{"id":28180,"date":"2020-02-19T17:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28180"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:50:47","slug":"developer-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/developer-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Kerr<\/a> (via Gus Mueller<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For example: Amdahl’s Law<\/a> about optimization, Brooks’ Law<\/a> about staffing, and Tesler’s Law<\/a> about complexity, along with principles such as the Liskov Substitution Principle<\/a>, YAGNI<\/a>, and The Fallacies of Distributed Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A possible addition: the Lindy Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2020-03-27): Ryan Reeves<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some great “laws.”<\/p>

Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”<\/p>

Betteridge’s Law: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’”<\/p>

Shirky Principle: “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-07-30): See also: Laws for hackers to live by<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2021-03-02): See also: 10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Update (2022-03-09): Tim Sommer<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

In this post I am going to share my collection, interpretation and thoughts on the most famous and most used laws in Software Development.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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