Merge pull request #72 from rrix/patch-1

Add Hutber's Law

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 > It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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-> Douglas Hofstadter
+> (Douglas Hofstadter)
 
 You might hear this law referred to when looking at estimates for how long something will take. It seems a truism in software development that we tend to not be very good at accurately estimating how long something will take to deliver.
 
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 - [Reading List: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](#reading-list)
 
+### Hutber's Law
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+[Hutber's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutber%27s_law)
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+> Improvement means deterioration.
+>
+> ([Patrick Hutber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Hutber))
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+This law suggests that improvements to a system will lead to deterioration in other parts, or it will hide other deterioration, leading overall to a degredation from the current state of the system.
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+For example, a decrease in response latency for a particular end-point could cause increased throughput and capacity issues further along in a request flow, effecting an entirely different sub-system.
+
 ### The Hype Cycle & Amara's Law
 
 [The Hype Cycle on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle)