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| author | Dave Kerr <dwmkerr@gmail.com> | 2018-10-03 21:12:36 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-03 21:12:36 +0800 |
| commit | 839b51ce767d3e485c47a3bd27e9caf719bcb318 (patch) | |
| tree | bf182aad5545d3d0269cc78522ac10d79090e26c | |
| parent | 244f590e758899ec356afb4fe92b5b5497b3112e (diff) | |
| parent | 6b796500da85a471d70baa79848ded39700c3604 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #8 from dwmkerr/feat/hofstadters-law
feat: add hofstadter's law. closes #7.
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Laws, Theories, Patterns and Ideas that all developers should know about! * [Introduction](#introduction) * [The Laws](#the-laws) * [⭐⭐ Conway's Law](#-conways-law) + * [⭐ Hofstadter's Law](#-hofstadters-law) * [⭐⭐⭐ The Unix Philosophy](#-the-unix-philosophy) * [⭐The Spotify Model](#the-spotify-model) @@ -32,6 +33,14 @@ This law suggests that the technical boundaries of a system will reflect the str See also: 'The Spotify Model'. +### ⭐ Hofstadter's Law + +[Hofstadter's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law) + +> It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. + +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. + ### ⭐⭐⭐ The Unix Philosophy [The Unix Philosophy on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) |