- Jan 2024
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akkartik.name akkartik.name
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Division of labor is an extremely mature state for a society. Aiming prematurely for it is counterproductive. Rather than try to imitate more mature domains, start from scratch and see what this domain ends up needing."
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- Jul 2023
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Local file Local file
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It costs be-tween ½ and 2 times as much to build amodule with a clean interface that iswell-designed for your system as to justwrite some code
I believe it, but I would have liked to have seen a reference for this claim.
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only a small fraction of the features of each component, and your program con-sumes 10 or 100 times the hardware resources of a fully custom program, butyou write 10% or 1% of the code you would have written 30 years ago.
You use only a small fraction of the features of each component, and your program consumes 10 or 100 times the hardware resources of a fully custom program, but you write 10% or 1% of the code you would have written 30 years ago.
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- Apr 2022
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dl.acm.org dl.acm.org
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a complex problem should not ~be regarded immediately in terms of computer instruc- tions, bits, and "logical words," but rather in terms and entities natural to the problem itself, abstracted in some suitable sense
Likewise, a program being written (especially one being written anew instead of by adapting an existing one) should be written in terms of capabilities from the underlying system that make sense for the needs of the greater program, and not by programming directly against the platform APIs. In the former case, you end up with a readable program (that is also often portable), whereas in the latter case, what you end up writing amounts to a bunch of glue between existing system component that may not work together in any comprehensible way to half the audience who is not already intimately familiar with the platform in question, but no less capable of making meaningful contributions.
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www.research-collection.ethz.ch www.research-collection.ethz.chuntitled1
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Ihavelearnttoabandonsuchattemptsofadaptationfairlyquickly,andtostartthedesignofanewprogramaccordingtomyownideasandstandards
I have learnt to abandon such attempts of adaptation fairly quickly, and to start the design of a new program according to my own ideas and standards
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- Jun 2021
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www.mutuallyhuman.com www.mutuallyhuman.com
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Rather than write new tooling we decided to take advantage of tooling we had in place for our unit tests. Our unit tests already used FactoryBot, a test data generation library, for building up test datasets for a variety of test scenarios. Plus, we had already built up a nice suite of helpers that we coud re-use. By using tools and libraries already a part of the backend technology’s ecosystem we were able to spend less time building additional tooling. We had less code to maintain because of this and more time to work on solving our customer’s pain points.
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