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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by snerbles on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:31PM (#15741992)
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

A blog entry on Brandolini's Law: https://real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2016/12/brandolinis-law...

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by ak39 on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:48PM (#15742117)
I think this could apply to the ratio of coding to debugging too.
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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by ghzkvhjk on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:11PM (#15743781)
What a coincidence. I copied this law to my collection of quotes, and the last entry was this:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

-Brian Kernighan

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