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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by gniv on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:15AM (#20614818)
“To go left, turn right.”

I encountered this idea in a different context, and I too thought it was insightful/funny:

(On some divided highways) “Left turn from right lane”

The jughandle would make as good a symbol for a philosophical movement as the yin-yang.

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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by m12k on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:41AM (#20615015)
A variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.
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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by lordfoo on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:33PM (#20616948)
Also, Chesterton's Fence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

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