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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by abrax3141 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:44AM (#22026745)
Hmm. I wonder if he got that from Simon while he (JB) was at CMU. He (HS) once said to me, jokingly, I think, “One makes an observation, two makes a generalization, three makes a proof”.
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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by DataWorker on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:21PM (#22027500)
Sounds good but is wrong. Sometimes you need more than 3. Maybe 3 is for those who need to move fast and break things though.
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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by abrax3141 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:43AM (#22042181)
Yeah. I think he (HS) was joking. He had a Nobel, and (co)invented AI. I’m pretty sure he knew what a proof is.
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