Simple Systems Have Less Downtime

Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by klysm on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:30PM (#22478442)

I find it mildly annoying when people state such nuggets of knowledge as “laws”. Sure, it’s generally true that you can’t go for the most sophisticated and powerful system at the first go, but sometimes the minimal working system is complex no? Anyway, it’s certainly not a “law” of the universe.

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by mdonahoe on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:07PM (#22478723)

Klysm's Law:

Nuggets of knowledge are not laws. Referring to them as such annoys Klysm.

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by Smoosh on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:23PM (#22478835)

An aphorism being called a law is called a klysmism.

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by sev0 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:44PM (#22478550)

"Law" can also be used for pithy statements that don't have to be particularly rigorous. C.f. Murphy's Law.

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by K0SM0S on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:14PM (#22478787)

This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-)

More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they're really empirical by essence — observations.

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by stygiansonic on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:44PM (#22478543)

It’s a colloquialism, like Moore’s law.

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