If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're Doing it Wrong

Re:If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're ... by leoc on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:40AM (#6416936)

Fred Brooks, maybe?

> The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

But as someone on Ward's Wiki said http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway ,

> The corollary to this is that if you plan to throw one away, you will end up throwing away two.

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Re:If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're ... by dllthomas on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:52AM (#6418057)

Yeah, I've seen that one too. Could very well be memetically related (through Knuth or not).

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