BasilInc
Re:How to increase your surface area for luck
on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:54AM (#44680363)
On 4, it's already happened and been recorded. See https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/stacking-the-odds-cate...
Re:Stability by Design
on Friday May 09, 2025 @07:51AM (#43935788)
I like the term refuctoring for this
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:42AM (#42337707)
Brooks makes reference to this at some point in a later edition of the book, and about the confusion the word choice caused.
By accidental, he means "non-fundamental complexity". If you express a simple idea in a complex way, the accidental complexity of what you said will be high, because what you said was complex. But the essential complexity is low, because the idea is simple.
Anniversary edition, p182.
"... let us examine its difficulties. Following Aristotle, I divide them into essence - the difficulties inherent in the nature of the software - and accidents - those difficulties that today attends its production but that are not inherent"
Re:How Far Could the Sun Possibly Be?
on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:17AM (#39100480)
I'm unfamiliar with Anglo-Saxon used like this. Do you mean people from the US?