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Notes

Loose, unpolished notes from my personal knowledge base. Mostly experimental, published early and revised over time.

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  1. Essential Complexity

    Brooks's distinction between essential and accidental complexity in software systems

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  2. Phronema

    Phronema as engineering judgment: mentorship vs dead rules

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  3. Premature Optimization

    Knuth's full quote on premature optimization and how the slogan gets misused

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  4. YAGNI

    YAGNI as engineering principle and when it becomes a thought-terminating cliché

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