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Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force."
Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS.
Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month and is often shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart objects".
Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
University of Texas in Austin
Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can send the identifier along with any needed variables to execute the query, this time without passing the full query document.
Production Ready GraphQL
Marc-Andre Giroux
Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic representation in mind, so it’s no surprise that it was uglier. There’s a whole realm of stewy brown foods from every cuisine on earth that look very disgusting in photos but taste amazing and that people have, for all of human history, loved to eat together. You don’t see them much on social media though.
Rootin' Tootin' Charcutin' - By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
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