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Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes invariants easier to enforce and it makes operations (queries and transforms) easier.
Ergonomic APIs, Channel Invariants, and Data Views
Hillel Wayne
From the point of view of relationshps which appears in the design, it is more *useful* to call the kitchen sink a “center” than a whole. If I call it a whole, it then exists in my mind as an isolated object. But if I call it a center, it already tells me something extra; it creates a sense, in my mind, of the way the sink is going to work *in* the kitchen […] It makes the sink feel more like a thing which radiates out, extends beyon its own boundaries, and takes its part in the kitchen as a whole.
Wholeness and Centers
Jack Cheng
Roy Simmons coined that phrase and I like it a lot. “Most artists can’t draw.”
We need to add something: “But all artists can see.”
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