Contents tagged “KISS”

There are 3 contents with this tag:

1. 

   Joel Spolsky

   Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

   • 13th March 2020
   • KISS, software

   When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.

2. How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer

   • 19th April 2019
   • KISS
   • 10 webmentions

   Experienced plane pilot and software developer Gregory Travis explains in details what led to Boeing 737 Max recent disasters in this long article: How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer.

3. 

   Tim Berners-Lee

   The Rule of Least Power

   • 4th January 2019
   • KISS, W3C

   Computer Science in the 1960s through 1980s spent a lot of effort making languages that were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful.

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