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#12"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton http://people.famouswhy.com/phil_karlton/ (NB: "hard" things)
While we're being flippant: Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another level of indirection - except for the problem of too many levels of indirection
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#13Electrical engineering:
1. Maxwell's equations
2. Information theory
It's amazing how much you can derive from just these two things, if you're willing to do a lot of math.
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#14The answers in the article are pretty cool, except for the programming ones. Just like in programming, people try to get cute with conciseness and end up making pretty unfunny jokes. Once you have heard the word "idiot" in anything having to do with programming, subsequent mentions are yawners.
But the whole idea of narrowing down everything to two core principles is awesome; so +1 from me, certainly.
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#15Set Theory:
1. ZF
2. C
or
Set Theory:
1. Everything is a set
2. Not everything is a set
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#16Computer Science: 1. Your code always does exactly what you tell it to and never anything more. 2. You probably don't actually know what you're telling it to do.
An alternative 2. Solve big problems by breaking them into smaller problems.
I actually like that one a lot more.
Alternatively: 2. Underneath, everything is a graphing problem
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#17Two things about minimalistic programming:
1. lambdas 2. there is no second thing
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#18Wow - this is awesome and uber old, good find....adding to it.
Two things about Social Media:
1. Content is King
2. Everyone's an Social Media expert :P
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#19The answers in the article are pretty cool, except for the programming ones. Just like in programming, people try to get cute with conciseness and end up making pretty unfunny jokes. Once you have heard the word "idiot" in anything having to do with programming, subsequent mentions are yawners. But the whole idea of narrowing down everything to two core principles is awesome; so +1 from me, certainly.
I suspect that "the answers are pretty cool, except for " is itself the most common reaction.
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#20Set Theory: 1. ZF 2. C or Set Theory: 1. Everything is a set 2. Not everything is a set
Axiom of Choice has been on shaky ground for the past 50 years and really only continues it's existence through inertia. The second one has some deep wisdom in it though :)