alt Hacker NewsCalling them 'laws' is always a bit of a stretch. They are more like useful heuristics. The real engineering part is knowing exactly when to break them.
Calling them 'laws' is always a bit of a stretch. They are more like useful heuristics. The real engineering part is knowing exactly when to break them.
Especially since a lot of them are written in a tongue-in-cheek way. And many are contradictory.