Hacker Laws
Hacker Laws for coders.
Related
Conway's Law
Any piece of software reflects the organisational communication structure that produced it.
Related to product design and the observed impact of communication structures on software output.
- a tight-knit group with coordinated behaviour creates software with entwined features and code.
- a more relaxed, decentralised team, meanwhile, creates more modular software.
Dunbar's Number
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.
Related to Metcalfe's and Lindy's Effect.
Eagleson's Law
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Gall's Law
Gall's Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked. If you want to build a complex system that works, build a simpler system first, and then improve it over time.
Knuth's Law
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
Lindy Effect
The Lindy Effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy.
Metcalfe's Law
According to Metcalfe's Law the value of a network is proportional to the square of its number of nodes. Computers, servers, and even users can be end nodes.
Miller's Number
Miller's Number is a cognitive limit to the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory. The number is 7 ± 2.
Moore's law
Moore's law is a term used to refer to the observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
Postel's Law
Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept
Price's Law
Price's Law states that the square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work.
Wirth's Law
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster