Just found maggieappleton.com/eponymous-laws π
to consider:
- Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
- Goodhart's Law
- Amdahl's Law
Moore's Law is missing, which seems like _the_ eponymous law, so maybe I'm missing something about more weighty social context
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or it was just forgotten amongst the others!
Maybe none of these come from the _programming_ tradition exactly, though I feel like Amdahl's Law comes up a lot.
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Thanks for the suggestions π
Moore's law indeed felt a bit obvious to include. Was going for the weird and offbeat ones from programming land :D

