5) Communication between nodes should be communication between independent actors. Each message should do one complete thing, and there shouldn't need to be a sequence of coupled messages.
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13) If you don't completely understand your code and the semantics of all the code it depends on, your code is wrong.
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14) Deterministic beats heuristic. Heuristics are evil and should only be used where determinism is infeasible, such as in cache reclamation.
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17) Referential transparency is honesty and stability. Lack of referential transparency and other forms of disingenuousness are some of the world's big problems. Only deviate from referential transparency if absolutely necessary.
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18) Responsibilities should be clearly separated. This applies from kernel modules through network citizens.
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19) Dualities must be faced head-on and analyzed differently at different layers. Statically typed vs. dynamically typed, imperative vs. functional, code vs. data, and effectful vs. pure can all be a matter of perspective, and all relevant perspectives must have coherent answers
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20) One hundred lines of simplicity is better than twenty lines of complexity. It's not enough for an abstraction to reduce code duplication; it must actually make the code simpler.
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21) Prefer mechanical simplicity to mathematical simplicity. Often mechanical simplicity and mathematical simplicity go together.
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22) The Law of Leaky Abstractions is a lie; abstract airtightly. If your abstractions are leaking, it's not due to some law of the universe; you just suck at abstracting. Usually, you didn't specify the abstraction narrowly enough.
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23) Some cliches are repeated because they are true; others must be repeated because they are not.
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