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What if people bought cars like they buy computers

Monday, July 9th, 2007

General Motors doesn’t have a help line for people who don’t know
how to drive, because people don’t buy cars like they buy computers, but
imagine if they did….
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HelpLine: “General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?”
Customer: “I got in my car and closed the door and nothing happened!”
HelpLine: “Did you put the key in the ignition […]

A few laws of computer programming

Monday, July 9th, 2007

1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
3. If any program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
6. The value of a program is proportional […]


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