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"You should call it entropy [...] nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage." John Von Neumann to Claude Shannon (
by nestorD 6y ago
"You should call it entropy [...] nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage." John Von Neumann to Claude Shannon
(also why there is clearly of market for the concept of dynamic entropy: https://xkcd.com/2318/ https://xkcd.com/2318/ )
- sqrt17 6y ago"Software Entropy" sounds so much more scientific and general than "avoid stringly typed code" BTW, "stringly typed" has been in use for exactly the behavior to avoid for maybe 10 years now https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped