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List of eponymous laws — very cool Wikipedia page
- cperciva 18y agoI've been trying to get Percival's Law of Data Compression -- "Birds of a feather compress better together" -- more widely used, but so far it has only been picked up by one other author. Does anyone else here have similar "laws" that they think ought to be better known?
- fgimenez 18y agoHofstadter's law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." It should be considered one of the basic axioms of programming, maybe even engineering, although I'm just biased because it is an infinite (perhaps even strange) loop.
- aristus 18y agoThis is pretty nice. Having a tool named after you seems to me better than your name on some pile of stone. After all, things come and go, but Andre Ampere's name will always be current.
- aston 18y agoWe need more good puns here.