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The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format.

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."

— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month



That quote deserves to be in stone.


If we use 50 sculptors we can get it done in less than 20 minutes!


Oh man, that was a good one! Do kids these days even know about that book?


Probably not. Hell I've never even read the book. Instead I learned through experience and observation then later learning about the book and a summation of it :)


I do! (I'm 23, 18 months into my first professional engineering gig)


It should be required reading and I have it prominently displayed on my desk at work.




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