ra’s Twitter Archive—№ 33,400

software is an industry built on 80% solutions
On twitter.com ♻️ 34 Retweets ❤️ 63 Favorites 2017 Sep 4 Mood +1 🙂

…in reply to @ra
the effect of combining things feels multiplicative, so that two 80% solutions are actually a 64% solution because 0.8 ⨉ 0.8 = 0.64
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 5 Retweets ❤️ 10 Favorites 2017 Sep 4 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @ra
it catches up to you. an 80% OS running an 80% virtual machine communicating with an 80% graphics library via an 80% language comes to ~%41
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 33 Retweets ❤️ 61 Favorites 2017 Sep 4 Mood 0

…in reply to @ra
the completeness of your stack can be approximated as Cⁿ, where C is the avg completeness of each component, n is the number of components
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 4 Retweets ❤️ 9 Favorites 2017 Sep 4 Mood 0

…in reply to @ra
long story short, interoping with generic C# methods from Clojure is buggy as hell and its frustrating
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 2 Retweets ❤️ 20 Favorites 2017 Sep 4 Mood -6 🙁