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      1. software is an industry built on 80% solutions
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      the effect of combining things feels multiplicative, so that two 80% solutions are actually a 64% solution because 0.8 ⨉ 0.8 = 0.64
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    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
    1. …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
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        long story short, interoping with generic C# methods from Clojure is buggy as hell and its frustrating