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Derivative work
Copyright law defines a Derivative Work, as a work that is based on (or derived from) one or more already existing works. It is copyrightable if it includes what the copyright law calls an Original Work of Authorship. Derivative Works, also known as “new versions”, include such…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
LSD is less harmful than alcohol
The law did not ban the use of LSD in research, but now researchers would be required to receive approval from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which would later become the DEA. Following suit, the UN classified several mind-altering drugs as Schedule I in 1971…
Brook's law
Fred Brooks' law
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
Constructor Theory
Constructor theory
The basic principle of constructor theory is that all fundamental laws of nature are expressible entirely in terms of statements of which tasks (i.e. classes of physical transformations) are possible and which are impossible, and why. This is a new mode of explanation, intended…
Epigrams On Programming
The law of the excluded muddle
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Kant's philosophy was true: the intellect dictates its laws to nature
When Kant says "the intellect does not derive its laws from nature, but dictates them to her" he states the full truth as regards the idea of nature which we form (nature = world, as notion, that is, as error) but which is merely the synthesis of a host of errors of the…
International System Of Units - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Lavoisier, Gauss and coherent units
The metric system was developed from 1791 onwards by a group of scientists that was commissioned by the Assemblée nationale and Louis XVI of France to create a unified and rational system of measures.[9] The group, which included Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (the "father of modern…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Un paese pieno di leggi e privo di regole
Però la guida criminale è uno degli innumerevoli comportamenti che detesta di questo paese affollato di leggi e privo di regole, maleducato, indifferente, volgare, vigliacco. L’idea che faccia potenzialmente parte anche della propria natura lo riempie di un rancore sordo, lo…
Technology Radar July 2014 | Thoughtworks
Conway's law
Conway's Law, that states that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations", keeps appearing in unexpected places. One of the key tenets of the Agile Manifesto is "People over…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy
Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional. [..] The problem is that the world doesn’t work that way. A species doesn’t feel a need first (the function) and then…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
What counts as a topic depends on the application
Exactly what one chooses to regard as topics in any particular application will vary according to the needs of the application, the nature of the information, and the uses to which the topic map will be put: In a thesaurus, topics would represent terms, meanings, and domains…