Analogy of the month
From Steve Yegge, on why code size is a problem:
Going back to our crazed Tetris game, imagine that you have a tool that lets you manage huge Tetris screens that are hundreds of stories high. In this scenario, stacking the pieces isn’t a problem, so there’s no need to be able to eliminate pieces. This is the cultural problem: they don’t realize they’re not actually playing the right game anymore.
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I'm a postdoc in software engineering at the University of British Columbia. 
