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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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What Makes Something a Cat?

The thing that unites all cats is the essence of the cat. And then you have the facts about any particular cat like this cat has orange fur, right? Those are the accidents. So these are the properties that an object has that it didn't have to have. It could have lacked those properties and still have been the kind of thing it is. Still could have been a cat.

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