{"id":267,"date":"2005-01-19T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=267"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"motherhood-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Motherhood principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, I forgot to say that I thought Jamie Lewis&#8217; idea of a &#8220;motherhood test&#8221; for architectural principles was amazingly sensible.  By this he means something cannot be an architectural principle if a reasonable person cannot suggest and defend a contrary position.  Imagine how many <em>bits will be saved<\/em> by removing principles that fail this test from slide presentations and planning documents on a world-wide basis!  Go forward, my ecological hero!<\/p>\n<p>Parenthetically, this is a wonderful example of something which is unambiguously a principle, rather than a law.  It doesn&#39;t represent a real-world dynamic bounding a system design.  It is more a statement of fundamental intellectual hygiene &#8211; like Einstein&#39;s principle that <em>things should be made as simple as possible<\/em> &#8211; <em>but no simpler<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, I forgot to say that I thought Jamie Lewis&#8217; idea of a &#8220;motherhood test&#8221; for architectural principles was amazingly sensible. By this he means something cannot be an architectural principle if a reasonable person cannot suggest and defend a contrary position. Imagine how many bits will be saved by removing principles that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motherhood principle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}