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Reuters wrote:

IBM said it has shrunk Watson to the size of three stacked pizza boxes from its original size of a master bedroom.

Kent Sharkey wrote:

I lost out on a job because I expressed those feelings in a recent interview

mark merrens wrote:

You need to learn about the bite-your-tongue pattern.

Indeed, this enthusiasm for pattern mining has tended to obscure some key questions that remain largely unanswered, such as

    the design process question: Do patterns form an effective way of exchanging design knowledge? and
    the design product question: Do patterns help us to create designs that are easier to understand and maintain?

Neither question seems to have received much consideration from design pattern enthusiasts.

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The most disastrous thing about programming — to pick one of the 10 most disastrous things about programming — there's a very popular movement based on pattern languages. When Christopher Alexander first did that in architecture, he was looking at 2,000 years of ways that humans have made themselves comfortable. So there was actually something to it, because he was dealing with a genome that hasn't changed that much. I think he got a few hundred valuable patterns out of it. But the bug in trying to do that in computing is the assumption that we know anything at all about programming. So extracting patterns from today's programming practices ennobles them in a way they don't deserve. It actually gives them more cachet.