Taco Bell Programming

theodp writes "Think outside the box? Nah, think outside the bun. Ted Dziuba argues there's a programming lesson to be learned from observing how Taco Bell manages to pull down $1.9 billion by mixing-and-matching roughly eight ingredients: 'The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. This is the opposite of a trend of nonsense called DevOps, where system administrators start writing unit tests and other things to help the developers warm up to them — Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions.'"

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Re:Code reuse, junk food example?

[yndrd1984]

... And yes, stringing commands together is, empirically, news to many people, because I keep finding people who can't do it.

I don't know how to do surgery, but that doesn't mean basic surgical technique is news.

This is what's in my newspaper:

Politician is corrupt!
Priest molested kids!
People celebrate holiday!
Religious people ignore science!
Flood plain gets flooded!

If that counts as news, so does this.