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:8 keywords?

[arth1]

Yes. Look at your English as an example, with its thousands of keywords. Reduce your vocabulary and you'll have fewer defects in what you produce.

I'm uncertain whether you just made an ironic reference to Minitrue, or believe the drivel you just posted.

More nuances in your vocabulary might have let us know.