In programming, the rule of least power is a design principle that "suggests choosing the least powerful [computer] language suitable for a given purpose"...

platform. In a 2007 blog post, Atwood proposed the following rule related to the rule of least power, calling it Atwood's law: "Any application that can be...

Minimum viable product Perfect is the enemy of good Progressive disclosure Satisficing Rule of least power Keep it simple, stupid Wabi-sabi Gangarz, Mike...

Slackware Linux Chartjunk List of software development philosophies Reduced instruction set computing Rule of least power There's more than one way to do...

low number of large files. Slack space Rule of least power Universal Turing machine Denning, Peter (January 2003). "Overhead". Encyclopedia of Computer...

In regression analysis, least squares is a parameter estimation method in which the sum of the squares of the residuals (a residual being the difference...

Postel's law Rule of least power SEMAT Separation of concerns Separation of mechanism and policy Single source of truth (SSOT) Single version of the truth...

ultimately arbitrary modeling assumptions. In software development, the rule of least power argues the correct programming language to use is the one that is...

Pareto principle 80:20 rule Rule of least power Software bloat Unix philosophy Wirth's law Worse is better Zawinski's law of software envelopment GreenBrowser...

Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance (i.e., whether such powers...

80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes...

Carson's rule. It is a useful approximation, but setting the arbitrary definition of occupied bandwidth at 98% of the power still means that the power outside...

difference ... is that, under the rule of law, the law is preeminent and can serve as a check against the abuse of power. Under rule by law, the law is a mere...

The Power of 10 Rules were created in 2006 by Gerard J. Holzmann of the NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software. The rules are intended to eliminate...

manifestation not of a normal distribution curve, but of a power law curve. (Regarding the Law of Least Effort, see William James, The Principles of Psychology...

serving as norms of the logical structure of valid arguments. If an argument with true premises follows a rule of inference then the conclusion cannot be...

culture, the 1% rule is a general rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an Internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively...

"Power play" is a sporting term used to describe a period of play where one team has a numerical advantage in players, usually due to a rule violation...

Ministry of Defence and the Navy headquarters, still suffered power outages on 29 April despite the general restoration of the electricity supply. At least seven...

kratos 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy...

"Rule, Britannia!" United States Army performance "Rule, Britannia!" Phonograph cylinder recorded by Albert Farrington in 1914 for Edison Records Problems...

"power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the...

least nominally) multiparty elections, but the existing practices or balance of political power effectively prevent the opposition from winning power...

The least developed countries (LDCs) are developing countries listed by the United Nations that exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development...

constitution or other basis for the rule of law. The structure is autocratic, with all power concentrated in the hands of the supreme leader and his clerical...

rights such as freedom of religion, or countries in which the government and the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free elections...

'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting from 1858 to 1947. It is also called Crown rule...

reduce the power (and the finances) of the retired emperors. Even after the Jōkyū War, the cloistered rule system continued to exist, at least formally...

multiplying a base raised to one power times the same base raised to another power, the powers add. Extending this rule to the power zero gives b 0 × b n = b...

active or former military officer will be asked to seize power as a last resort to end the rule of a worse government, though it is not necessarily the case...