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Subject	make	state	has definition	have purpose	is a subtopic of	is a synonym of	formulate by	states	mean
80-20 rule		that 80% of the benefit can often be obtained with 20% of the work; the remaining 20% of the benefit then takes 80% of the work	A rule that states that 80% of the benefit can often be obtained with 20% of the work; the remaining 20% of the benefit then takes 80% of the work	to justify cutting less important requirements to significantly reduce costs	4.8 - Reviewing Requirements	Pareto principle
isa rule					2.5 - Organizing Classes Into Inheritance Hierarchies			that class A can only be a valid subclass of class B if it makes sense, in English, to say, "an A is a B"
Java order of operator precedence		that operators at the top take precedence over operators lower in the table. At the same level of the table, operators are evaluated from left to right. operators comments () [] Anything in parentheses, including array indexing, is evaluated first ++ -- ! Unary operators * / % Multiplicative operators + - Additive binary operators > >= < <= Relational comparison operators == != Identity comparison operators && Logical AND \ Logical OR ?: Ternary if-then-else = += *= -= /=/td> Assignment			The Basics of Java
law of conservation of bugs		the number of bugs remaining in a large system is proportional to the number of bugs already fixed			10.9 - Strategies for Testing Large Systems
Law of Demeter	incremental development much easier	only talk to your immediate friends			6.7 - The Delegation Pattern		a team from Northeastern University in Boston		that a method should only access data passed as arguments, linked via associations, or obtained via calls to operations on other neighbouring data in the context of software design

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