Patterns d'Universe

Because the world is not as it seems.

• Pattern pattern
  
  • = recognizing patterns, tangible and virtual
  • = categorization (e.g. linguistics, music genres, software modelling)
  • 'birds of a feather'
  • Theory of Everything
  • pattern combination (kaleidescope effect)
  • the 'paper mache' principle
• No pattern pattern
• Antipatterns
  • = models which seem good, but fail to identify the fundamental principles or issues
  • socialism
  • micromanagement
  • drills / overtraining
  • spoonfeeding
• Unipatternism
  
  • = one size fits all
  • Javascript: everything is an array
  • Lisp: everything is a function
  • Theory of everything
  • Everything is a nail if your only tool is a hammer
  • All you need is love
• Charity begets iniquity
  • = giving too much, receiver has made no investment
  • nice guys finish last
  • selling yourself short
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • infidelity
• Life
  • = reproduction / continuous renewal
  • = individual birth and death
  • animals, plants, ideas, languages
  • evolution
• Perception vs reality
  
  • I think, therefore I am
  • Allegory of the Cave
  • Self-reinforcement through research / study
  • If a tree falls in the forest... ?
  • art
• Resource saturation
  
  • = infinite demand, finite supply
  • waterholes support as much life as they can
  • projects take as long as they are allocated
  • nobody ever has any money
  • RAM usage
  • scarcity in economics
• Invisible hand
  • = decentralised forces with selfish / uncommon goals
  • = co-operation without coercion
  • free markets
  • open source
  • cathedral vs the bizarre
  • language evolution
  • sum of parts > whole
  • rainfall creates rivers
  • self-organisation
  • slow and steady
• Visible hand
  • = decentralised forces with a common goal
  • Linux
  • Islam
• Specialisation
  
  • facial recognition
  • facial recognition in sheep
  • tuning musical instruments
  • skateboarding
  • compounding
• Means vs ends
  • 'trying to be different is a negative motive'
  • arguing over shitty specifics
  • paralysis by analysis
  • nature finds a way
  • micromanagement
  • nature rewards results
  • language acquisition
• Win/lose mentality
  • competition
  • war
  • jealousy
  • chess
• Curvature
  • south of the south pole
  • before time began
• Recursive dependency
  • dictionary
  • bootstrapping
  • this statement cannot be proved to be true
  • self-awareness / consciousness
  • 'catch 22'
  • self-participation
  • government spending
  • google bids on adwords
  • ASX shares listed on ASX
  • poverty trap
  • failure trap
• Institutional mentality
  
  • = don't recognise institutions as artificial
  • 9 - 5
  • religion
  • school rules
• Same space, different place
  
  • socio/economic differences
  • differences in cognitive capacity
  • different world views
  • perception vs reality
  • contingence
• mutual distrust
• • recruitment
  • dating
  • trading
  • secret societies / gangs
  • credit
• amutual distrust
  • greylisting email / phone
  • meritocracies
  • receptionists
  • crushes / stalking
• Practice to practise
  • theory vs implementation
  • OSi vs TCP/IP
  • train vs race
  • prescriptive vs descriptive grammars
  • Pure OO vs Java
• Projection / Reciprocation / Reflection
  
  • karma
  • difficult people attract each other
  • what you say speaks only about you
  • shared opinions of each other (positive or negative)
  • cause and effect
• Contingence / equivalence
  • human languages
  • programming languages
  • many competing products
  • # of religions / telecoms / political parties / OSs stablises
  • language acquisition
  • travel experience
• Contradictions
  • what happens when you die?
  • what happened before time began?
  • what would it be like if the universe didn't exist?
• Cause and Effect
  • the chicken and the egg
• Virtualisation
  
  • Turing machines
• Emperor has new clothes
  • FUD
  • lambada
  • infalsifiability
  • faith
  • obedience
• Grass is greener
  • poverty / wealth cycle
• FUD
  • = fails to recognise contigence
• Knock on
  • = from interdependence, recognised or not
• Pipelining
  • multiple language acquisition
  • business development
  • multitasking
• Awareness of inadequacy / inferiority
  
  • Unsolicited advice
  • verbosity
  • diminutives
  • no vandalism on the Trevi fountain
  • FUD?
  • snobs?
• Walled gardens
• Halo effect
• Mixed solutions
  • mixed economies
  • balancing agility & discipline
• Too many patches
• money worshipping
• Going with the flow
  
  • Flooding of the Nile
• Bottom up vs top-down
  
  • processes
  • creative work
• Token gestures
• Demerits
  • = escalating punishment
  • yellow card / red card
  • drivers license points
  • emotional bank-account
• Scarcity mentality
  
  • hoarding money
  • the sky is falling in
• Disfunctional functionality / politicking
  • = power struggle
  • = individual agendas
  • = survives regardless - cannot afford to fail
  • organisations, clubs, families, individuals
• Power sharing
  
  • democracy / parliaments
  • capitalism
• 'Honest' Abuse
  
  • spam
  • spamvertising?
  • individual agendas
  • own applecart
• Pursuit
  • = motivation required
  • it is easier to rise than to remain on top
  • reward based discipline
  • greyhound racing
• Size and innovation / agility
  • Athens, Israel, Medina, Elizabethian England
  • Open source
  • Halfbacks
• Centripital balance
  
  • = movement is required for stability
  • economics and cash flow
  • balancing on a bike
  • perpetual stimulation and frustration
  • depression
• Mis-selfdiagnosis
  • = prescribing an ability to yourself which you don't have
  • = inability to recognise you don't have said ability
  • = can sometimes be effective
  • dictators
  • 'God's gift to women'
  • popularity, intelligence, empathy, singing / dancing ability
• Self prophesizing
• Corner cases
  • = problems caused by minorities
  • = consume excessive resources
  • software defects
  • difficult customers
  • psychopaths
• Rise and fall
  • = victim of your own success
  • empires
  • feast/famine cycles
  • boom/bust cycles
  • humans?
• Fear of success
  • = people who prefer (thrive on?) failure
  • white-line fever
  • victims of iniquity
  • debugging addiction
• Easy in principle
  • dieting
  • saving
  • business
  • language acquisition
• Overengineering
  • most software
  • coro drive tidal flow
  • products with no market
  • killing a fly with a hammer
  • paradox of choice
• The value-add
  • medical tourism in singapore
  • "do you want fries with that?"
• Preference for the exotic
• Exponential fun
  • = the better you get the more fun it is
  • dancing, skating, mtb, languages, music
  • upper bounds?
• Lost in translation
  • how to skateboard / dance
  • 'teaching a fish to walk'
• Short/long cycles
  • inbox, quarterly planning
  • garbage collection
• Trap pattern
  • = longer it takes the harder it is
  • = more energy used the harder it is
  • poverty
  • creating passive income
  • business break-even
  • cycling being dropped, hill climbs
• Turing Temptation
  • emacs OS
  • netbeans OS
  • virtualisation
• Compounding
  • Demand creates demand
  • Fun creates fun
• Markets
  • = limited choice
  • = value determined by demand and supply
  • fear and greed
  • high-stakes markets
  • fiduciary markets
  • dance partners
  • dating
• Proxy
  • domain name registrars
  • central and public banks
  • fund managers
  • affiliates / agents / brokers
  • arbitrage / reselling
  • secondary markets, e.g. share market (?)
• Bootstrapping
  • car batteries
  • language acquisition
• Creative destruction
  • bankruptcy
  • 1000 flowers
  • mutations
  • free radicals
  • trial and error
• Chaos
• Self-organisation
  • free markets
• Cat and mouse
  • unions
  • dating
• Lead follower
  • DJs
• Offline data
  • local street maps
  • google gears
  • mirrors
• sprawl
  • city growth
  • software growth