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Thinkie: Extrapolate Further

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Kent Beck
May 28, 2024
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Pattern: You’re trying to predict the consequences of a trend.

Transformation: Extrapolate further than other people, further than seems reasonable.

I learned this Thinkie watching Bill Joy (Sun founder) talk about processor performance when I was a wee engineer at Tektronix. 32-bit processors had just appeared, with awesome performance. Intel & Motorola …

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