Hyrum’s Law from a Data Science perspective

Learning about SWE’s best practices

The Law

“With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody.”

This statement originated when a comment was added to some C++ code and it literally broke the test of another implementer-contributor. This is non-expected obviously and shows the influence of (a priori neutral) changes on …

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