{"id":8,"date":"2009-11-04T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.don.nz.net\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:45:39","slug":"dons-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;s law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s an unexpected way to implement a widely used protocol or process, someone out there has done so.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a lot like the <em>original<\/em> Murphy&#8217;s Law, &#8220;If there is any way to do it wrong, he will&#8221;, attributed to Edward Murphy, an engineer on the rocket sled tests carried out in the 1950s, in discovering that all of the accelerometers on the a test subject had been wired backwards, requiring a re-run of an expensive test.<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;s law isn&#8217;t just a re-statement of Murphy&#8217;s Law, or even Sod&#8217;s Law (&#8220;if it can go wrong, it will&#8221;).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a recognition that there are a lot of implementations of stuff out there,\u00a0 some by people <em>who don&#8217;t think the way you do. <\/em> (Or I do.\u00a0 Or, in some cases, like any sane individual.) And the way those implementations work, especially under exception conditions, can vary enormously.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is: &#8220;If there&#8217;s an unexpected way to implement a widely used protocol or process, someone out there has done so.&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s a lot like the original Murphy&#8217;s Law, &#8220;If there is any way to do it wrong, he will&#8221;, attributed to Edward Murphy, an engineer on the rocket sled tests carried out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,21,23,30],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perversity","tag-ego","tag-murphys-law","tag-perversity","tag-sods-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.nz.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}