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		keanzu on Nov 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be ... Had to look this up: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. The principle is also known as Postel's law, after Jon Postel, who wrote in an early specification of TCP" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

brigandish on Nov 10, 2019 [–]

It reminds me of Conquest's 1st law:

> Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

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