I think for people starting out - rule 5 isn't perhaps that obvious.

> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

If want to solve a problem - it's natural to think about logic flow and the code that implements that first and the data structures are an after thought, whereas Rule 5 is spot on.

Conputers are machines that transform an input to an output.

A good chunk of great advice is obvious things that people still fail to do.

That's why a collection of "obvious" things formulated in a convincing way by a person with big street cred is still useful and worth elevating.

Can't be but so obvious if the first comment I saw here was that the first two rules didn't seem so important. =)

Definitely not obvious to everybody.

You've got to elevate some obviously correct things, otherwise social media will fill the void with nonobviously incorrect things.

I'd call it more derivative than obvious.

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