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Reuters wrote:

IBM said it has shrunk Watson to the size of three stacked pizza boxes from its original size of a master bedroom.

Kent Sharkey wrote:

I lost out on a job because I expressed those feelings in a recent interview

mark merrens wrote:

You need to learn about the bite-your-tongue pattern.

Indeed, this enthusiasm for pattern mining has tended to obscure some key questions that remain largely unanswered, such as

    the design process question: Do patterns form an effective way of exchanging design knowledge? and
    the design product question: Do patterns help us to create designs that are easier to understand and maintain?

Neither question seems to have received much consideration from design pattern enthusiasts.