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Remember that naming is one of the hardest things in software engineering.

• mrep 9y ago
  That and off by one errors ;)
  • endymi0n 9y ago
    Concurrency You forgot 2) Cache invalidation and 3)
    • mrep 9y ago
      Haha, you are correct, but there are some other hard problems that I now remember after some quick googling since i forgot all the related jokes :) There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny. Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
    • tracker1 9y ago
      The two most difficult things in software development. * naming things * cache invalidation * off by one errors
      • taneq 9y ago
        It's always worth having it stated in the canonical form. :)
        • evanmoran 9y ago
          The fifth hardest thing is figuring out the canonical form :)
    • pdpi 9y ago
      I’d risk saying we’re all intensely aware how hard Cache invalidation is, right now
      • endymi0n 9y ago
        well, we can only speculate...
  • deleted 9y ago
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