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> It’s said that there are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. I've always heard the joke as "there are only two ha
by johnsonjo 7y ago
> It’s said that there are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.
I've always heard the joke as "there are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors."
EDIT: I didn't read all the way to the end of the article before posting this, so of course it has the original joke at the bottom haha.
"There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
- Leon Bambrick
- alidlo 7y agoI include a quote at the end of most articles, and I actually included that one at the end of this one, too. here's the tweet where it came from: https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E7269997868&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmartinfowler.com%2Fbliki%2FTwoHardThings.html https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868?ref_src=tws...