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Doesn't that just move the problems to more "naming things" though?

• ithkuil 4y ago
  Yes, naming things is intimately tied to cache invalidation. That's why the two things are together in that maxim. Not sure why people think it has to so with naming variables or functions...
  • codetrotter 4y ago
    > Not sure why people think it has to so with naming variables or functions... I think it’s open to interpretation. And I think it is valid to apply the saying to naming of variables, functions, and many other things. See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-karlton-ever-said-there-are-only-two-hard-things-in-computer-science https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-... Links to https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/ https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/ Links to a bunch of places. None of the ones I looked at seem to confidently say what was originally meant by the saying. Either way, regardless of what the guy meant when he originally used to say it, it’s allowed to apply a saying to new situations.
  • CommitSyn 4y ago
    > That's why the two things are together in that maxim. I think you missed the joke.
    • onlypositive 4y ago
      Did they?
      • ithkuil 4y ago
        I _think_ it became a joke, accidentally.
      • CommitSyn 4y ago
        > There are two hard problems in IT: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. That's three things with an off-by-one error.