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"There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny" which I've seen credited to Phillip Scott Bowden Which is a reference
by tialaramex 2y ago
"There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny" which I've seen credited to Phillip Scott Bowden
Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"
But there is also "Two hard problems in distributed systems: Exactly-once delivery, guaranteed order of messages, and exactly-once delivery".
- rramadass 2y agoI need more of these ...
- fuzztester 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476
- Swannie 2y ago> Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" It's just as funny today as when I first heard it in 2002/2003... to which my professor at the time would add: "But really, naming things is colouring. And cache invalidation is colouring. So really there's only one problem in computer science, colouring and counting... which doesn't sound so hard after all".
- fuzztester 2y agoI made a UDP joke once. You may get it.
- gpderetta 2y agoI'm sorry, but this joke is out of order here!
- fuzztester 2y agoHeh. Are you sure you got it? ;)