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> There's that famous quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.", and, sure, it's a bit ironical, but the
by AdieuToLogic 1y ago
> There's that famous quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.", and, sure, it's a bit ironical, but there's some truth in there.
The joke form of this quote goes along the lines of:
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
:-D
- dcminter 1y agoI rather like the snark of: there's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny. Apparently⁰ by Philip Scott Bowden¹ ⁰ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html ¹ https://x.com/pbowden/status/468855097879830528 https://x.com/pbowden/status/468855097879830528
- aorth 1y agoJust remembered another one: there are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. :)
- AndrewOMartin 1y agoWhich leads to > I don't see what's so hard about DNS, it's just cache invalidation and naming things.
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoMy favorite variation only really works in text: There are three hard problems in Computer Science: 1) Cache invalidation 2) Naming th3) Concurings rency 4) Off-by-one errors