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> it's just a name, who cares This cannot be, naming things is one of the two canonical hard problems.

• PaulDavisThe1st 4mo ago
  You've forgotten the 3rd canonical hard problem: off by one errors.
  • CodeMage 4mo ago
    The original joke deliberately says "two hard problems" and then lists three. The "off by one errors" being the 3rd problem is the punchline of the joke.
  • tmtvl 4mo ago
    concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors.