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Well, Phil Karlton said that "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things". Some people list off-by-one errors as

by jamessb 13y ago

Well, Phil Karlton said that "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things". Some people list off-by-one errors as the third hardest thing.

randlet 13y ago
I think the joke is: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science; cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors".
- gizmo686 13y ago
  Whats the joke? The hard things are: 0) cache invalidation 1) naming things 2) off by one errors Looks like he counted right to me. EDIT: fixed newlines
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  - oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
    [ "cache invalidation", "naming things", "off by one errors"].length != 2
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- gizmo686 13y ago
  Whats the joke? The hard things are: 0) cache invalidation 1) naming things 2) off by one errors Looks like he counted right to me.