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mcnyyesterday at 9:54 AM3 repliesview on HN

For today's lucky ten thousand, the joke is that

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors.


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tmtvlyesterday at 1:02 PM

I thought there were 3 difficult problems: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off by one errors. concurrency

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baklazanyesterday at 9:56 AM

Why do people say that, when the number one hardest problem is making good abstractions?

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latexryesterday at 11:32 AM

You explained one thing but introduced another needing explanation.

https://xkcd.com/1053/