| ▲ | nine_k a day ago |
| > it's just a name, who cares This cannot be, naming things is one of the two canonical hard problems. |
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| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st a day ago | parent [-] |
| You've forgotten the 3rd canonical hard problem: off by one errors. |
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| ▲ | CodeMage a day ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors. |
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