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by andrewstuart2 3172 days ago
Aw, you didn't quote the best one from that page.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

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Haha, didn't see that you beat me to it.

It's worth including the third saying on the page just for completeness:

"There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery"