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by mohaps 2712 days ago
Interviewer: What are your strengths? Me: Cache Invalidation and Naming Things.

We paused and looked at each other for a minute and then we burst out laughing.

3 comments

Perfect response would have been "are those your top three?"
It’s funny... I got the joke reading it, but I don’t think I would have gotten the joke had I heard it spoken in an interview. Is that just me?
That is fantastic.

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, and naming things." -- Phil Karlton

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

I think this version is better, sadly no idea who to attribute it to ... ?