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by LEARAX 2227 days ago
"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1].

I don't think these questions are very fun.

[1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...

2 comments

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

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

OBOE = Off-by-one error.

also I don't see what's so bad about naming things - it's only bad if they get _mis_named and then you need to guess what they really are.