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by giu 1683 days ago
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and to know when not to use abstraction.
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But what about naming things
Maybe the wrong thing was invalidated from the cache of hard things in computer science.
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
Follows by symmetry. Proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
Thats an off by one error which naturally is included in all CS laws.
naming things is a form of abstraction.