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There are four hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.


FWIW, I've always heard the joke as "There are two hard problems....", which I find a little funnier because it starts the same as the original quote by Phil Karlton and just adds the joke at the end.


haha, thanks. I haven't heard of any of these. Sounds like a good opening for a presentation.


I know it as

naming things, cache invalidation and concurrency


There's five, you forgot regexes.




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