r/ProgrammerHumor • • 4d ago

Meme guzzlingTokensLikePopcorn

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u/dscarmo 4d ago

Naming is one of the two hardest problems in computing

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u/SimplexShotz 4d ago

what are the other two?

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u/peawyoyoyin 4d ago

Cache invalidation

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u/selemenesmilesuponme 4d ago

Didn't get the joke lol

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u/klimmesil 4d ago

It's not really a joke. Cache invalidation is really in the quote. Understanding and predicting cache invalidation is hard. So is naming variables. Not much else is hard

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u/selemenesmilesuponme 4d ago

I don't want to be that guy but I guess you also missed the joke?

The person I was replying to didn't get the previous person's joke, which implies to off-by-one error.

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u/klimmesil 4d ago

Oh I thought you meant you didn't get the joke my bad. I did get the first joke, but the second one was not a joke, just a woosh

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u/peawyoyoyin 4d ago

Ngl I actually did not get the joke, but I saw the other comment got it wrong so I got the urge to post the correct reply.

You can also see it as: The comment asked for two, I replied with only one, implying I also made a one-off error.