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Comment by rmunn

3 days ago

Cache invalidation, one of the two hard problems in computer science.

I'm sure most people here already knows the joke, but for the lucky 10,000, here's the full joke:

There are only two hard problems in computer science. Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

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rmunn

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onestay42  3 days ago

And, for those who don't know who the lucky 10,000 are, https://xkcd.com/1053/

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