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Comment by tyre

10 hours ago

You must not have invalidated your cache since a third thing.

Obviously there are more but the original joke circa 1999 was this. Made Y2K even more exciting.

  • > but the original joke circa 1999 was this.

    No, the original joke, which GP is referring to, is “There are only two hard things in computer science. Naming things and cache invalidation.”

    It predates 1999 and the Y2K bug by a fair amount. I first saw it on Usenet in the early 90s, around 1994 I think.

    • > There are only two hard things in computer science. Naming things and cache invalidation.

      More like

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

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