← Back to context Comment by tyre 10 hours ago You must not have invalidated your cache since a third thing. 4 comments tyre Reply reactordev 10 hours ago Obviously there are more but the original joke circa 1999 was this. Made Y2K even more exciting. dleary 9 hours ago > 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. cryptonector 7 hours ago > 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. 1 reply →
reactordev 10 hours ago Obviously there are more but the original joke circa 1999 was this. Made Y2K even more exciting. dleary 9 hours ago > 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. cryptonector 7 hours ago > 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. 1 reply →
dleary 9 hours ago > 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. cryptonector 7 hours ago > 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. 1 reply →
cryptonector 7 hours ago > 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. 1 reply →
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.
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