← Back to context Comment by DavidSJ 13 hours ago In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo. 6 comments DavidSJ Reply throw0101a 13 hours ago > In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. zapkyeskrill 11 hours ago Two, and only two? throw0101a 2 hours ago Well: There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 4) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking * https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html amoss 11 hours ago You have almost understood the joke. floydnoel 5 hours ago two is off-by-one from three btw motionlessveloc 11 hours ago [dead]
throw0101a 13 hours ago > In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. zapkyeskrill 11 hours ago Two, and only two? throw0101a 2 hours ago Well: There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 4) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking * https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html amoss 11 hours ago You have almost understood the joke. floydnoel 5 hours ago two is off-by-one from three btw motionlessveloc 11 hours ago [dead]
zapkyeskrill 11 hours ago Two, and only two? throw0101a 2 hours ago Well: There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 4) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking * https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html amoss 11 hours ago You have almost understood the joke. floydnoel 5 hours ago two is off-by-one from three btw motionlessveloc 11 hours ago [dead]
throw0101a 2 hours ago Well: There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 4) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking * https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
> In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.
There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
Two, and only two?
Well:
* https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
You have almost understood the joke.
two is off-by-one from three btw
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