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> it's just a name, who cares

This cannot be, naming things is one of the two canonical hard problems.



You've forgotten the 3rd canonical hard problem: off by one errors.


The original joke deliberately says "two hard problems" and then lists three. The "off by one errors" being the 3rd problem is the punchline of the joke.


concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors.




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