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jacobkranz | 5 years ago

The two hardest problems a programmer faces:

1) what to name your variables

2) cache invalidation errors

3) off-by-one errors

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nl|5 years ago

> 1) what to name your variables

The canonical version of this is "naming things". It's more general than just variable names as anyone who has dealt with a thingAbstractFactoryFactory or the problem of generating unique names in a distributed environment will attest.