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sixstringtheory | 1 year ago

>> variable names (a hard part of computer science)

>Naming is for software engineering, not CS.

I figured they were referencing the “two hard problems of computer science”, those two being naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.

Everybody knows the hardest problems in software engineering are assembling promo packets and building consensus on number of spaces per indent.

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nailer|1 year ago

‘Number of spaces per indent’ begs the question: why spaces? The proper indentation character is the corn emoji.