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Just like Niklaus Wirth's quote about how people used to call him, or the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. Those are the ones that make me wish peopl

Just like Niklaus Wirth's quote about how people used to call him, or the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. Those are the ones that make me wish people knew just enough Computer Science to get them :)

tialaramex 2y ago
"There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny" which I've seen credited to Phillip Scott Bowden Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" But there is also "Two hard problems in distributed systems: Exactly-once delivery, guaranteed order of messages, and exactly-once delivery".
- rramadass 2y ago
  I need more of these ...
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476
- Swannie 2y ago
  > Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" It's just as funny today as when I first heard it in 2002/2003... to which my professor at the time would add: "But really, naming things is colouring. And cache invalidation is colouring. So really there's only one problem in computer science, colouring and counting... which doesn't sound so hard after all".
- fuzztester 2y ago
  I made a UDP joke once. You may get it.
  - gpderetta 2y ago
    I'm sorry, but this joke is out of order here!
    - fuzztester 2y ago
      Heh. Are you sure you got it? ;)
fuzztester 2y ago
I didn't see your comment before I posted mine, because I was reading the thread linearly, but anyway, I'll expand upon yours: 1: >Niklaus Wirth's quote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054371 2: >the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. those who understand binary and those who don't.

tialaramex 2y ago

"There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny" which I've seen credited to Phillip Scott Bowden Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" But there is also "Two hard problems in distributed systems: Exactly-once delivery, guaranteed order of messages, and exactly-once delivery".

rramadass 2y ago
I need more of these ...
- fuzztester 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054476
Swannie 2y ago
> Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" It's just as funny today as when I first heard it in 2002/2003... to which my professor at the time would add: "But really, naming things is colouring. And cache invalidation is colouring. So really there's only one problem in computer science, colouring and counting... which doesn't sound so hard after all".
fuzztester 2y ago
I made a UDP joke once. You may get it.
- gpderetta 2y ago
  I'm sorry, but this joke is out of order here!
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    Heh. Are you sure you got it? ;)

fuzztester 2y ago

I didn't see your comment before I posted mine, because I was reading the thread linearly, but anyway, I'll expand upon yours: 1: >Niklaus Wirth's quote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054371 2: >the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. those who understand binary and those who don't.