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shadowfox on July 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advice to young programmers

> My only advice, to all programmers, is to print the following and stick it in a place where you can see it everyday: “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton

I am curious as to the reasoning here. Why are these 2 the only hard problems in computer science?

haberman on July 24, 2011 [–]

They aren't: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2798475 I don't know if the person being quoted was being serious about this, but do not listen to anyone who repeats this quote intending for it to be taken seriously.

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