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Well, Phil Karlton said that "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things".

Some people list off-by-one errors as the third hardest thing.



I think the joke is: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science; cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors".


Whats the joke? The hard things are:

0) cache invalidation

1) naming things

2) off by one errors

Looks like he counted right to me.

EDIT: fixed newlines


[ "cache invalidation", "naming things", "off by one errors"].length != 2




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