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0 pointsPaulDavisThe1st5d ago0 comments

You've forgotten the 3rd canonical hard problem: off by one errors.

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The original joke deliberately says "two hard problems" and then lists three. The "off by one errors" being the 3rd problem is the punchline of the joke.

tmtvl4d ago

concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors.

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