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Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0 by jsingleton on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:26PM (#11987735)
The naming is really confusing, but then naming things is hard. As Phil Karlton famously said:

  There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
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Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0 by recursive on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:59PM (#11988021)
I don't know where it came from, but I've always preferred this variant:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

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Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0 by jsingleton on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:54AM (#11992945)
I actually used that version in my recent book. You can see it in this section [0] of the first chapter (which is free to read, with no sign-up) that tries to explain the confusing naming.

[0] https://www.packtpub.com/packtlib/book/Application%20Develop...

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Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0 by LeonB on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:33PM (#11990052)
Source: https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868 ;)
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Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0 by jsingleton on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:29AM (#11992059)
That tweet dates from 2010 and the same quote is on this page [0] dated 2009. Of course, it's possible Martin updated it after the initial publication. I'm not saying you copied it either, it could have been independently created.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

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