Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You have Two Problems” joke?

Posted by webmaven on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Example:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Machine Learning.” Now they have two problems.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by hactually on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:03AM (#13028737)

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by grimoald on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:47AM (#13029114)

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Java". Now they have a ProblemFactory.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by jjoe on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:22AM (#13029508)

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll go Ask HN." Now they have HN problems.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by cleverprogramer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:53AM (#13029642)

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Regex.” Now they have two problems.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by unlikelymordant on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:27AM (#13028608)

I realise this is not what you asked, but I found some interesting history on the topic: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by proactivesvcs on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:35AM (#13028865)

I feel Friedl's book[1] on regex definitely deserves a shout-out. Strangely easy to read and I found his methods made it easy to learn, too.

[1] http://regex.info/book.html

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by bradcomp on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:22AM (#13028354)

Definitely this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1171/

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by dwd on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:37AM (#13028870)

or https://xkcd.com/927/

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by brudgers on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:03PM (#13031309)

A programmer has an AI interface problem. The programmer decides to use natural language processing. Now they have two problems.

[I am probably biased] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692180#12692500

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by proactivesvcs on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:33AM (#13028856)

I tend to use: s/two/at least two/

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by danschumann on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:59AM (#13029153)

I had money problems so I started a business :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by kristianp on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:08AM (#13028539)

Javascript?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by balazsdavid987 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:05AM (#13029440)

Please elaborate.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You h... by k__ on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:42AM (#13030005)

They mean, JavaScript solved all their problems.

It's one of those anti-jokes. ;)

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