How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2014)

Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by thrownblown on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:06PM (#14598600)

Two biggest issues in programming: naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.

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Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by baal80spam on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:12PM (#14598668)

Let's not forget tabs vs spaces.

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Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by mastermindxs on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:20PM (#14598718)

And my pay raise now that I've switched to using spaces.

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Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by surement on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:48PM (#14598908)

This is a joke conflating causation and correlation with regards to this article: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...

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Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by irrational on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:13PM (#14598672)

So... slide 38, except you mangled the quote.

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Re:How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2... by probably_wrong on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:23PM (#14598742)

Actually, I think the slide mangled the quote - I've often seen "off by one error" as the punchline, and found at least one post going back to 2010 with that variation: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

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