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Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company by tpeo on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:33PM (#15153876)
Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.
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Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company by thrownblown on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:00PM (#15153978)
Q: what are the two greatest challenges to software engineering?

A: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

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Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company by athom on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:36AM (#15154298)
Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but...

You don't want to read my code.

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Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company by ccvannorman on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:13PM (#15154024)
Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit
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