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  Some people, when confronted with a problem,
  think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.”   
  Now they have two problems.
(Originally with "sed" instead of "regular expressions")



    Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think 
    "I know, I'll solve it with threads!"
    have Now problems. two they


There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:

    2. Exactly-once delivery
    1. Guaranteed order of messages
    2. Exactly-once delivery
Source: https://twitter.com/mathiasverraes/status/632260618599403520


I like.

> There are only two problems in computer science, naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.

I've got to say modern languages with foreach() have been amazing (makes me feel old when I consider a 20 year old widely used language 'modern').




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