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grishka on Nov 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)

But what about naming things

dkersten on Nov 16, 2021 | [–]

Maybe the wrong thing was invalidated from the cache of hard things in computer science.

commandlinefan on Nov 16, 2021 | | [–]

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

tgv on Nov 16, 2021 | | [–]

Follows by symmetry. Proof is left as an exercise for the reader.

s_dev on Nov 16, 2021 | | [–]

Thats an off by one error which naturally is included in all CS laws.

bryanrasmussen on Nov 16, 2021 | [–]

naming things is a form of abstraction.

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