Post #511427
2026-02-17 15:19 UTC
As professionals it should embarrass ourselves calling an author "Uncle Bob".
I've always found it ridiculous.
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@das_g@chaos.social 2026-02-17 20:00
There are only¹ 5 hard problems in #computerScience and #programming: cache invalidation¹, naming things¹, naming people², people's names³, off-by-1 errors¹⁺⁴, and self-reference⁴. ___ ¹ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html ² see post above by @arialdo ³ https://kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names & & https://mas.to/@yournameisinvalid ⁴ see this post; but also the halting problem and whatnot