They're hard problems for a reason …

I quoted this once before [1], but it bears repeating:

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

I got hit with one of those issues today, and it wasn't naming a thing, or an off-by-one error. It'a amazing how much time can be wasted by omitting a single command …

[1] /boston/2011/11/28.1

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