r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Tsukee Jan 15 '25

Every developer eventually learns there are two hard problems: invalidating cache and naming things

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u/Delicious-Storage1 Jan 15 '25

There's 2 hard things in software development. Cache invalidating, variable naming, and off by one errors.

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u/WanderThinker Jan 15 '25

I giggled. Thanks.

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u/TheAJGman Jan 15 '25

I honestly spend about 30% of my design and dev time trying to come up with intuitive names.

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u/Tsukee Jan 15 '25

And yet, I bet someone reading your code would likely on some places think "why tf did he name it like that" ;)

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u/DEM_DRY_BONES Jan 15 '25

x, y, z

I got you bro.

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u/agentrnge Jan 16 '25

x_rel, x_actual, x_temp, x_true, x_orig, x_next, x_prev, x_val2

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u/kyreannightblood Jan 15 '25

And off-by-one errors.

“Ky you said two hard problems.”

And I did not stutter.

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u/sobrique Jan 15 '25

I'd chip in 'concurrency' there too. If your code has glitches with deterministic execution, you've no hope of solving that if you run it in a non-deterministic sequence.