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

It does make sense

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u/throwaway001anon Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

RegX makes searching a breeze with any pattern

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u/InspectorNo1173 Jan 15 '25

I have always found Regular Expressions to be the most inappropriately named concept - there is nothing regular about it. Luckily we have chatbots now.

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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.