having the right word for a concept you’ve been trying to understand is worth a month of trying to untangle things in your head
On a related note, it’s a programming cliche that 90% of development time is trying to think up the right names for things.
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”—Phil Karlton
I read this out of context and interpreted “naming things” so that it generalized cache invalidation. So I wanted to complain that it’s only one thing.
On a related note, it’s a programming cliche that 90% of development time is trying to think up the right names for things.
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”—Phil Karlton
I read this out of context and interpreted “naming things” so that it generalized cache invalidation. So I wanted to complain that it’s only one thing.