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Naming, but not in the way you think.

Programming Software Development Machine Learning Learning Philosophy What Is the Hardest Thing in Software Development? Naming, but not in the way you think. Denilson Nastacio 14 min read · Dec 28, 2022 -- 37 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Our knowledge represents a minute portion of reality. Names are the visible portion of that knowledge. Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” One is a real problem; the other is a problem of defining reality. A misbehaving cache algorithm compromises t

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