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PaulDavisThe1styesterday at 5:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

You've forgotten the 3rd canonical hard problem: off by one errors.


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tmtvltoday at 2:51 AM

concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors.

CodeMageyesterday at 11:40 PM

The original joke deliberately says "two hard problems" and then lists three. The "off by one errors" being the 3rd problem is the punchline of the joke.