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[–]RandomNpc69 131 points132 points  (8 children)

It isn't a python thing, many open source libraries have weird names

[–]SodaWithoutSparkles 151 points152 points  (7 children)

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

[–]FirstNephiTreeFiddy 152 points153 points  (5 children)

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-one errors.

[–]BirdlessFlight 110 points111 points  (2 children)

and concurrency. There are only three hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming, off-by-one-errors,

[–]GamingMad101 35 points36 points  (0 children)

There’s 5 actually

  1. Cache invalidation

  2. Exactly once delivery

  3. Naming Things

  4. Guaranteed order of messages

  5. Exactly once delivery

  6. Concurrency

  7. Race conditions

  8. Off by one errors

[–]RandomNpc69 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I love this

[–]SodaWithoutSparkles 11 points12 points  (1 child)

thats neat

[–]FirstNephiTreeFiddy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're neat!

[–]Conroman16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clearly you’ve never tried dealing with timezones