In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.
> In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.
There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
Two, and only two?
Well:
There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 4) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking
Also: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
You have almost understood the joke.
two is off-by-one from three btw
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> In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo.
There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
Two, and only two?
Well:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806257Also: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
You have almost understood the joke.
two is off-by-one from three btw
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