Simon Willison’s Weblog

5th July 2007

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

— Phil Karlton

Posted 5th July 2007 at 12:46 am

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This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 5th July 2007.

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