Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You have Two Problems” joke?

15 points·webmaven··14 comments

Example:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Machine Learning.” Now they have two problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Java". Now they have a ProblemFactory.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll go Ask HN." Now they have HN problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Regex.” Now they have two problems.

I realise this is not what you asked, but I found some interesting history on the topic: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

I feel Friedl's book[1] on regex definitely deserves a shout-out. Strangely easy to read and I found his methods made it easy to learn, too.

A programmer has an AI interface problem. The programmer decides to use natural language processing. Now they have two problems.

I tend to use: s/two/at least two/

I had money problems so I started a business :)

Javascript?

Please elaborate.

They mean, JavaScript solved all their problems.

It's one of those anti-jokes. ;)