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If brute force doesn’t work, you’re not using enough of it.

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. Off-by-one errors 0. Asynchronous callbacks 7. Buffer overflowA203FE11980018900000

"There are two hard problems in computer science: (1) We have only one joke, and (2) it's not even very funny."

Ah, but it’s an idempotent joke, so it’s funny no matter how many times you tell it!

Every tome I try to learn what idempotent means, it’s as though I’m starting from scratch.