410.0 — Naming Things Is a Linguistic Problem First

The two hard things in computer science are cache invalidation and naming things.

Mar 23, 2025

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The two hard things in computer science are cache invalidation and naming things. Cache invalidation is hard because of distributed systems theory. Naming things is hard because of linguistics, ontol…

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