There are two problems in computer science:

[jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz]

@mweagle and 3. out-by-one errors

[androcat@toot.cat]

@mweagle
Sometimes combined : "Our torment nexus is too slow. Let's optimize it to fuck people up much faster"

[mweagle@hachyderm.io]

@codinghorror “I could code that in a weekend. How hard could it be?”

[reinald@nrw.social]

@mweagle and off by one problems. And how to name things.

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@mweagle

“Every program could be made at least slightly shorter, and every program has at least one bug. By induction, we can assume that every program can be reduced to a single instruction that doesn’t work.”

[raymierussell@mastodon.scot]

@mweagle
The two problems in computer science are:

1) Ones
2) Zeros

[chris__martin@functional.cafe]

@mweagle There are only two things a computer can do: Reshape data, and discard data

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@mweagle
3. Off-by-one errors

[tg@indieweb.social]

@mweagle @kfdm and what to name a variable

[fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de]

@mweagle
3. the problem that (1) and (2) are not mutually exclusive. "if we did this better, we could not _quite_ do this…"