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Indoor enthusiast. Co-founder of http://stackoverflow.com  and http://discourse.org . Abyss domain expert. Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Bay Area, CA
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    Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 31 Aug 2014

    There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

    2:29 AM - 31 Aug 2014
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    45 replies 2,319 retweets 3,067 likes
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      2. Marcos Kirsch‏ @marcoskirsch 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror ... Phil Karlton? Tim Bray? 140 character limit makes accidental plagiarism too easy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Tim Bray‏Verified account @timbray 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @marcoskirsch

        @marcoskirsch @codinghorror Phil said it, I reported it, someone else added on the “off-by-one”.

        3 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
      4. Leon Bambrick‏ @secretGeek 7 Jan 2015
        Replying to @timbray

        Leon Bambrick Retweeted Leon Bambrick

        @timbray @marcoskirsch @codinghorror Hmm. I added the "off-by-one" bit. 5 long years ago.https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868 …

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        Leon Bambrick @secretGeek
        There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
        1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes
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      2. allo‏ @_allo 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror There are two types of people: 1) Those, who start their indices with 1 1) Those, who start their indices with 0. #mathvscs

        1 reply 7 retweets 37 likes
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      2. Paul Girard‏ @Girarduino 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

        2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
      3. Roy Tinker‏ @Roy_Tinker 8 Oct 2015
        Replying to @Girarduino

        @Girarduino @codinghorror ... and those who didn't expect a ternary joke.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      1. andy‏ @thatandyrose 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror and weird concurrency bugs.

        0 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
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      2. Jim Adcock‏ @dlairman 2 Sep 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror Amongst the things that are hard in computer science, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. brixius111‏ @Brixius111 13 Nov 2015
        Replying to @dlairman

        @dlairman @codinghorror we have the Spanish Inquisition at my work, its called code review.

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Darren Evans‏ @Seefer 31 Dec 2016
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        Truth spoken. Let us also not forget...pic.twitter.com/pV5Ri8YKv8

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      2. andy‏ @thatandyrose 31 Aug 2014
        Replying to @codinghorror

        @codinghorror and weird concurrency bugs

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Vincent‏ @vswarte 20 Feb 2017
        Replying to @thatandyrose @codinghorror

        race conditions?

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      4. Eric De Wildt‏ @dewildte 10 Jul 2017
        Replying to @vswarte @NotLiable and

        conditions Race

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Shawn Miller‏ @smiller 31 Aug 2014
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        @codinghorror you forgot rampant mysogiony

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      1.  👨🏼‍💻Romain‏ @romainmuller 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @codinghorror @or9ob

        * and asynchronous callbacks.

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      1. Bart Smaalders‏ @BSmaalders 16 Jun 2017
        Replying to @codinghorror

        Last item is better known as 'off by on'

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