Mastodawn

🐈 naming things is often called "the easiest problem in computer science" because you can just call it x or i or whatever

@lovegame cache invalidation is nearly as easy cause you can just always clear the cache before every read.

@lovegame anyone have a solution for off by one errors? :P

@demofox @lovegame I don't think they really exist

[edit: picture added because that's probably too obscure for anyone to get without it]

@mcc @demofox @lovegame or, sometimes, add one

@demofox @lovegame i have 1 solution, no wait that's 0 solutions

Cant be off by one if you downgrade nullpointer exceptions too nullpointer warnings :))

@demofox @lovegame add or subtract one :)

@demofox @lovegame This is actually trivial. If you add two you won't be off by one.

@demofox @lovegame don't count that high

@demofox @lovegame make every array one element longer than you think you need to

@demofox @lovegame arguably off-by-one problems is the only class of problems that's relevant to tech jobs that also get taught in school