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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton Long a favorite saying of mine, one for which I couldn't find a satisfactory URL. There is also a variation on this that says there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

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