thomblake comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 02 September 2011 01:37:13PM 2 points [-]

having the right word for a concept you've been trying to understand is worth a month of trying to untangle things in your head

On a related note, it's a programming cliche that 90% of development time is trying to think up the right names for things.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 September 2011 02:38:48PM 0 points [-]

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 September 2011 11:13:17PM *  0 points [-]

I read this out of context and interpreted "naming things" so that it generalized cache invalidation. So I wanted to complain that it's only one thing.