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                     They're hard problems for a reason …

I quoted this once before [1], but it bears repeating:

> There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation,
> naming things, and off-by-one errors.
>

I got hit with one of those issues today, and it wasn't naming a thing, or an
off-by-one error. It'a amazing how much time can be wasted by omitting a
single command …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2011/11/28.1

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