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Sharif
Sharif

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What is the most challenging thing for programmers?

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FJones

I think Fowler summarizes this quite nicely, but my personal favourite trifecta is:

  • Naming things
  • Estimating things
  • Invalidating caches for things
  • Off-by-one error things
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Doug Schwartz

Estimating. How long to do x? And what does "finished" mean?