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Add something absurd I used one night as an example of CS overcomplication

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of things most hackers take for granted.
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@ -6056,6 +6056,25 @@ President: "Hah!! The computer is wrong. My father died over twenty
Computer: Your mother's husband died 22 years ago. Your father just
landed a twelve pound bass.
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A computer science student and a practical hacker are discussing problems
the computer science student has run in to.
CS Student: I have this singularly linked tail-queued list and I'm trying
to make it O(1) to go backwards an item, instead of O(n)...
What's the best way to go about that? Should I just use a
cached hash of each item and put it into a sorted lookup
table, and cache the hash of the last item in the current
queue entry and then go to its place in the hash table and
get the pointer value from there?
Hacker: No, you should add an item to the structure named 'prev' and
make it point to the previous item.
CS Student: But we already have a structure element with that identifier
and structure elements must have unique names within that
scope!
Hacker: So call it 'previous'.
And then the CS Student was enlightened.
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A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
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A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate