Mathematics:
1. Everything you thought you knew about the fundamental structure of the universe before will only make you ashamed.
2. It's all just vanity
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#22Hate to break it to the HN crowd, but for most subjects there are really more than two things you need to know. This article is nonsense.
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#24Dentistry: 1. Everybody hates Dentists. 2. Dentists hate everybody.
#1 is true until you have unbearable pain and he gets rid of it for u
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#25Computer Science: 1. Your code always does exactly what you tell it to and never anything more. 2. You probably don't actually know what you're telling it to do.
3. It's never a bug in the compiler (except when it is).
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#26Hate to break it to the HN crowd, but for most subjects there are really more than two things you need to know. This article is nonsense.
I don't think you read the article. It is only saying that there are two things you need to know in jest. If you looked at the article, you'd see that many fields, such as CS, have more than one set of "two things" that you need to know.
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#27"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton http://people.famouswhy.com/phil_karlton/ (NB: "hard" things) While we're being flippant: Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another level of indirection - except for the problem of too many levels of indirection
and off-by-one errors
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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#28Statistics:
Central Limit Theorem
Law of Large Numbers.
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#29The answers in the article are pretty cool, except for the programming ones. Just like in programming, people try to get cute with conciseness and end up making pretty unfunny jokes. Once you have heard the word "idiot" in anything having to do with programming, subsequent mentions are yawners. But the whole idea of narrowing down everything to two core principles is awesome; so +1 from me, certainly.
I suspect that "the answers are pretty cool, except for " is itself the most common reaction.
No, there were a few about topics such as economics (one each?), and a ton about programming.
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#30Startups:
Your product must be something people want.
Your product must be something you can make.