Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You have Two Problems” joke?

by webmaven • 10 years ago

15 14 10 years ago

Example:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Machine Learning.” Now they have two problems.

bradcomp• 10 years ago

dwd• 10 years ago

kristianp• 10 years ago

Javascript?

balazsdavid987• 10 years ago

Please elaborate.

k__• 10 years ago

They mean, JavaScript solved all their problems.

It's one of those anti-jokes. ;)

unlikelymordant• 10 years ago

I realise this is not what you asked, but I found some interesting history on the topic: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

proactivesvcs2• 10 years ago

I feel Friedl's book[1] on regex definitely deserves a shout-out. Strangely easy to read and I found his methods made it easy to learn, too.

hactually• 10 years ago

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.

proactivesvcs2• 10 years ago

I tend to use: s/two/at least two/

grimoald• 10 years ago

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Java". Now they have a ProblemFactory.

danschumann• 10 years ago

I had money problems so I started a business :)

jjoe• 10 years ago

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll go Ask HN." Now they have HN problems.

cleverprogramer• 10 years ago

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Regex.” Now they have two problems.

brudgers• 10 years ago

A programmer has an AI interface problem. The programmer decides to use natural language processing. Now they have two problems.

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