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Matthew Martin

@mistersql

Sep 22, 2019

I said something like this in an interview. I wasn't hired.

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Ólafur Waage

@olafurw

Sep 22, 2019

When you finish a PhD in computer science they take you to a special room and show you that you can implement end user software with mostly O(n^2) algorithms and nobody notices. I'm posting this at great physical risk to myself and my family. twitter.com/tom_forsyth/st…

Matthew Martin

@mistersql

Sep 22, 2019

More specifically I said, the O notation number for an algorithm doesn't matter because 1- perf rarely matters 2- when it does you have to profile 3- it is something stupid like the OS doing culture checks on strings, not your choice of algorithm

JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

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Well if someone is writing shitty code and making something that should be O(log N) into O(N^2), it causes the computer to consume slightly more energy which causes slightly more carbon emissions which causes slightly more extinction level events. Nah really -- most of the

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