3 ms·
The thing is though that you don't really deal with this in your day to day life, and when you do, even with a few CS candidates on staff, you're going to hire
by eksemplar 10y ago
The thing is though that you don't really deal with this in your day to day life, and when you do, even with a few CS candidates on staff, you're going to hire a consultant with a Ph.D. in the field.
Of course I may be environmentally damaged from never having worked with someone who was self taught.
- jacobsenscott 10y agoI deal with this stuff regularly, but not daily. I'm sort of the go to guy on the team when things start to feel CS'y. It isn't PhD level stuff.
- schrodinger 10y agoI don't think that's entirely true. It comes up pretty often. You may not be doing formal proofs but it's helpful to have a thorough understanding as it helps guide intuition around scaling your product (e.g. how a database query will scale with more users). It should influence your design early on rather than be something requiring a PHD consultant later on