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Never once has knowing about the performance of linked lists or hashmaps been necessary to fix an API issue. 99% of your API issues will be "this doesn't work f
by throwaway9475 10y ago
Never once has knowing about the performance of linked lists or hashmaps been necessary to fix an API issue. 99% of your API issues will be "this doesn't work for X reason", not "this API response is slow because weren't using X instead of Y data structure".
- khedoros1 10y agoYou sound like you've worked with significantly different code than I have. Your "never once" is my "almost always", and my "X reason" is often because I'm working with an immature, unreleased library developed by another team at my employer.
- throwaway9475 10y agoWhat's more likely: that everyone needs to know intimate details about basic data structures or that the world is held together with duct tape and Perl and 95% of code is written by people not in Silicon Valley who need it to just work?