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Who are you to say that this doesn't matter for someone's development? This thread reads like you're trying to convince yourself that you don't need to understa

by jgg 16y ago

Who are you to say that this doesn't matter for someone's development? This thread reads like you're trying to convince yourself that you don't need to understand this stuff.

amichail 16y ago
I've taken quite a lot of university math courses. Not much is helpful for what I do in my development. In fact, not even the algorithms courses I've taken are all that helpful since most of the hard stuff is already done for you in libraries/frameworks.
- jgg 16y ago
  to what I do in my development. What I pointed out above is that there are people who do this stuff in their development. (-: It seems like we're caught in this cycle where every 2 or 3 years, a new framework comes out that everybody rushes to embrace. Someone is writing the code to build these frameworks, and I guarantee you someone had to worry about what made their algorithm O(n^2) instead of O(log(n)) I think the reason you're being downvoted though, isn't because you simply pointed out that some people don't need to know this stuff, because (although somewhat pointless to state), that's true. Rather, I think the problem was when you said Mathematics gets way more attention than it deserves in computing Because you made no attempt to back it up, producing only evidence of your particular situation.
  - amichail 16y ago
    It seems like we're caught in this cycle where every 2 or 3 years, a new framework comes out that everybody rushes to embrace. Someone is writing the code to build these frameworks, and I guarantee you someone had to worry about what made their algorithm O(n^2) instead of O(log(n)) The number of people working on difficult libraries/frameworks is rather small compared to the total number of developers.
    - Psyonic 16y ago
      Many of those people read this site, however.
- tkahn6 16y ago
  Do you not do anything algorithmic in your line of work?

by jgg 16y ago

Who are you to say that this doesn't matter for someone's development? This thread reads like you're trying to convince yourself that you don't need to understand this stuff.

amichail 16y ago

I've taken quite a lot of university math courses. Not much is helpful for what I do in my development. In fact, not even the algorithms courses I've taken are all that helpful since most of the hard stuff is already done for you in libraries/frameworks.

jgg 16y ago
to what I do in my development. What I pointed out above is that there are people who do this stuff in their development. (-: It seems like we're caught in this cycle where every 2 or 3 years, a new framework comes out that everybody rushes to embrace. Someone is writing the code to build these frameworks, and I guarantee you someone had to worry about what made their algorithm O(n^2) instead of O(log(n)) I think the reason you're being downvoted though, isn't because you simply pointed out that some people don't need to know this stuff, because (although somewhat pointless to state), that's true. Rather, I think the problem was when you said Mathematics gets way more attention than it deserves in computing Because you made no attempt to back it up, producing only evidence of your particular situation.
- amichail 16y ago
  It seems like we're caught in this cycle where every 2 or 3 years, a new framework comes out that everybody rushes to embrace. Someone is writing the code to build these frameworks, and I guarantee you someone had to worry about what made their algorithm O(n^2) instead of O(log(n)) The number of people working on difficult libraries/frameworks is rather small compared to the total number of developers.
  - Psyonic 16y ago
    Many of those people read this site, however.
tkahn6 16y ago
Do you not do anything algorithmic in your line of work?