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I always call it "death by a thousand cuts".

• kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
  The cuts are all O(1). Nothing to worry about.
  • slavik81 8y ago
    Software Engineer: After a week of hard work, I halved the runtime of our program for all possible inputs! Computer Scientist: That's too bad. All that work and nothing to show for it.
    • hinkley 8y ago
      In my Google interview, toward the end of the day I told the guy who I really didn’t want to work with anyway: What’s the hardest thing about software development? Removing the constant time overhead factors from performance critical code. He didn’t like that answer. But I had kinda already decided he was an asshole.