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As a senior/lead developer with years of broad experience you don't need to remember details of every algorithm in existence. But you should keep information sc
by imhoguy 7y ago
As a senior/lead developer with years of broad experience you don't need to remember details of every algorithm in existence. But you should keep information scrap in your head to guide you or your apprentice to relevant source of information.
"Hi <dev name>! I think we may need to optimize memory consumption of this distinct element counting code a bit; I remember there is some HyperLogLog algorithm which should help here... let's check how it goes... (reading Wikipedia page)[0]"
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog