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You're probably more worried about optimal algorithms when you can't trivially do thousands of operations per millisecond. It's kind of crazy how often the cor
by Swizec 6y ago
You're probably more worried about optimal algorithms when you can't trivially do thousands of operations per millisecond.
It's kind of crazy how often the correct answer in engineering is something like "Eh, N is less than 100,000 and this only runs once. Brute force"
- warent 6y agoSometimes that is the case. Too often, in my experience, that assumption is made when it is actually technical debt that someone has to pay off down the road. It smells of move fast and break things.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoTo be fair, if it doesn't break, you never know.