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"Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time" That title is pure poetry. The post could have ended with "Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened." :^
by saint-loup 6y ago
"Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time"
That title is pure poetry. The post could have ended with "Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened." :^)
(reference to https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan)
- brucedawson 6y agoThanks - I was inordinately pleased with that title
- Sharlin 6y ago"How much time does it take to sort icons if nobody is there to see it?"
- segfaultbuserr 6y ago"If an algorithm runs in a machine and no output device is around to show it, does it make a computation?"
- saint-loup 6y agoMy thoughts exactly when I program Chrome, in headless mode and with no UI, to scroll and click on a button.