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“I can prove it to you - I bet when you saw this you thought it was going to be about passwords" Nope. My first thought was about hash tables and Git style ass
by mbrodersen 5y ago
“I can prove it to you - I bet when you saw this you thought it was going to be about passwords"
Nope. My first thought was about hash tables and Git style associative DB’s.
- some_furry 5y agoSo far two people have allegedly quoted this statement, but it never appears on my blog.
- mbrodersen 5y agoTrue. Not a direct quote. The claim that: "Programmers don’t understand hash functions" followed by a "most people" (i.e. not all) argument to back it up: "I can demonstrate this to most of the people that will read this with a single observation:" Is a straw man argument. I think that is what people react to. But yes you are right not a direct quote.