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> Calling binary search and mergesort implementations "broken" does the author no service with his argument. Very much on brand for the FAANG r/iamverysmart cr
by queuebert 4y ago
> Calling binary search and mergesort implementations "broken" does the author no service with his argument.
Very much on brand for the FAANG r/iamverysmart crowd though.
- Blackthorn 4y agoThis blog post predates r/iamverysmart. There was a way of talking and discourse in 2006 that this is very much as example of. One has to take things from the time they were written.
- moralestapia 4y agor/iamverysmart was created in response to a particular human behavior, not the other way around.
- _dain_ 4y agoWhat on Earth are you talking about? There's nothing "iamverysmart" about the blogpost at all. The guy literally cites an example where the code broke in production, it isn't an esoteric hairsplitting point at all.
- Jensson 4y agoThey tried to implement a standard algorithm themselves and failed. Doesn't mean that almost all binary searches are wrong. C++ standard library had a correct implemented binary search with more flexible signature when this article was written, they could just have used that one instead.
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