My first job was working at a company that made Palm pilot apps. We sold sales force automation software, and had to do lots of tricks to make it work in such

My first job was working at a company that made Palm pilot apps. We sold sales force automation software, and had to do lots of tricks to make it work in such low powered machines. Things like it was too difficult to sort a product file that has 200,000 items in it in real-time (E.g. to change from product codes to product description) so we had the server generate two lists each sorted and sent two over the gprs network to the devices. (Infrared connection to cellphone FTW!) As a young programmer this was the first time I was exposed to the concept of algorithmic complexity and the possibility of trading space for time. It blew my mind. Here I am 20 years later still coding and loving every day of it