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Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum, and experience and institutional knowledge can account for many orders of magnitude of performance. A trivial example/re
by fcatalan 2y ago
Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum, and experience and institutional knowledge can account for many orders of magnitude of performance. A trivial example/recent anecdote:
The other day, two of our juniors came to see me, they had been stumped by the wrong result of a very complex query for 2 hours. I didn´t event look at the query, just scrolled down the results for 10 seconds and instantly knew exactly what was wrong. This is not because I'm better at SQL than them or a Carmack level talent. This is because I've known the people in the results listing for basically all my life, so I instantly knew who didn´t belong there and very probably why he was being wrongly selected.
Trivial, but 10 seconds vs. 4 man hours is quite the improvement.
- jjav 2y ago> Trivial, but 10 seconds vs. 4 man hours is quite the improvement. Sure. But now try sustaining that impact multiplier every minute, 8 hours a day for a year.
- potato3732842 2y agoThat's a red herring. It's a question of how open that multiple has to show up to make one approach or the other the winner.