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No, math is major part of writing good code, but when was the last time you've seen somebody put effort into writing O(n) algorithm? 99% of programming is "impo
by agilob 2y ago
No, math is major part of writing good code, but when was the last time you've seen somebody put effort into writing O(n) algorithm? 99% of programming is "import sort from sort; sort.sortThisReallyQuick". Programming is mostly writing code that just compiles and eventually gives correct results (and has bugs). You can do a lot of programming just buy copy-pasting results from stackoverflow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
https://old.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/35prfv/designer_applies_for_js_job_fails_at_fizzbuzz/ https://old.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/35prfv/designer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
- simianparrot 2y agoIn any real-world application you'll sooner than later run into optimization challenges where if you don't understand the foundational challenges, googling "fastly do the thing" won't help you ;) Much like asking an LLM to solve a problem for you.
- constantcrying 2y agoMost optimization you do as a software engineer is about figuring out what you do not need to do, no math involved. You aren't going around applying novel techniques of numerical linear algebra.