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You should if you expect your readers to be normal humans who understand obvious context, and not pedantic HN readers who understand obvious context but delight
by IshKebab 1y ago
You should if you expect your readers to be normal humans who understand obvious context, and not pedantic HN readers who understand obvious context but delight in nit-picking it anyway.
- Dylan16807 1y agoYou can, but it's not should.
- morepedantic 1y ago>pedantic Who the fuck do you think is the intended audience for an article about an algorithm in `git bundle create`? I spent approximately two minutes of my life trying to figure out where the O(n^2) algorithm was being invoked in such a way that it influenced an exponential. Exponential was bolded in the same sentence as a big-O. 50/50 troll/author oversight.
- saagarjha 1y agoMaybe not 'morepedantic
- globular-toast 1y agoAh yes because "normal humans" know what O(n^2) means but damnit they are going to use exponential wrong.
- tomjakubowski 1y agoI'm a normal human and I know what O(n^2) means. There are dozens of us.