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> some people need to know about N and Nlog(N) vs N^2. Every programmer should know enough to at least avoid accidentally making things quadratic. https://new

• hetman 1y ago
  Indeed. As an anecdote, I've come across a self professed frontend UI guru writing quadratic code that worked fine in testing because it only had to display a few tens of items there, but at a complete loss why it was unusable in production.
• pfdietz 1y ago
  Or, to recognize when they or someone else has done so and recover. It's often a case of "N won't be large here" and then later N does sometimes turn out to be large.