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We often complain that certain link-baiting, populist posts are not worthy of HN's front page. The retort is usually along the lines that while the post is of l

We often complain that certain link-baiting, populist posts are not worthy of HN's front page. The retort is usually along the lines that while the post is of little interest, the discussion around it may be valuable. I hope that we can reach that standard here. Just as the post adds little to anyone's understanding of tractability, flaming the post for that fact adds little to HN :-)

donaq 17y ago
Right you are. Even though Jeff has never said anything that inclines one to think he actually understands what NP-completeness means, (I suspect he still thinks it's like porn) I must say his remark about computers operating at the speed of light did lead me to read the wikipedia article about optical computing, which is way more interesting. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing