foofie

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   by foofie 3y ago

   > I wouldn’t classify it as trivia to know the big-O complexity of an algorithm or to have some idea of the worst-case behaviors you may run into (like inserting already sorted data into a binary tree). It's trivia, and more often t
2. 302.▲
   by foofie 3y ago

   Honest question: what's the point of knowing trivia on data structures and algorithms if you will never implement those or even be aware you're using them or not? In the real world you pick containers based on their traits, and yo
3. 303.▲
   by foofie 3y ago

   > (...) there is a massive amount of information that you are required to learn that you will almost certainly never need, except possibly for that one moment in 1000 hours of flying when something happens in the air, (...) I don't