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"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM"... really shows a startling lack of understanding Are you perhaps missing that it's a deliberate inve
by newt 16y ago
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM"... really shows a startling lack of understanding
Are you perhaps missing that it's a deliberate inversion of the more obvious statement "needing more RAM is for people who don't know how to use Algorithms" in order to make the point that RAM is cheaper than an engineer's time?
- nervechannel 16y agoBut many interesting problems can't be solved by throwing more RAM at them, because RAM isn't the bottleneck.
- alextgordon 16y agoAre you suggesting that Jeff Atwood may be exaggerating?
- pavel_lishin 16y agoWhich is why you solve the boring problems by throwing RAM at them, and spend the time you just saved solving the interesting ones. :0