4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
2:22 p.m.
>> When I taught beginning Data Structures And
Algorithms, I always got a few
>> students who rejected the idea of being efficient ("throw hardware at
>> it"), and specifically objected to spending an entire 3 hour class session
>> on how to create algorithms for sorting and searching datasets too big to
>> fit into memory ("just get a bigger computer and load it all into a single
>> array in memory!")
> I've run across a few of those guys. I delight in firing them. I'm sure
> some of them, to this day, have no idea of why.
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
You'd think they'd like to actually SOLVE the
problem...
Nope.
Grade, paycheck
Bravo for
your efforts to pound some sanity into these idiots' heads.
Unfortunately...I
doubt it stayed in their heads