4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
11:47 a.m.
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/03/2013 07:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
You'd think they'd like to actually SOLVE the problem...
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.
Bravo for your efforts to pound some sanity into these idiots' heads.
Unfortunately...I doubt it stayed in their heads
-Dave
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