Re:Teach Yourself Computer Science
by sidlls on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:00AM
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Yes, we are in agreement (except for what I perceive as a derision toward "web devs", which by the way I am not and didn't even mention, so I'm not sure why you even mentioned it). I also left out specific kinds of some very resource constrained domains in general; a terrible omission on my part. I'm sure there are others as well that I didn't call out specifically. Not having experienced every single kind of programming problem type I rather think it would be silly and pretentious of me to try to enumerate them all.
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> except for what I perceive as a derision toward "web devs", which by the way I am not and didn't even mention, so I'm not sure why you even mentioned it
I didn't read it as derision. I read it as an indication of a different focus between two areas of development. Microseconds don't matter in most cases. Milliseconds matter more often. Something optimized for microsecond-ish timing will make a tradeoff somewhere else (like code readability, generalness, etc).