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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by tpetricek on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:28AM (#14131612)
What if the space you are searching is not a landscape with hills, but a maze?

I'm not saying it is, but the metaphor that makes the post so strong is not particularly well-grounded. Maybe we programmers tend to think about life as hill-climbing precisely because that's metaphor we often think about when solving programming problems...

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