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Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles by oh_sigh on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:13PM (#21199658)
Can you give me an order of magnitude estimate of how many milliseconds you believe solving the 2d bin packing problem with added constraints would take on a commodity PC when n=the max number of clients in any wework building?

The problem is interesting, but it isn't one you need to set up an entire engineering team to solve.

Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles by CydeWeys on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:21PM (#21205425)
Actually, yes, I think you would need an entire engineering team to write, maintain, scale, and run a system that solves this problem. For example, my employer has a whole team working on internal tools for booking/managing/re-allocating conference rooms. It's almost exactly the same problem, it's non-trivial, it's complex, and it takes an entire team.