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Re:Ask HN: When was the last time you used big-o in a web app? by bunchesofdonald on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @08:51AM (#2840917)
I disagree as well. Certainly most code that runs when you actually view a page in a web app is O(N), but there are many web apps that do backend computing that is much more complicated. Take Google and Netflix as examples.
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Re:Ask HN: When was the last time you used big-o in a web app? by PaulHoule on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:22PM (#2843171)
You'd better believe that Google and Netflix have scientists who work hard every day trying to "bend the curve" towards O(N) in all of those applications.
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