What real life bad habits has programming given you?

Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by paulgb on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:13PM (#454137)

I've caught myself thinking of time in complexity classes.

Eg. should I walk or drive? It doesn't matter, they're both O(n).

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by oconnor0 on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:37PM (#454187)

When I'm driving, I'll make the decision on passing someone or not depending on whether the resultant speedup is O(1) or O(n).

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by Hexstream on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @02:18PM (#454262)

Walking would be O(n^2) for all but the shortest distances actually, I think. Unless you rested once in a while. Amortized linear time?

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by BeefingJection on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#454440)

How do you figure?

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by Hexstream on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @05:21PM (#455298)

Does walking continuously for 1000km merely take 100 times longer/more effort than 10km?

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by paulgb on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @09:40PM (#455669)

Good point, but you answered your own question: the "walk then rest" algorithm will do it in linear time.

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by tjpick on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @10:10PM (#455718)

null pointer on your drink-bottle instance results in fatal runtime exception.

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by paulgb on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @10:51PM (#455774)

Pun intended?

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Re:What real life bad habits has programming given you? by tjpick on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:11AM (#456091)

da-da-chhhhh. you're quick ;)

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