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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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