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Re:O-notation considered harmful (use Analytic Combinatorics... by guard-of-terra on Sunday February 10, 2013 @05:07PM (#5198151)
They can't be serious if they don't provide a cheat sheet - a page worth of notations for common algorithms demonstrating how to use the thing and how it's superior.

Here in the real world we don't have time to read a 800+ pages book on a subject promising to bring marginal productivity benefits. Me, I'd better read some fiction instead. It's so much better for your soul than any CS topic.

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Re:O-notation considered harmful (use Analytic Combinatorics... by stevvooe on Sunday February 10, 2013 @05:41PM (#5198296)
Not to mention the condescending attitude:

Most engineers I know would still argue that Merge Sort is a better solution and apparently Robert has had the same argumentative response even though he is an expert in the field. In the lecture he kindly says the following : “… Such people usually don’t program much and shouldn’t be recommending what practitioners do”.

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