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Re:When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:42PM (#46227750)
at a previous workplace, every new hire would discover the handwritten bubblesort in our codebase, freak out, and submit a pull request to fix it.

and every new hire got taken to the whiteboard to learn about sort algorithm performance: bubblesort is O(n) in the best case.

and in our codebase, the data being sorted fit that best case (the data was already sorted or almost sorted).

> they're injecting a middle-man where one doesn't need to exist

a food logistics service should exist, as (if done well) it should scale better than local restaurants doing their own delivery.

it came out of arbor.io (now part of liveramp.com)
Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:11PM (#31853844)
I used to use delicious, but after it got bought the Nth time, I went and built my own delicious clone.