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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).
Re:A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash...
on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:21PM (#32489124)
> 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.
Re:Gazette – Build platforms that flexibly mix SQL, batch, and stream ...
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:03PM (#32120403)
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.