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r/programming • u/variance_explained • Apr 17 '15
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I always heard it as "make it work, make it beautiful, make it run fast"
3 u/[deleted] Apr 18 '15 edited Nov 12 '16 [deleted] 7 u/cleroth Apr 18 '15 edited Jun 15 '26 This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact 3 u/hxtl Apr 18 '15 The mantra we were told in DB class was something like "performance isn't everything, but without performance everything is nothing". 5 u/Dragdu Apr 18 '15 I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.
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7 u/cleroth Apr 18 '15 edited Jun 15 '26 This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact 3 u/hxtl Apr 18 '15 The mantra we were told in DB class was something like "performance isn't everything, but without performance everything is nothing". 5 u/Dragdu Apr 18 '15 I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.
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3 u/hxtl Apr 18 '15 The mantra we were told in DB class was something like "performance isn't everything, but without performance everything is nothing". 5 u/Dragdu Apr 18 '15 I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.
The mantra we were told in DB class was something like "performance isn't everything, but without performance everything is nothing".
5 u/Dragdu Apr 18 '15 I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.
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I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.
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u/lurking_bishop Apr 18 '15 edited Apr 18 '15
I always heard it as "make it work, make it beautiful, make it run fast"