the ryan king

From Things to say when you are losing a tech argument:

2.That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
15. Oh, I played with that approach back as an undergrad. Got a D, too.
18.That’s totally inefficient on modern hardware.
26. No, no, no. It’s fairly important that the database be in THIRD NORMAL FORM.
28. I don’t think that’s altogether clear. Please write it up in UML for me.
39.This is all covered in Knuth, and we don’t have time to go over it again.
65.Yes, but we’re standardizing on XML.

I’ve talked about this a couple times.

I think we’re all just going to have to get over the fact that there is no longer a corelation between phone number and location. I can’t imagine how many database schemas will have to be updated to do this, however.