Things to say when you are losing a tech argument

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.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 31st, 2005 at 10:23 pm.

One Response to “Things to say when you are losing a tech argument”

  1. mulligan Says:
    August 21st, 2005 at 10:50 am

    uhm, this was on pigdog.org almost 5 year ago. looks like this kirsch character just copied the text verbatim and didnt bother to mention where he got it.