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Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with their belief that SJ was god.

Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.

Comment · 15 years ago

But Dennis didn't wear black turtlenecks everyday so obviously he's less important.

</sarcasm>

Comment · 15 years ago

However, that actually requires ordering socks, which as we all know is O(not gonna happen).

Comment · 15 years ago

Yeah, those aren't types, they're merely annotations.

Comment · 15 years ago

2) A programmer who disposes of the idea of using memory efficiently has probably discarded the idea of algorithmic efficiently in any way whatsoever.

Space and time have to very often be traded off against each other in algorithms.

Comment · 15 years ago

Well, multiple versions of code being loaded means that there are fewer common pages to share across processes. However I think it is the right tradeoff to make.

Comment · 15 years ago

I disagree, and I'm presenting as much evidence for it as you are (i.e. none). In which conference was Apple's finding published? Where can I download a PDF of the paper?

Comment · 15 years ago

Evidence? Citation? Or are you saying that on blind faith simply because it's Apple?

Comment · 15 years ago

AKA door-in-the-face. Standard psychological trick studied since at least the 1970s.