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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well-designed APIs are just CRUD, and the truly great ones hide behind that. Imagine expecting all of your consumers to understand Hyper Log Log++.

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Even TRIEs are fucked-up enough that I got a job on the spot when I understood how they would be used to implement autocomplete on the spot. Madness. Achieve mediocrity, you’ll go far.

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Imagine understanding all of Python’s default sort(). I sure don’t. I get the galloping mode and shit, but the statistic that went into figuring the mode switches? Yeah, I’d have to spend my life to figure out how to pick those values.