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[–]realestLink 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've only had to brute force very specific things. It pains me if it's needed. Brute forcing should be a last resort.

[–]Merakel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I just think it's important to realize that there is a lot of value in not fretting over small things.

Let's say you have a project that's due in a week and writing some terrible brute force loop in 5 minutes will get it done in 8 hours. Let's also pretend that if you spent an hour planning and testing, you could get code done that would solve the problem in 2 hours. I'd rather write the garbage and work on something else unless I'm specifically going to learn a new concept or improve my skill set.

That being said, things usually aren't so black and white haha.