How I look at the algorithm nerd on my team who just wrote code that is tightly coupled across 3 layers of the codebase.
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The solution that I know my colleagues can maintain in the future.
I feel like it would CS professors and not software engineers who would give that look.
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This wholly depends on where this code is running. If it’s running on the server, you want the best algorithm for most cases, to try to minimize work and power consumption, and maximize capacity. If it’s running on the client, just use whatever.
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How BE guys look at you when you use flex-grid instead.
Harold Shipman meme.