I find it odd that this was removed while things like vapor.js (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728645) get posted pretty frequently.

It's a real app, and it's also satire.

Just like how a satirical movie is still a movie.

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Meanwhile, you discover a long time down the road that the algorithm you thought was fine is actually incredibly slow when scaled to large inputs because you didn't have a good understanding of runtime analysis.

Or maybe, as you say, understanding more things makes you worse at coding. Who knows.

I guess I'm not buying that Big-O is a necessary requirement to understand how fast or slow an algorithm will be. It could be that someone understands and uses the process behind it without being at all familiar with the notation.

I think it says a lot here that I read that whole thing and still have no idea what you do or why you're touting it about like this.

No. No no no no no.

Karma being valued is a major part of WHY reddit is so awful.