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Further along these lines:

http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...

(around 10-12 minutes in starts talking about algorithms in production)

Johnathon Blow (semi-famous indie dev) talking about when data-structures and algorithms really matter.

I tend to agree with this--a bad (suboptimal but functioning) algorithm now is better than a perfect algorithm later, and when you need to ship you should write the code that gets things done.



There are always lots of entry-level devs who can apply their fresh CS degrees to those refinements.




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