“A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.”
– Terry Baker
The Atheist Blogroll
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- James Randi At The World Skeptics Congress #6WSC12 May 24, 2012 Kylie Sturgess
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- Romney on How To Fix Edumication May 24, 2012 Greg Laden
- Shelley Segal’s Salamander Song May 24, 2012 Daniel Fincke
- President Romney’s business approach to running the government May 24, 2012 Mano Singham
- SCOTUS to Hear Warrantless Wiretaps Case May 24, 2012 Ed Brayton
- NZ Science Blogs
- 1 Year In May 24, 2012 eyeonicr
- Dementia – There’s an app for that! May 24, 2012 Ken Perrott
- Budget 2012: What’s in it for science? May 24, 2012 Peter Griffin
- Viewing our Bacteria. May 24, 2012 utufiu
- How much water does it take to produce one litre of milk? May 24, 2012 Waiology
- How do you store your photos? May 24, 2012 address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Chthoniid)
- G8: self-deception on energy and climate May 23, 2012 Bryan Walker
- every major's terrible (apologies to gilbert & sullivan) May 23, 2012 Alison Campbell
- Venture Solutions operates in commercialisation’s ‘no-man’s-land’ May 23, 2012 Peter Kerr
- SRGAP2 Duplication & Inhibition May 23, 2012 eyeonicr
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Words to live by, because you really can generalize and optimize forever. Well. There may be an upper bound, but we haven’t found it yet.
I don’t think there is an upper bound actually. I read about how the computer science students at MIT in 60′s and 70′s spent years optimising a floating point arithmetic function. They kept it in a drawer in the lab and every year the new batch of students would improve on the previous year’s performance.
A sufficiently motivated real programmer could spend the rest of his life optimising just one piece of code.