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javajosh on Sept 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Data first, not code first

I've heard this as "debug data not code" and that's an addage that has served me very, very well.

mathgenius on Sept 29, 2015 [–]

Yeah, "smart data-structures, dumb algorithms." Mathematicians know this too: if you get the notation right, then the calculation is simple.

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