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The whole thing is a giant straw man. Not worth reading.

His would-be juicy bit about amortized analysis and hash table growth -- this is all freshman undergrad algorithms stuff. Though, it is sad to say, that lots of IT shop pros out there don't know this stuff. (I have been the "guru" or "genius" far too many times, because I know that a naive array add implementation is O(n^2))



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