On: Ask HN: Should I quit trying to be a programmer?

[srtjstjsj]

That's not brute force; that's calling in the cavalry to do brute force for you.

[anothergoogler → srtjstjsj]

Meh, it's a concise description of a median and it only uses builtin functions. People take "brute" too literally and think it means you should be writing a lot of code: It's about the performance.