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jaw0··on When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
at a previous workplace, every new hire would discover the handwritten bubblesort in our codebase, freak out, and submit a pull request to fix it.

and every new hire got taken to the whiteboard to learn about sort algorithm performance: bubblesort is O(n) in the best case.

and in our codebase, the data being sorted fit that best case (the data was already sorted or almost sorted).

jaw0··on A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)
> they're injecting a middle-man where one doesn't need to exist

a food logistics service should exist, as (if done well) it should scale better than local restaurants doing their own delivery.

jaw0··on Gazette – Build platforms that flexibly mix SQL, batch, and stream processing
it came out of arbor.io (now part of liveramp.com)
jaw0··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I used to use delicious, but after it got bought the Nth time, I went and built my own delicious clone.