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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IT person here. CS is very valuable. Yes, a lot of tools we use today have the algorithms already embedded, like sorting, hash tables, and so on.. but understanding the _how_ of those can really help, especially as you build scalable systems. At scale, performance is key and understanding the underlying concepts is very important then. Kind of like memory management. "Kids these days" don't have to worry about memory usage as much as when I started, because it's cheap and abundant... but at scale you do becuase a small inefficiency becomes a big problem when you're doing 1,000 requests/second. I see this all the time when reviewing code from younger people -- they do stuff like pass a copy of an object instead of a reference to it (like pointers in languages like C). Big mess memory-wise at scale.[/quote][/quote]
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