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Answer: I once emailed a question to a C compiler developer: "Which is faster.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You Why are programmers so anti-optimization? Why is optimizing so stigmatized in the Ruby and Node.JS community? Bill Karwin, SQL developer, consultant, trainer, and author. Updated Mar 2, 2017 I once emailed a question to a C compiler developer: "Which is faster, ++i or i++?" His reply was: "By emailing me this question, you have already wasted more CPU cycles than... Read More » Why is exercising so difficult? Sean Kernan, Son of Quora Written Jul 2 I'll tell you the secret - the reason most people struggle with keeping a gym routine. It isn't time, it isn't energy. It's aversion. They haven't learned to get into a flow s... Read More » As a doctor, when was the closest you were to leaving the profession? Why? Robert Frantz, B.S., M.D. Zoology & Medicine and Healthcare, The University of Oklahoma (1996) Written Jul 5 During my senior year of medical school we rotated in a rural hospital in order to build confidence. There were two medical students (one from the MD school and one from th... Read More » Do good coders code in the morning or late at night? Mohammed Essaid MEZERREG, A programmer since 2007, My first lines of code was in Delphi 7 IDE. Written Jan 27, 2016 In movies you always see the computer guy working at night, with bucket of coffee and a rack of beer and keyboard crying out loud from the keystrokes from his fingers. When... Read More » As a Canadian, would you like to switch your healthcare system to one like America? Joseph Schwartzman, Lived here all my life and across the country Written Jul 6 Just yesterday I saw an interview with 2 people on YouTube. Both were Americans who moved to Canada many years ago for their spouses. One got sick and had to retire at 60 t... Read More » What picture best describes liberals? Charles Tips, 100% Authentic Liberal Written Jun 28 Third-way politics… not liberal. Social democratic politics… not liberal. Cloud-cuckoo-land politics… not liberal. Democratic socialist politics… not liberal. ... Read More » Should I quit my job and start learning algorithm and data structures to get job in big companies like Google? Myk Shaalo, Software Manager at Amazon Written Aug 1, 2017 I was in your shoes. Software engineer, my mid 20s, at a decidedly non-tech medical company in Minnesota. I was bored and yearned for a better career. It felt like a dead-end... Read More » What are some major Hollywood misconceptions about shootouts (like police shootouts or military firefights)? Sam Morningstar, Author of Combat Veterans' Forum Written Jan 9, 2017 Apparently, in Hollywood, you can escape a very large explosion if you are just outside of the huge fireball. The other thing that is pretty funny is showing machine guns fi... Read More » Have any of you ever been in a coma, and if so, did you have any dreams, or hear the people around you in the hospital? What kind of experience was it? Minah Lambert, B.A.; Business Admin. Nutrition, American University (2010) Written Sat I was in a medically-induced coma for 2.5 months February 2016-May 2016. My now ex-fiancé broke into my home on the coldest day of the year, walked into the Master Bedroom (... Read More » If Bill Gates had chosen Unix as base on which to develop the Windows operating system, would Windows still be the dominating operating system today? Tom Peracchio, Computer networking and systems administration since the 1990s Updated Aug 6, 2017 Years ago when I was teaching computer networking and operating systems when I introduced students to the differences between Windows and Unix I would bring up a line from ... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.