Comments on: Lessons from the Sub Shop (or Why Your Computer is Slow) http://derekhat.com/lessons-from-the-sub-shop-or-why-your-computer-is-slow/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://derekhat.com/lessons-from-the-sub-shop-or-why-your-computer-is-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Mike Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:26:19 +0000 http://www.derekhat.com/index.php/2006/10/02/lessons-from-the-sub-shop-or-why-your-computer-is-slow/#comment-6 Yeah baby. I love it when everyday observations have parallels to computer science. I think of this nearly every time I get on an elevator and remember my systems prof talking about disk head scheduling algorithms and indefinite postponement (ie. what if elevators always went to the closest requested floor?) Yeah baby. I love it when everyday observations have parallels to computer science.

I think of this nearly every time I get on an elevator and remember my systems prof talking about disk head scheduling algorithms and indefinite postponement (ie. what if elevators always went to the closest requested floor?)

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