[tgma]

> rather than by using robust canned implementations

And who is supposed to implement the robust canned implementation?

[bolanyo]

Probably not a UWaterloo recent grad who is good at programming competitions and has just been hired onto a random product team at Google.

[tgma]

I’d posit that a UWaterloo grad who landed a job at Google is close to maximally likely to end up working on something like that [acknowledging that in absolute terms relatively few college grads do so.]