On Dec 1, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> I doubt I can talk you out of it, but the truth is that you — like every one > of the rest of us, because we’ve got human brains — are really, really lousy > at intuiting about randomness and probabilities. What we *think* isn’t worth > the paper our emails are printed on. This is not about intuition--at least not in the way you think. Hard mathematical analysis of the properties of hashes supports the hash approach. Intuition argues against it, because of the exact reason you mentioned ;-) Now, granted there's an argument for an alternative approach that does not require hashing, and that's fine. But there are certainly other cases where a hash would be what is needed, and our "monkey-brain" reaction against it would be counter-productive, which is why I'm still flogging this... -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
