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		nitwit005 on March 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How We Built Uber’s Highest Query per Second Servi... Where would they even use generics? All their algorithm requires is arrays of polygons, and a function to check if a polygon contains a point.

azth on March 2, 2016 [–]

To store the RTree entries. Say you want to switch between 32 bit and 64 bit floating point types in your implementation, without re-writing the entire thing.

majewsky on March 2, 2016 | [–]

sed -i s/float/double/ *.go

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