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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by groctel@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve

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[–] Stache_@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

Red thinks you’re making up words

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

They're all real words, but not in an order that makes sense. And I'm not sure what algorithms there are by a Ross or Maxwell.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 point 2 months ago

I think it means when the method is barely better O(Exp), even on ordered sets

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