c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · groctel@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026 18:43

reason enough to fail the interview

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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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@hperrin@lemmy.ca · 30 Aug 2026

This wholly depends on where this code is running. If it’s running on the server, you want the best algorithm for most cases, to try to minimize work and power consumption, and maximize capacity. If it’s running on the client, just use whatever.

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- @Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org · 30 Aug 2026
  
  THIS IS WHY SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS ARE 75 GB WHEN 20 YEARS AGO THEY WERE ONLY 200 MB.
  
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- @xthexder@l.sw0.com · 30 Aug 2026
  
  If it’s running on the client, just use whatever.
  
  Because who cares if it’s the user that has to buy more RAM or gets terrible battery life, that’s not our problem. /s
  
  This is why we can’t have nice things.
  
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  - @hperrin@lemmy.ca · 31 Aug 2026
    
    I agree. I guess it wasn’t obvious that I was being sarcastic.
    
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    - @bruh@nord.pub · 31 Aug 2026
      
      you should have used ‘/s’. a lot of people got confused it seems
      
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