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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@Stache_@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026 · edited

Red thinks you’re making up words

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- @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 31 Aug 2026
  
  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 · 31 Aug 2026
  
  I think it means when the method is barely better O(Exp), even on ordered sets
  
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