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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@OwOarchist@pawb.social · 30 Aug 2026

And then there’s good old Chris Sawyer, writing an entire (fairly complex) game completely in Assembly, because he wanted the (actually kind of computationally heavy) game to still work on potato hardware.

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- @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 31 Aug 2026
  
  Which one?
  
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  - @Tja@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
    
    Probably roller coaster tycoon…
    
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    - @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 31 Aug 2026 · edited
      
      Ah, right.
      
      But this was at a time when compilers weren’t better than you in optimizing.
      
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