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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@untorquer@quokk.au · 30 Aug 2026 · edited

You’re right in terms of grading a student’s homework or whatever.

In research/publication/career these assumptions must be stated unless given.

But I was responding to:

The physicist’s answer would be correct anywhere, no matter the temperature or density of the fluid.

Which includes non-standard conditions.

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  But I was responding to: The physicist’s answer would be correct anywhere, no matter the temperature or density of the fluid. Which includes non-standard conditions.
  
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