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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@Yaky@slrpnk.net · 30 Aug 2026

I expected the bottom to say something like “instead of cloud-native scalable microservices using AI models that cost an average US household salary per day to run”, but maybe I’ve been in corporate for too long.

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- @Tja@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
  
  Depends on the scale of the project. Some apps you would get a promotion if you could get them to (reliably) run on just 50k a day.
  
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