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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@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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