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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[–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

Its not a gotcha question though, is ambiguous to see if you ask for more information or just make assumptions.

We are losing a large account at work because a team provided a solution to a customer based on their initial issues without asking for more info on what the root issue was.

Had they just asked "why are you needing to do this particular thing?" The while solution would have been different.

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