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reason enough to fail the interview (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago by groctel@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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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[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, but the question wasn't "what is a hash used for", but rather "what is a hash"

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Then it's not all that ambiguous and could be answered with one sentence.

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[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Technically, the question was even easier (yes/no), but I agree with the sentiment

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