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(Author here) As far as I know, there are no cases where this actually matters.

Yeah, afaik this problem is totally unimportant in practice.

Good question :) The difference is that in that case, the problem might take a long time because the input is very long, but in this case, the problem might take a long time even i…

(I am a former Triplebyte employee) The Triplebyte process also involves talking to an actual person; how are you proposing to game that?

This app sounds really cool! I installed it but wasn't too impressed with the quality of the emoji. (This could be because I look kind of weird; eg I have pink hair.) It's really e…

The first part is real, and the second part is the joke.

Here's what Larry Summers had to say on this topic: > 'Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to…

"At around 1,000,000 elements our unsorted vector takes around 32 minutes to lookup a string." I don't at all believe that C++ can only iterate through 2000 strings a second. Pytho…

This list is an awkward mix of posts containing easily-verifiable but surprising claims about various technical specifications, and posts which just make a variety of contentious c…

But that makes no sense--if you want high social mobility (and you think college grads should be paid more), you want both those numbers to be lower. The article treats it as a pro…

This article is terrible. It makes a shitty and misleading graph, and generates a variety of nonsensical judgements from it. The graph used makes it really hard to see what the act…

I disagree with this recommendation; Project Euler is focused on mathematical questions that don't teach a type of thinking very similar to the thinking used while constructing mos…

I think a lot of [these ones]( http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/ ) are really useful and more advanced.

I think a low-level/algorithmic bootcamp would be great, and it wouldn't be that hard to make one.

I also think that it's not obvious that the interviewer is doing the wrong thing here. The claim "good programmers should always think to guard against invalid input" isn't ridicul…

It sort of makes sense. If someone knows a language well, they shouldn't have much trouble writing it syntactically correctly on a whiteboard. Especially in languages which have si…

Another tip which I give: Interviewers vary widely in how much they care about whether your syntax is accurate, whether you handle invalid inputs, and whether you write unit tests.…