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Re: Solving dynamic programming interview problems

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6 points and already hugged to death...? Error establishing a database connection

with all due respect to author, here's why solving real problems > interview problems

I agree. This blog is hosted separately from our servers so I went for a quick deployment of WP on google cloud. Learning: do not use google cloud VM micro instance, apparently it cannot support even moderate traffic.

Re: Solving dynamic programming interview problems

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I recently had a programming interview where, at the whiteboard question, I said "this may be a dynamic programming question, let me see--"

and the interviewer said "STOP! Stop, every time someone says that, they end up flopping and never getting anywhere. Don't go down that path, I'm telling you."

I think it had more to do with the interviewer being a poor interviewer, however.

Re: Solving dynamic programming interview problems

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I recently had a programming interview where, at the whiteboard question, I said "this may be a dynamic programming question, let me see--" and the interviewer said "STOP! Stop, every time someone says that, they end up flopping and never getting anywhere. Don't go down that path, I'm telling you." I think it had more to do with the interviewer being a poor interviewer, however.

Woah! What was the problem? Maybe then we can say if he was right or not.
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