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Software Engineer: After a week of hard work, I halved the runtime of our program for all possible inputs! Computer Scientist: That's too bad. All that work an
by slavik81 8y ago
Software Engineer: After a week of hard work, I halved the runtime of our program for all possible inputs!
Computer Scientist: That's too bad. All that work and nothing to show for it.
- hinkley 8y agoIn my Google interview, toward the end of the day I told the guy who I really didn’t want to work with anyway: What’s the hardest thing about software development? Removing the constant time overhead factors from performance critical code. He didn’t like that answer. But I had kinda already decided he was an asshole.