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I'm not sure how people couldn't merge two sorted arrays when a competent fifth grader could figure that question out without ever touching a computer. Some pe
by SQueeeeeL 5y ago
I'm not sure how people couldn't merge two sorted arrays when a competent fifth grader could figure that question out without ever touching a computer.
Some people, even those with 100s of hours of schooling, just never learn how to think computationally. They just "fake it till they make it", which really just means they have no ability to provide value to any company.
- milesvp 5y agoDid you know that there are Go problems that professional players can't solve, but that newbies solve trivially? Becoming a professional go player creates blind spots, basically any board that could never happen in a real game just don't make any sense to someone at that level. And while, I don't equate merging 2 sorted arrays with being an unsolvable problem for an experienced dev, I have personally experienced similar increasing difficulty to toy problems as I gain increasing real world experience. Common things like timestamps and full names are not as simple as they seem, and so now, I'm less likely to just jump to an answer that would have seemed obvious to me 20 years ago. And it's not like I come up with the solution and discard it, it's more like the previously obvious solution is no longer the first things I think about.