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It is interesting that there's so much discourse about the effort people have had to put into data structure and algorithm stuff for interviews, but then people
by runevault 1y ago
It is interesting that there's so much discourse about the effort people have had to put into data structure and algorithm stuff for interviews, but then people refuse to take advantage of the knowledge studying that gives you towards trivial effort optimizations (aka your code can look pretty similar, just using a different data structure under the hood for example).
- sfn42 1y agoThat's because people don't get it. You see people saying things like "It's pointless to memorize these algorithms I'll never use" - you're not supposed to memorize the specific algorithms. You're supposed to study them and learn from them, understand what makes them faster than the others and then be able to apply that understanding to your own custom algorithms that you're writing every day.