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rukatiger

Things to do for an interview...

May 19, 2004 23:04

So today, this knob comes to our office for an interview for a co-op position in the fall, but he had already screwed the pooch in my book ( Read more... )

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stilghar May 19 2004, 20:57:04 UTC

Ruka, you make me afraid. I've been a CS major for some time now, and I've never even heard of Questions #1 or 2 above.

#3, if I may rely on basic algebra, relies on the value of N. For N > 2 ,4N is faster.

Should I take up underwater basket weaving?

stilghar May 19 2004, 21:00:57 UTC

As for the interviewee, he should be sentenced to Life at McDonald's. :P

rukatiger May 20 2004, 07:56:18 UTC

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete2. A circular reference problem is where two components of an application both need information from one another to do their work. The solution is to create a third component that is responsible for communications between the two afore mentioned components ( ... )

stilghar May 20 2004, 19:51:22 UTC

Ahh, silly me.

I was thinking of 4N as being "faster" in terms of the growth of N. Seems that I was looking at things back-asswards.

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rukatiger May 20 2004, 07:59:45 UTC

Heh heh, I was trying SO hard not to laugh out loud the whole time.

Yup, want a change of scenery?

oceansedge May 26 2004, 11:45:57 UTC

Perhaps you'll enjoy the link in this post..... I'm told it's quite hilarious to those who understand these things....me I haven't got a clue, but I never claimed to be a programmer..

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hendikins/15523.html