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Re:How to Interview Engineers by emerongi on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:15PM (#14640822)
I've written at least 5 linked lists in the past year. They're quite useful.
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by Apocryphon on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:19PM (#14640847)
What were you using them for?
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by mickg10 on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:51PM (#14642448)
Not sure about GP, but very recently, an open-addressing hashtable that could be traversed in both reverse modification and reverse insertion time order. There are actually some interesting subtleties when doing this for open-addressing hashtables (i.e., entries (and pointers to them) move around when the table rehashes).
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by stevenwoo on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:27PM (#14640919)
Five different implementations of linked lists?
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by emerongi on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:37PM (#14640998)
Yes. To be fair, this is the first time in my life I can clearly remember implementing a number of linked lists.

I'm pretty sure my lifetime total is not much greater than 5.

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