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Re:How to Interview Engineers by qb45 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:26AM (#14644323)
Determining if two intervals overlap is not a trivia question but a trivial question for a programmer and hiring people who can't do better than O(n²) probably is good only for really boring maintenance projects where the workload lags far behind Moore's law.

I'm not necessarily saying that such things don't exist, but not my cup of tea.

Re:How to Interview Engineers by poikniok on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:07PM (#14647173)
What do you think n here is when you say O(n^2)?
Re:How to Interview Engineers by qb45 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:31PM (#14650148)
The number of seconds in these intervals, see the top level post.