Re:Donald Knuth's letter about teaching O notation in calcul...
by johnm on Sunday April 20, 2008 @05:22PM
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Indeed!
I was "interviewing" with the head developer at a media startup who thought he knew his stuff and after handing him his hat on a number of things, he tried one last "zinger" question on O(). Turns out that neither he nor the head of engineering knew the difference between O(n^2) and O(n log n) but they were so confident that they did. Unbelievable.
I was "interviewing" with the head developer at a media startup who thought he knew his stuff and after handing him his hat on a number of things, he tried one last "zinger" question on O(). Turns out that neither he nor the head of engineering knew the difference between O(n^2) and O(n log n) but they were so confident that they did. Unbelievable.