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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by pps43 on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:33PM (#19192939)
That's more like small/large than easy/hard.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by akhilcacharya on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:42AM (#19199190)
I'd argue finding the next permutation is actually very difficult if you don't know the standard algorithm.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by pmiller2 on Monday February 18, 2019 @02:14PM (#19193359)
The key word here is “optimal.” These aren’t difficult tasks if you can just write down the straightforward code to do them.
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