Not to be a downer on your joke, but if we had more doctors, medical care might be cheaper, which would also save lives.
Re:Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple
by prepend on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:26AM
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More doctors who kill people is probably a bad idea.
I had a joke about bad PMs...if you can be replaced by a spreadsheet in a shared folder you are probably a bad PM.
I think having tons of bad doctors is probably a worse way to solve the high price if medical care than just having better shifting of work within healthcare to apps, therapists, telemedicine, and nurses.
Great PMs are awesome and way less important than great doctors since usually people don’t die from non-great PMs.
Re:Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple
by patrick5415 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:55AM
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But only if the extra doctors were sufficiently competent.
Is there any reference showing that this is the reason that people were asking about linked lists?
There is the old joke that organic chemistry saved more lives than penicillin by preventing dumb people from reaching med school. It’s a silly joke but it rests on some correlation between the kind of thinking needed for this course and needed to be successful doctor or medical student. If anything there is probably a stronger correlation between the kind of thinking needed for basic algorithms and data structure questions and the thinking needed to be a strong programmer.