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Re:Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving by bcp2384 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:12PM (#20289248)
Why are DP problems so popular for interviews? I am doing leetcode now and they seem to be everywhere.
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Re:Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving by walrus1066 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:25AM (#20292176)
I'd honestly just walk out if a company asks this stuff, yet the actual work is maintaining a CRUD app.
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Re:Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving by chii on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:48AM (#20292024)
they are a very good judge of whether the programmer can do complex problems (but still simple enough a solution to do in an interview setting).
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