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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by fkfaduc on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:42PM (#22194682)
This sounds very counter-intuitive! Did you hear this from someone working at Facebook or did you read it online? If it's the latter it'd be great if you could share a link!
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by dzlobin on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:17PM (#22197047)
I don't know of any online links to point to but I am an active interviewer at FB and I know we don't ask DP questions
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by ceejayoz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:25PM (#22195139)
Why is it counter-intuitive that people who interview well may still not function well in a specific organization?
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by objektif on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:37PM (#22195969)
What is counterintuitive about this? That best dynamic programmers are the absolute best programmers? I mean come on man..
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by SegFaultx64 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:02PM (#22196256)
Seems like pretty clearly GP isn't familiar with the definition of dynamic programming in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by naniwaduni on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:27PM (#22199055)
Key takeaway:

> It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible.

How times have changed!

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by objektif on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:05PM (#22203850)
Whats GP here are you referring to me?
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by fkfaduc on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:13AM (#22200480)
I don't exactly understand why this is getting downvoted, I'm genuinely curious if companies have published anything on that.

Also for me, it _is_ counter-intuitive, since DP was one of the hardest things for me when I started with programming, and I'd at least expect a non-trivial correlation between being good at DP and job performance, that's why I was asking about where I can read more about this.

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