5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up

Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by Balgair on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:05PM (#26472462)

> Give me simple to understand, works, and you saved us a P1 and thousands of dollars not trying to understand the clever algo. In 10 years of coding, the number of times I needed a clever algo can be counted on two hands.

This reminds me of an old anecdote:

Beginner programmers pump out 100 lines of good code a week. Journeymen programmers do 1,000. Master programmers do -100.

It's the same sentiment as the famous Churchillian quip: “I am going to give a long speech today; I haven’t had time to prepare a short one.”

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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by karmakaze on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:14PM (#26498402)

I didn't know that one. "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" is from a Blaise Pascal quote "Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." which translates to "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

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