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Re:Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI by 1k on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:55PM (#44037022)
This exactly. It is more important to move fast. Screw the edge cases. As long as it’s correct _most_ of the time, you can always fix anything that’s broken tomorrow.
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Re:Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI by whatever1 on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:32PM (#44037522)
Why on earth did the software engineering interviews were checking candidates’ ability to think about edge cases? Clearly management does not care.
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Re:Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI by pavel_lishin on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:43PM (#44037255)
It's called "eventual consistency".
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Re:Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI by sho_hn on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:03AM (#44037983)
And C10k was never about those 10.000 socket connections getting the right response, either!
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