SeanSullivan86

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Interesting approach, thanks. Yeah, I don't mind a question and conversation like that to start things off. But I do think getting into something a little deeper (which you also mentioned) later in the interview is important, too.

The overflow thing would be about computing the median of some sub-range of a sorted array. It is an often-quizzed thing that comes up as an edge case in binary search of a large array, but could apply to anything where you need to select the middle element of a sub-range of an array and the sum of the start/end indices could overflow.

I think the lore is that it was a bug in Java?'s binary search lib decades ago?

Huh, feels overly simple to me.

How about something like the beginnings of a spreadsheet engine?

Or.. count the number of distinctly shaped black regions in a bitmap image.

Reminds me of some enum at my current employer, where all the US states have 2 letter codes, except Idaho is spelled out fully.

Same. I think it's probably easier on a touch screen than with mouse, but I'm stuck on level 10 for now. Maybe it's intentionally frustrating. Need to finish this level to unlock the last number I think, but I guess I've I've sunk enough time into it and will let it rest there.

Wouldn't you also need to keep track of the stack's size, to know if there are leading zeros?

Hmm, can someone educate me here? Why don't bit flips ever seem to impact the results of calculations in settings like big-data analytics on AWS?

Is it a difference between server hardware managed by knowledgeable people and random hardware thrown together by home PC builders?

Why is it called a C Compiler if it's a subset of C?

I'm aware of this to an extent. Do you know of any list of what degree of parallelization to expect out of various components? I know this whole napkin-math thing is mostly futile and the answer should mostly be "go test it", but just curious.

I was interviewing recently and was asked about implementing a web crawler and then were discussing bottlenecks (network fetching the pages, writing the content to disk, CPU usage for stuff like parsing the responses) and parallelism, and I wanted to just say "well, i'd test it to figure out what I was bottlenecked on and then iterate on my solution".

Senior management doesn't like it, in my experience. But I agree it makes sense for many interactions.

What happens when something is put on the scale while it's sampling? Does the curve depend on properties of the scale, or just properties of the object and the manner in which it was put on the scale?

I guess everyone has their own preferences, I just find this opinion surprising given the wealth of other hikes in the country.

As someone who grew up hiking in the White Mountains before moving to Washington, the mountains in Washington (and many places in the West) are just on a whole different level.