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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Now please publish it as a Node.js module and in 3 weeks, it will be in Top 10 most used modules, being used in 90% of Fortune 500 corporations.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

here's a more nuanced question: in school iirc my teacher was implementing terminal 2-human tic-tac-toe with us and used an only slightly less egregious 7-by-3 AND/OR gate to see whether any player had won. because I didn't like all the repetition, my version iterated through a 7-by-3 list of lists of indecies instead. every toy programming problem I've seen since was so general that it didn't go well with this kind of hardcoding either

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

When creating an example for beginning programmers, sometimes using a very inefficient data structure is more illustrative and a helpful educational tool.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But… does it pass all the tests?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

If it does, they don't have enough of the right tests.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What would the output be for the following:

99 Beers on the Wall!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or for "CAFÉ"?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This will not work on Unicode

Greek and Arabic have cases as well

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This will not work on Unicode

Correct.

Greek and Arabic have cases as well

Who told you that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Brain fart, I meant Cyrillic but I wrote the wrong word! Good catch thanks!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This looks like O(n), because you don't include constants when calculating Big-O. It's still ~26 times slower than the implementation without the inner loop.

~~This looks like O(n^2) because of the sub.~~

I was right the first time. sub is "substring" and not "substitute".

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