Krulwich is also the clown who had his ass handed to him by none other than Neil Armstrong last month: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/08/131910930/neil-...
Were I asked this, my general approach would be: (1) Given the available building blocks (disks, ram, cpus, etc) what strategies are workable? An example of a strategy would be "store it in a btree and keep all but the…
Is it pretty common? As someone who does a fair number of software engineer interviews, that's a trick question. The real answer to "swap two vars with no temps" is: 1. Don't be clever in our code base. Use a temp…
CPU contention is one of the least noticeable overload situations on a computer because schedulers have hidden it well since forever. Even if your video playback and your benchmark are at the same nice-value, the…
Krulwich is also the clown who had his ass handed to him by none other than Neil Armstrong last month: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/08/131910930/neil-...
Were I asked this, my general approach would be: (1) Given the available building blocks (disks, ram, cpus, etc) what strategies are workable? An example of a strategy would be "store it in a btree and keep all but the…
Is it pretty common? As someone who does a fair number of software engineer interviews, that's a trick question. The real answer to "swap two vars with no temps" is: 1. Don't be clever in our code base. Use a temp…
CPU contention is one of the least noticeable overload situations on a computer because schedulers have hidden it well since forever. Even if your video playback and your benchmark are at the same nice-value, the…