• ulterno@programming.dev
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    21 hours ago

    Never have I had to implement any kind of ridiculous algorithm to pass tests with huge amounts of data in the least amount of memory, as the competitive websites show.

    It has been mostly about:

    • Finding the correct library for a job and understanding it well, to prevent footguns and blocking future features
    • Design patterns for better build times
    • Making sane UI options and deciding resource alloc/dealloc points that would match user interaction expectations
    • cmake

    But then again, I haven’t worked in FinTech or Big Data companies, neither have I made an SQL server.