r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 4h ago

Meme dynamicP

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u/ByteSizedFounder 3h ago

Then proceeds to dust off old compsci notes from uni. "Remember your training"

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u/TechTuna1200 3h ago

Star Wars meme: "Just like the simulations"

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u/Urist_McPencil 0m ago

", and you will make it out alive."

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u/Mughi1138 3h ago

Reminds me... I'm still waiting for my chance to implement a bloom filter. Almost got to do one this year.

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u/Ma4r 3h ago

You can't imagine my excitement when I had to implement LCA in a production environment

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u/Puzzled-Crew-2333 3h ago

What was it for?

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 3h ago

Some memes have barely any pixel. This one is UHD.

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u/matrix-doge 1h ago

Just above this post for me is a (jokingly) 8k quality clip from a gaming sub lol.

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u/redditmarks_markII 3h ago

Brother, these days I fix the equivalent of n**2 time loops when linear is possible.  If I tried to explain DP I will be called out by some principal eng as making shit up.  When proven not, they'll say they are overcommitted for the quarter.  And why can't my service support any kind of use of it anyway?  These are 100% real arguments I've heard.  I know things get political once you get past senior swe, but god damn, how are we an industry.

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u/zaersx 3h ago

just make tests that represent the behaviour and refactor away, if they complain tell them to outline the use case that is not covered by a test.

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u/Puzzled-Crew-2333 3h ago

Implemented lcs once, best day on the job.

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u/MissinqLink 25m ago

I use lcs quite a lot. It’s great for fuzzy matching.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 2h ago

I learned a dynamic programming algorithm for parsing context free grammars in grad school, and promptly found a use for it in a linguistics app I built in my free time that needed to be able to convert an arbitrarily specified spelling system into a phonemic transcription. Definitely did not take ten years, lmao. 

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u/StarboardChaos 3h ago

And you still prompt your AI agent to solve it...

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u/Vintfy 3h ago

When the LeetCode gimmicks stop working and the job suddenly becomes interesting.

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u/kishaloy 3h ago

And then go to the space where the program itself is dynamic data and true enlightenment will dawn on you.

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u/nitkonigdje 1h ago

20 years in, never saw need for it on a job.

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u/Igarlicbread 59m ago

Segmentation Fault

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u/matrix-doge 58m ago

I actually want to know what the problem is, if that's *not* simply a meme.

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u/zapman449 3m ago

I got to build a graph traversal algorithm a few years ago… most compsci thing I,ve done this decade…