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Old Mar 2, 2017 | 6:25 pm
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Originally Posted by txflyer77
I have a computer science degree and I'm a software engineer at a very high profile tech company. If you asked me to balance a binary search tree after a long-haul flight, I would fail.
Balance a binary tree? I'd go to the bookcase second from the right, second? shelf and grab my copy of Knuth and look up how to do it. It's the sort of thing you use so rarely (I haven't used it since school) that it's not worth memorizing.
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