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by mattkrause 3749 days ago
The weird thing is that some of the "basics" aren't even particularly basic. Finding cycles in a linked list was an open research problem for a while. One can argue that interviewees need to know about the Tortise and Hare algorithm, but it's crazy to think that someone who hasn't should be able to come up with it on the spot.