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by mlthoughts2018 2502 days ago
This is an extremely disingenuous reply as well. You started off your first reply by saying “the bug only manifests ...” already pre-supposing that the scope of my original comment was restricted to that one thing, and tacitly ignoring all the other aspects of the link.

The (obvious) point is that binary search is widely misimplemented even by professionals writing textbooks (and this had little to do with the specific Java bug responsible for that one example), and this is all stated directly in the link you didn’t read.

It’s comically ill-suited for time based tech screens as even experts teaming with editors often still get it wrong.