| Rephrase this as "Facebook Lost a Great Developer" and it begins to make sense, especially if Facebook was actually looking for a "Great Engineer". > I would fire any developer who chose to re-implement standard library functions. Who writes the standard library functions? > never parse HTML without a proper HTML parser Who writes the parsers? On merging arrays in-place: > Aside from having no real-world value, it’s not actually possible It is possible, and has value when dealing with large data sets, which I'm sure is a common issue at Facebook. Here's another way to look at it: "Given two sorted 0.5 terabyte arrays on a terabyte drive, and 1 gb of memory, merge the two arrays without an additional drive." There's no shame in not knowing or caring about things like this (it takes all kinds), but what the poster does (and seems to be good at) just may not be what Facebook was looking for. > At the scale of Facebook, I’m exactly the sort of engineer I’d want many of. Many possibly, but not only. |