Trolling is a art.

This. Check out the “Psychological horror” tag for some excellent examples of trolltagging.

For me, a good interview is a dialogue where the company representative shows me as much about the company as I do about me as a candidate. Take-home tasks are okay, I guess, but I suspect they might balk at me requesting they handle a mock HR issue, or whatever, for me!

Yeah, that’s my reading as well.

If you’re optimizing that hard you should probably sort the data first anyway, but yeah, sometimes it’s absolutely called for. Not that I’ve actually needed that in my professional career, but then again I’ve never worked close enough to metal for it to actually matter.

That said, all of these are implemented as functions, so they’re already costing the function call anyway…

This is why I think school and interviews are like a whole different universe from the one where actual work gets done.

“No, Vaas, that’s the definition of practice.”

…well, I do that, and enjoy it, so I guess that’s why I feel like an impostor that has my hobby for a job. “If they figure out how much I enjoy doing this, they’ll cut my pay…”

There is a “Not from a Jedi” joke in here somewhere. I can feel it.

The comments are not for what, they are for why.

The documentation is a summary of the code, a quick guide to the software to more easily find your way to what you need to work with.

Are you saying that when you work with some random library, you skip their documentation and go directly to the source code? That’s absurd. If you do it that way, you’re wasting so much time!

“Water accused of being wet in lawsuit” next, I guess.

Hah, that’s part of what I want to do with z0rz.net