De Morgan's laws are complex-and-not-frequently-used?

De Morgan's laws are complex-and-not-frequently-used? What are you even programming? I don't want to hire programmers who have to constantly be looking up how to program--that's an enormous waste of time. It makes sense to be looking up APIs, because interfaces change and have caveats. But DeMorgan's laws, divide and conquer algorithms, basic data structures, should all be in your brain. These are the building blocks of software and if you don't have them you can't build software. > Also, in the real world a candidate would probably google De Morgans laws. So I hand you a function to optimize: def is_taxed(transaction): return (not transaction.buyer.is_nonprofit()) and (not transaction.location.is_duty_free()) What about this problem would indicate to the candidate that they should Google "De Morgan's Laws" if they didn't already know it?

Posted by copsarebastards on May 27, 2015, 10:51 AM

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