Thanks for the post! Original author here. Happy to answer questions.
I've seen radix sort walk all over quicksort for common datasets many times. Knowing your dataset is at least as important as knowing the right algorithm.
Well done!
I always worry that we're just spinning our wheels. But it's great to hear that the extra effort is showing through :)
Did you write each of them yourself or is there a way to automate such simple code already?
It was important to us to not just translate our Python into C++, but to have C++ that was actually good, C++-style C++. So we hired C++ experts to do all the C++ translations. And same for the other languages.
Now, none of us are C++ experts. So how did we know if the contractors we hired were any good? That's a whoooole blog post for another time.
In short: Noah (an engineer on the team) came up with this clever system where we hired a bunch of people to translate the same code sample (as a paid trial task), then we hired a bunch of people to rate those people's translations (again, as a paid trial task). Then we hired the translator who had the best ratings, and we also hired the /rater/ who was most /thorough/--they do code reviews of the translator's code.
Some combination of:
- Did they catch stuff that the other reviewers didn't catch?
- Of the stuff they did catch, does it look to us like that's actually stuff that'll help make our code better, or is it just unhelpful pickiness?
Edit: but it'd make a good one, right?
Curious: what language do you currently use on the site? And how painful is it for you to not have Go or Rust?
(Also, you're talking about having the /content/ in those languages, right? Or supporting those languages in our code editor?)
I use Swift and Objective-C, but I've consulted InterviewCake content for every other language except PHP at some point. The sample data structures and question answers are nice code samples when I need a quick reminder for how to do basic things in languages that I don't use on a regular basis.
Not having Go or Rust isn't a big deal, if I could choose one it'd be Go. I want to learn Go for myself, and asking for a friend for Rust.
I also never use the editor on the site, I write/run the code on my machine. I never liked using the editor the few times I tried it. I see in another comment you made in this thread that a new one is coming soon, so I'm excited to try it. Any chance I could beta test? :)