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"red-black tree while blindfolded-in assembly"

you are kidding right? most people won't know what that is and if they do they probably can't program one in C if they know programming in C

maybe they'll take someone who looks up what it is, and understands it, before applying

I've never seen anyone post the exact same time as me, especially someone I know.

Don't most CS courses teach them? (Not that mine did, but mine wasn't very good).

Actually the correct answer is "you don't want a red-black tree, you want a splay tree" as it works with just a pair of left/right pointers and requires no extra per-node data.

Splay tree are the moment when you should stop reading your theoretical data structures book, for all practical purposes.

Right, and they don't want "most people" applying. That's the point.

I could probably do it, but not blindfolded -- I'd have to work out (or look up) the details, because R/B-trees are the one data structure I learned in college that I have never once used.

But I do know at least one person who can implement a R/B-tree in assembly off the top of his head. Coincidentally or not, he's at Google now.

It's a joke. If that posting made you smile knowingly and you are also looking for a job, please apply.

Ynews! isn't a job board.

Sure it is

Oops, I thought YCnews was the JOB! Explains why they're so late in mailing my paycheck.

its cool to link to things that might lead to jobs; but not to directly link to a job listing with no other cool information.

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