<story><title>Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/962424365819277312</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t read the link, because twitter links never work on my phone... always &amp;#x27;something went wrong&amp;#x27; and saying I am rate limited.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Very interesting thread -- if you&amp;#x27;re the type of person who comes to the comments before deciding whether to read, I recommend it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like to point out that today in 2019, linked lists perform like absolute dog shit in many real-world contexts even where they have the best big-O notation.&lt;p&gt;Somebody jumping straight to a solution based on linked lists without at least mentioning memory latency is a sure-fire sign that they have never done detailed CPU performance work. (Which is not necessarily a requirement for most programmers, but it&amp;#x27;s one piece of signal among others).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>As far as I can tell, this is some sort of thing that Twitter does to Safari users because it can&amp;#x27;t fingerprint them well and thinks it might be abuse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/962424365819277312</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t read the link, because twitter links never work on my phone... always &amp;#x27;something went wrong&amp;#x27; and saying I am rate limited.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Very interesting thread -- if you&amp;#x27;re the type of person who comes to the comments before deciding whether to read, I recommend it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like to point out that today in 2019, linked lists perform like absolute dog shit in many real-world contexts even where they have the best big-O notation.&lt;p&gt;Somebody jumping straight to a solution based on linked lists without at least mentioning memory latency is a sure-fire sign that they have never done detailed CPU performance work. (Which is not necessarily a requirement for most programmers, but it&amp;#x27;s one piece of signal among others).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>Based on referrer I think. Links from big sites like reddit or hn are often rate limited. Reloading the page wipes referrer and fixes it.</text></comment>