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The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stevage ◴[17 Nov 25 12:05 UTC] No.45952883[source]▶
>Many software developers will argue that asking a candidate to reverse a binary tree is pointless

Is "reversing a binary tree" actually a thing, or is this a cute kind of "rocket surgery" phrase intentionally mixing reversing a linked list and searching a binary tree?

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1. nitnelave ◴[17 Nov 25 12:19 UTC] No.45952961[source]▶
I think it's a reference to the Google interview problem that the author of Homebrew (IIRC) failed. They were quite upset about it since they have proved their worth through their famous open-source contributions, but got rejected in a LeetCode-like interview.