Oh hey that's the question I got for my recent amazon onsite (slightly different constraints). I couldn't find the exact question online and I thought it was a "fair" medium question. IMO this is a pretty good question there's a really easy suboptimal solution so people don't get completely stuck, the optimizations are pretty straightforward and there's a lot of room to demonstrate you can write clean code.
*Fair meaning there's no crazy tricks to it or any obscure algorithms just applying DSA fundamentals.
He's talking about something different (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/04/04/full-line-code-co...). I also found this significantly more comfortable to use than copilot. Completions show up faster, don't try to overpredict (when I was trying out copilot it would often try to suggest large blocks of completely useless code) and doesn't cost anything extra.
I think media like TV/Movies might be fundamentally different than games because of how easy it is to serve pirated content. With games there's a lot of friction with getting cracks working and risks with malware while with TV/Movies you just watch them in your browser. Recently my friends showed me a pirate site that I'm in awe hasn't been taken down. Don't think I can post a link here but it has all the things I'd expect from a paid streaming service (slick and fast ui, large catalog with good discovery options, high quality streams, no lag, random ui niceties like a dimmer switch, skip op/ed and multi language subs). Being honest as long as something like this is available I don't really see what a site like netflix could offer that would convince me to pay.
Actually the more I think about it the less I understand how it hasn't been taken down.
> For bonus points, energy weapons weren't really used because if one hit a shield, it would cause an explosion
This never really made much sense to me. IRRC when an energy weapon hits a shield either the emitter or the shield generator blows up. Since shields are protecting something while the emitter can be anywhere to me the logical outcome seems to be energy weapons everywhere and no shields at all.
Funny story. When I was going the coop workshops in uni they invited in some people from microsoft to talk about what they look for in a cover letter and they straight up said they don't read them.
*Fair meaning there's no crazy tricks to it or any obscure algorithms just applying DSA fundamentals.