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> Especially since this kind of thing is best done on the job by looking in a good textbook or using the standard library.

The way that job interviews continue to fixate on having a huge amount of information stored in your head, rather than your ability to be resourceful, is so frustrating. Oh well, maybe it's about time I go back to Leetcode and see how quickly I can grind out a recursive DFS algorithm...



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