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Answer: 1.​ Bubble sort, or in-place insertion sort (or any O(n^2) sort).​ 2.​ Qu.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What are the top 10 algorithms every software engineer should know by heart? Larry Pyeatt, Professor of Computer Science 84.3k views Bubble sort, or in-place insertion sort (or any O(n^2) sort). Quick sort or merge sort (or any O((log n) * n) sort). Building and searching a balanced binary tree (or any tre...  Read More » I hear a lot of stories about people receiving their bachelor's degrees in non-technical fields like literature, arts, etc., but who end up working in finance, investment banking, and trading. How so and why? Joseph Wang, Chief Scientist, Bitquant Research 145.5k views Why? Because investment banking is all about sales and human relations, and if you have a degree in Greek history, that qualifies you as much as a degree in economics. On... Read More » From a recent session What does it take to make a great podcast? Joshua Malina, Actor, currently Scandal and co-host of The West Wing Weekly 1k views Hmm. Interesting question. Hrishi should probably chime in here, as he’s the podcast veteran, and I am the newbie. Off the top of my head, I would say that the most importa...  Read More » What is Elon Musk like in person? Tom Alexander, Europhile, cinephile, sapiophile. I also like to travel. 180.5k views I only spent the one afternoon with him, at a Model S launch event, but was struck by a few things: He’s a much more imposing presence that TV appearances suggest - I was su...  Read More » What kind of education should one follow to be like Tony Stark? Sumontro Sinha, Aerospace Engineer, Small rocket and drone designer and adrenaline junkie 73.7k views Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Nuclear Engineering. Now going into specifics, here are the items that you see i...  Read More » What are upper class values? William Lifferth, Engineering Student 489.8k views While not perfect, I think this table touches on a lot of the subtleties of upper class values and foci. While the middle and upper-middle class put a lot of emphasis and va...  Read More » Why do people generally think that USA navy would win in any naval war simply based on raw data - highly advanced ship, aircraft carrier, submarine? Shane Rooney, Give me a hard question. They are fun. 103.9k views I may expand this answer at a later date. But here is the short version: In Afghanistan, the Taliban could blend in with civilians, or even hide behind them. The Taliban cou...  Read More » What is it like to be named after a commercial product? Siri, award-winning adult film star 319.4k views At least fifty percent of the new people I meet, upon introducing myself, immediately reply with "So YOU'RE the lady in my iPhone I've been talking to! HAHAHA!" People alw... Read More » At what point should founders take a salary from their startup? Joshua Fechter, Head of Growth at a World-Class Startup Network @ gxacademy-com 87.6k views A picture of when I founded my first company (I'm on the left, my co-founder is on the right). Depends on how purpose-driven the founders are. If you’re trying to reinvent th...  Read More » What was your biggest culture shock moving to the United Kingdom? Petter Brenna Rian, Aspiring Renaissance Man 120.2k views In 2009 I moved from Norway to Northern England, to a small city called Lancaster by the beautiful Lake District, about 1 hour north of Manchester, relatively close to the ...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe.