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But guess what, most programmers today don't know what a red-black tree is.

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a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

noun

a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"

noun

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tree.

noun

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

noun

a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"

noun

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

verb

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

verb

plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

verb

chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"

verb

stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

Example sentences

But guess what, most programmers today don't know what a red-black tree is.

The son then says, "Yeah, she thought it might be a tree falling on the house or a meteorite.

Pending comments are now per thread, or more precisely per item tree, rather than sitewide.

Iterators are introduced as an abstract interface to list-, array- and tree- walking.

Which underlying algorithm?The search engine was built on a ternary tree with a custom merging algorithm.

Since the gcc maintainer was the bottleneck, we simply declared our tree a new fork with the support and participation of other major developers.

That implements Erlang-like mailboxes and network clustering, and I've got a supervisor tree implementation on deck for Github too.

Learning shirasasana without learning its spiritual yogic root is akin to calling yourself a programmer and not knowing what a red-black tree is.

A programmer's salary is great, but why can't I work 20 hours as a programmer, and 20 hours as a tree-planter, or teaching rock climbing to high school kids, for maybe 55% of a programmer's salary?

He introduced us to our lawyer,\nWilson Sonsini, and he was even the one who introduced us to Sequoia.\nYC now does many intros per day, but if you follow the tree back\nto the beginning, Sam was the root node.

I'm reminded of this quote, attributed to the Cree Native Americans:"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree.