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by bcjordan 13y ago
> I do have to say that as someone who sometimes conducts technical interviews, I'm not sure I would actually give this question to an interviewee, unless I was leaving him or her alone to work for a couple of hours, because of how
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Programming Interview Question: Eight Queens(jetheis.com)
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Defeating a Bot's Swear Word Searches in Haskell(jonathon-vogel.com)
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3D Printer made entirely within Minecraft(youtube.com)
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by bcjordan 13y ago
Fell in love with Pandoc after seeing my friend's online course notes[0] processed using it. Since then I have been playing with it to simul-publish HTML[1] and PDF[2] cheat sheets from markdown for a course I'm working on[3]. It&
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by bcjordan 13y ago
I imagine so you can then have users make Vine private API calls directly (making it harder for Vine to detect and shut down).
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This is a lot of fun http://i.imgur.com/seMWVWv.png
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For the confused, blub is the hypothetical language from pg's essay Beating the Averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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Watch mini-projects written in real-time using HTML/CSS/JS(thecodeplayer.com)
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If you want long-term exposure to a stock but don't want to implicitly make a bet on short-term value, chunk your purchase up into smaller amounts and do it over time (1/10th every day over the next week). Forget what this is call
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Hackers vs. Software Engineers(dandreamsofcoding.com)
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A Coding for Interviews [1] group member mentioned that reading through the Java collections library [2] was the most valuable step he took while preparing for his Google interviews. In addition to getting a better understanding the standar
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by bcjordan 13y ago
Serious question—are "hackathons" starting to be known as "hacks"? Have heard it a couple of times now.
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Adobe password leak hint / email checker from LastPass(lastpass.com)
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Wow, frisson-producing photograph [1]. I remember waiting for the mars rover to land on NASA TV, and watching the celebration [2]. Can't imagine what it might have felt like watching the moon landing live. [1] http://www.red
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You could have a few people collude to collect a number of incoming seeds on the same level and compare for non-random seeming collisions.
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Udacity launching paid course enrollment(udacity.com)
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It is a way for Valve to drive their own platform adoption (a purchaser on Humble Bundle store is committing to opening Steam each time they play their game).
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That's definitely the way to go. If you try to "remember" an answer you read or even previously completed while in an interview there's a good chance you won't instantly recall the answer and often the problem is sl
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by bcjordan 13y ago
This is a really comprehensive list of tips, thanks Parker! Definitely including this in next week's Coding for Interviews newsletter.
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Don't short change yourself, it sounds like you already have some fairly significant programming experience (assuming that's Ming's intro to web dev course and something with Professor Ramsey in there). > the shortest path
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by bcjordan 13y ago
What I'm still wondering... was Horse_ebooks was linking to completely unaffiliated spammy content, or did they build an entire constellation of shitty websites? And, most importantly, who actually wrote this visitor-triggered cron job
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GameAnalytics goes free(blog.gameanalytics.com)
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This is a space ripe for disruption. I ordered a bouquet from ProFlowers 5 years ago using a throwaway email (spamgourmet). Fast forward a few months and I'm getting unsolicited spam from businesses completely unaffiliated with ProFlow
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horse-ebooks.com now goes to quotestatusjoke.com. What does this iframe on quotestatusjoke.com do? http://quotestatusjoke.com/twitter/tw.php The contents say: > Now 07:27 - we work from 14:00 And a cached version sa
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Multiplayer voxel world in Closure, written during Google's 20% time(benvanik.github.io)
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Thought the one I got was really funny so I peeked at the source. Maybe that second 32 <= score < 35 text is a work-in-progress? :) 20>score? Here's a fun fact: If you just blindly clicked 'yes' for every answer, you
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Though I have felt the intuition you mentioned, here's a study that found that test-then-study-then-test leads to better recall than just-study-then-test: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/335.ab
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Polygonal map generation for games(www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
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Interactive js diagram: Car Blind Spots(theory.stanford.edu)
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