csmajorfive

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by csmajorfive 18y ago
Best highlight: Very nervous guy thanks Bezos for gmail.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Have someone you trust and who knows the topic well ask you questions from a variety of standpoints. Practice answering asshole, condescending questions meant to trip you up. Practice off-the-wall/off-topic questions, just plain hard techni
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
I did the same thing last semester inspired by a class at Cornell. We came up with a very, very simple graph-based algorithm that gets above the competition's baseline (not quite bellkor level but there's lots of tweaking left to be done).
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
I've been using Namecheap.com for years and they've never failed me.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Once you start coding, start sitting in on some CS classes at your college to get some fundamentals down. Data Structures (bonus points if it's in a functional language), Algorithms, Systems, and Architecture are all a must.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
So, what was your answer?
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Cool site. I am working on the same thing (but for school/fun). You should look into Support Vector Machines as they are much better at text classification then kNN.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
So, just curious, why haven't you guys bought dropbox.com from whoever owns it now? Seems like a smart move because if I tell people to "try dropbox", they'll go to dropbox.com first.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Scrabble -- pretty much due to Scrabulous (take that Mattel/Hasbro!). I just like the type of thinking required to consider and place permutations of letters. Learning new words is nice too.
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(1) All sorts of information and collaborative filtering. Examples: Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, etc. Lots on ML in defense these days too -- i.e. here's everyone's call data, who's the terrorist? (2) If you just want to implement or tweak exi
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
It does target to the user based on your searches and other things (assuming you're cookied). It just doesn't ask for explicit input from the user which is counter to the "google way" of abstracting that kind of control away from the user.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Oh god I spent countless hours in that game. There was also something called "Clik N Play" that let you make your own video games.
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It's also one of the better ways to reliably compare people against each other for the type of intelligence and problem solving skills that programming requires.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Take an algorithms course at the best university you have access to. Do all the homework. As for books, I really like Algorithm Design [Tardos, Kleinberg]. It has a ton of really well designed problems to work on.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
I just went through a three week gauntlet of interviews (~10 companies who each do at least 3 1-hour interviews). This slide set is pretty accurate in terms of what to expect but I'd weight the API's/language/philosophy sections down a bit.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
I'm not so sure he supported his family on donations for very long. BitTorrent turned into a pretty well funded venture (of which he is chief scientist) a while ago.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
I just went through a three week gauntlet of interviews (~10 companies who each do at least 3 1-hour interviews). This slide set is pretty accurate in terms of what to expect but I'd weight the API's/language/philosophy sections down a bit.
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Well if you're getting paid a salary, it's not the case that it's riskier for you. You get to enjoy some of the benefits of a startup (culture, equity, etc) without having to go through the period where you're living on credit card debt and
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by csmajorfive 19y ago
Thanks guys. The situation is I've got a couple of very similar offers from companies in the < 50 employee range. One is probably 30 people and the other is nearing the 50 line. Both companies are in the bay area and about a year old. B
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Evaluating a job offer?
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