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gameguy43
9y ago
parker@interviewcake.com
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gameguy43
9y ago
CEO of Interview Cake here. We work really hard at trying to not do this. Feedback on where folks get left behind is pure gold to us, because it lets us know what we need to smooth out next. We're not trying to be the /biggest
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gameguy43
9y ago
Thanks! Have a few new questions in the pipeline :) For mock interviews, definitely check out: - http://interviewing.io/ - http://www.byte-by-byte.com/practice-coding-interviews/ - https://w
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9y ago
Eep! Did you notice that the first time we mention big O notation, you can click on it and an inline explanation slides down? Probably not, based on the question! We should make that part louder.
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:( Ok, time to rethink the email opt-ins.
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Really helpful to hear. We were worried about it but thought "once you get into reading the piece you'll probably just forget it's there, right?" We're really focused on trying to "twist the knobs" only up
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9y ago
Thanks for the note. Definitely a great point. Not sure yet how we tier out our product, but tiered pricing is definitely the state of the art. We've been working on some /tech/ to enable tiered pricing in the meantime. The S
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Original Author here. Happy to answer questions about this piece or coding interviews in general! And eager to receive any feedback. Thanks for the post!
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Something on data structures and algorithms. I like /coding interview/ resources for this, because they skip the proofs and get to the point faster. Cracking the coding interview is good So is interviewcake.com (disclosure: I made
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10y ago
Read the first 3 points, saw they had nothing to do with the headline, and bounced.
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Super interesting comparing this to the one we have on Interview Cake: https://www.interviewcake.com/article/big-o-notation-time-an... I like how Rob Bell's piece has headings with the most common time costs--sort
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Coding Interview Tips
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11y ago
Aline Lerner! Former engineer. No bullshit. http://blog.alinelerner.com/
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Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: be careful about that non-promise of a "possibility of getting a bit more into actual software development later." It's very easy for a company to make vague non-promises like this. Co
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"buy a t-shirt!" "I buy a t-shirt >>" This is my new favorite web copy trope.
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Writing an in-place shuffle
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11y ago
Don't copy that floppy!
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12y ago
This. I added https to my site to get users to stop worrying, but AFAIK you don't need it with Stripe.
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12y ago
Oh maaaaan the old graylog2 site had probably my /favorite/ branding in all of software. The heading was "Manage your logs in the dark and have lasers going and make it look like you're from space." https:/&#x
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Implementing a Queue with Two Stacks
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Programmatically Debugging JavaScript Code: a practice coding interview question
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The Cake Thief
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12y ago
Thanks! (I'mma wait on pushing the fix until traffic dies down a bit.)
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Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email
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When I saw your username I was really hoping your comment was going to be about how back in your day you'd "subscribe to podcasts" by adding an rsync to your crontab (and hopefully something something FTP). Almost.
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Yeah, this is what I meant by my confusing question above.
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"Apple Pay doesn’t replace In-App Purchases. You should use Apple Pay when charging for physical goods (such as groceries, clothing, and appliances) or for services (such as club memberships, hotel reservations, and tickets for events)
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The Classic Two Egg Problem
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Great work. Reminds me of Choc, an implementation of Bret Victor's Learnable Programming: http://www.fullstack.io/choc/ I'm really interested in solutions for visually explaining what an algorithm does. Anyon
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Agreed. I'm working on an "advanced" follow-up that digs into log n and a couple other things!
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