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by kahseng 15y ago
The three week-long problems are now up here: http://www.quora.com/CodesprintQuora
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by kahseng 15y ago
Just started now!
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by kahseng 15y ago
It will be when the contest starts.
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by kahseng 15y ago
Don't worry. We actually have it in 2 parts. 4 questions in a sprint over 5 hours, 3 other questions lasting a week. You might find the weeklong ones more fun.
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by kahseng 15y ago
These aren't stuff we are looking to use ourselves. We're choosing these problems (which we have already solved in a more complex form ourselves) because we think it'll be interesting for others to try to apply their programming skills at "
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by kahseng 15y ago
Announcing Codesprint Quora, the first-ever company sprint, in collaboration with InterviewStreet (YC S11). Feel free to ask us questions anytime at codesprint@quora.com Questions will also be posted at http://quora.com/CodesprintQuora so
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Hardcore coding contest by Quora & InterviewStreet(quora.interviewstreet.com)
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CodeSprint Quora programming contest on Sat 3/3(quora.com)
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Autistic Girl Expresses Unimaginable Intelligence(youtube.com)
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Quora adds Boards and Becomes a Little More Like Pinterest(mashable.com)
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Quora Expands Beyond Q&A, Launches ‘Boards’(techcrunch.com)
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Announcing the Startup America Policy Challenge(whitehouse.gov)
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Quora engineer pays tribute to Steve Jobs with New York Times crossword(thenextweb.com)
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NY Times Crossword Honors Steve Jobs with Puzzle Written by Quora Engineer(allthingsd.com)
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Quora for iPhone Features(quora.com)
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Q: When Will Quora Release An iPhone App? A: Now.(techcrunch.com)
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Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature(itunes.apple.com)
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The Thick Edge of Quora(semilshah.wordpress.com)
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Working and playing hard at Quora(quora.com)
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by kahseng 16y ago
Apologies, it's sounds harsher than it is :) I misspoke. That statement can't quite get any harsher I would think :)
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by kahseng 16y ago
There's no forcing done here actually. I worked on a Windows stack for many years (including loving the Visual Studio IDE). Eclipse or other IDEs would not be counter-cultural at all, it's just there isn't a need for that given the language
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by kahseng 16y ago
It's harsher than it sounds (Adam admits that too), but I think that's been up there since forever. If you come by (maybe interview?), you can find out for yourself if you'll be a good fit.
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by kahseng 16y ago
I have a 28" external monitor at home for myself. I also value portability more if I want to work away from the desk. Vim tabs and navigation is okay on small screens too. Works for me :)
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by kahseng 16y ago
You must have been typing while I was. Yes, thanks for providing that perspective. I echo your thoughts too.
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by kahseng 16y ago
I guess too quick a tie-in to a recruiting sell?
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by kahseng 16y ago
Thanks for enjoying, do you have a suggestion on how to improve it? Not sell hiring at the end perhaps?
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by kahseng 16y ago
Not everyone goes for yoga. It's not mandatory for all. There are times when only a handful of the team goes. Same for team lunches together. Thanks for the compliment!
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by kahseng 16y ago
Quora is growing and the more people we hire the more we can do. You can actually seem when a question was asked on Quora, if you click on the last activity timestamp on the question. It's just not that easily accessible because we want to
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by kahseng 16y ago
We all get our own. Mine was named "devkahseng" if you saw that :) Yes EC2 supports persistence in the file system with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes.
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by kahseng 16y ago
We also do pre-commit reviews for the important stuff, especially things related to privacy and anonymity. We know when to do them pre-commit or post (which is the norm).

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