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I Lost My Arm to Microbes, but They Can Save the World(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by otasevic 8y ago|0 comments
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Principles for Success by Ray Dalio in a Video Form(youtube.com)
18 points by otasevic 8y ago|1 comments
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by otasevic 8y ago
It's not only a big expense. It is a stressful, biased and highly ineffective process. There is very little (if any) correlation between performance in interviews today and work performance. It's a hard problem that requires peopl
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by otasevic 8y ago
Thanks! Corrected it now to remove the duplicate line.
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by otasevic 8y ago
Good point. Thanks for the comment. It's likely a bit on the optimistic side, but this focuses on DP problems typically encountered in interviews.
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by otasevic 8y ago
That's awesome! I generally think that DP problems introduce more noise because they're relatively easy to prepare for. So you might easily miss a good engineer who is not prepared. I try to argue about that in the beginning of th
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by otasevic 8y ago
thanks for this comment. I realized that I skipped a few steps in the explanation, so I am updating it now. But essentially you see that the equation is S^2 - S - 2L < 0 from that, you can solve that the roots of the function are: (1) 1&
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by otasevic 8y ago
Yes, currently it is only available for people searching for jobs in the US. I would say the answer is yes long-term, but probably not over the next few months.
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by otasevic 8y ago
I agree. This blog is hosted separately from our servers so I went for a quick deployment of WP on google cloud. Learning: do not use google cloud VM micro instance, apparently it cannot support even moderate traffic.
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by otasevic 8y ago
Thanks for sharing the link while it was down. Appreciate it.
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by otasevic 8y ago
Hey everyone, sorry for this. It should be back up: http://blog.refdash.com/dynamic-programming-tutorial-example...
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Solving dynamic programming interview problems(blog.refdash.com)
461 points by otasevic 8y ago|164 comments
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by otasevic 9y ago
Yes, you get to fast-track through interviews at multiple companies. As far as the experience of the interviewers goes, we're pretty careful about it in our on-boarding process. Even more than the experience we look for open-minded eng
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by otasevic 9y ago
I'm a co-founder of Refdash. Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I largely agree with things that you said. I think that interviews need to become significantly less stressful and more objective. One way in which we're approaching
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by otasevic 9y ago
If you're currently looking for a job, give it a try. I would love to hear your feedback on the process.
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Show HN: Interview with ex-Google engineers, get feedback and land a job(refdash.com)
5 points by otasevic 9y ago|1 comments
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First Interview with the new CEO of Microsoft(youtube.com)
1 points by otasevic 13y ago|0 comments
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Just who is Microsoft's Satya Nadella(usatoday.com)
1 points by otasevic 13y ago|0 comments