throwaway13000

13 ms·

1. 91.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   Thanks very much. The website doesn't mention any technical mentoring but since you mentioned, I will directly write a mail to him and find out.
2. 92.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   Well, The salary difference between FAANG and most companies on this list easily 100K+/year. And that level, they can ask me to jump through multiple hoops and I will be ready. Its a fairly rational decision on my part.
3. 93.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   >>What are your weak areas/blind spots? I do trees, hash tables fairly well. When it comes to arrays, I usually do well when brute force takes O(N) but optimal solution is O(logN). I do badly when brute force is O(N 2) but optim
4. 94.▲
   Ask HN: Good, experienced engineer but suck at interviews. Looking for a coach

   7 points by throwaway13000 7y ago|8 comments
5. 95.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   Thanks for the comment. I somehow missed it when you responded. I will reply to you offline. I agree with your assessment of entire industry being born overnight. But given that just passing these tests gives $100K+ bump in salary, I think
6. 96.▲
   Ask HN: Good, experienced engineer but suck at interviews. Looking for a coach

   1 points by throwaway13000 7y ago|2 comments
7. 97.▲
   Google now lets you auto-delete your app activity, location and web history(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by throwaway13000 7y ago|0 comments
8. 98.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   For its worth, I am here to buy a real project, mostly to get put into practice everythig I read on hacker news.
9. 99.▲
   by throwaway13000 7y ago

   I agree with the final conclusion. Thanks for answering
10. 100.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    Mind elaborating some of those use cases?
11. 101.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    I don't understand one thing. The customers know that companies are here just to make money. Then why do they think the letter is coming from the heart? Why don't they think it is some marketing guy's ploy to extract little m
12. 102.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    The will also run into same problem, but they will be last man standing
13. 103.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    Atleast giving an idea of the general market would be great. Otherwise, your answer has no meaning
14. 104.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    Tangentially related. If someone wants to sell his side project, please list here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693520
15. 105.▲
    by throwaway13000 7y ago

    Looks cool. Will try it sometime. I have been wanting to do something (auto complete) for desktop linux terminals (gnome-terminal) and such. I could not even get to compile gnome-terminal on my corporate linux box. Now all we need is a good
16. 106.▲
    Ask HN: SF Bay area any accountability groups?

    1 points by throwaway13000 7y ago|0 comments
17. 107.▲
    by throwaway13000 8y ago

    https://cssbattle.dev/ This is good for practice. Was on HN two days ago.
18. 108.▲
    by throwaway13000 8y ago

    Good question. I think I saw a YC company which searches Slack. Can't remeber the name. This is a startup idea waiting to be implemented.
19. 109.▲
    by throwaway13000 8y ago

    Thanks for making this site. I have been wanting one like this for very very long. I am a backend engineer who has trouble understanding the CSS in practice(I have done the tutorials and made many practice questions., but none really clicke