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I really enjoyed playing it too. One of the more fun things was seeing the scoreboard and competing against engineer friends of mine... it's fun to see that there is a better solut…

I studied computer science at university, but didn't take a programming job straight away - one of the reasons was that I feared being bored (slow death by cubicle). After dipping …

I ran into a similar problem a while back (using Heroku) --- after a brief foray into the world of spam filtering, it turned out to be caused by our domain being identified by Spam…

Agree, I think the tone of this piece is really interesting. It's sadness, laced with evangelism; a hope that the new acquirers will recognise what makes Virgin great, and absorb t…

Oh, I can believe that. But the way said performance is measured -- both types -- is extremely varied. I'd summarize my viewpoint as "whiteboard interviews tell you something about…

It depends how you evaluate the exercise -- for example, don't mark the candidate on correct code and syntax, but reasoning ability, communication, and problem solving. Whiteboard …

Riot Games - Los Angeles, CA / St. Louis, MO - Onsite - Full-Time - Software Engineer We make the game League of Legends, which by various metrics is the most played PC game in the…

Just because you are smart enough to compete in an Olympiad doesn't mean you can function practically on a software engineering team. Whiteboard coding helps the interviewer see ho…

When I was resume screening at Google, we cared about school in terms of interpreting GPA, since 4.0 isn't equal everywhere -- and we got a LOT of resumes. Once the person got to i…

Probably via this mention: https://twitter.com/imdsm/status/708286213975908352

Startups (depending on the size) are both wonderful and terrible places for a new bootcamp grad. There is a lot to learn, and learn quickly, which is something any bootcamp grad ha…

Amazon now offers Elasticsearch as a service; it was a great help for us quickly setting up ELK to test.

I was hesitant to join a game company for pretty much all these reasons, but there are some exceptions out there. I'm working on some interesting reusable platform-level technology…

I didn't know I would enjoy lifting until I tried Crossfit. Now, Crossfit has many good points and just as many detractors - as with anything, the quality of the gym/instruction ca…

I did the same for my classes last year - beginner/intermediate Python, SQL, web development at a part-time night school for adults. Wrote a long detailed tutorial and let the stud…

As she's a she, check out Hackbright Academy. Disclaimer: I used to teach there.

Hmm, I think you may find different responses based on experience level with something like ML in particular. I'm a product focused engineer (former PM) with a master's degree and …

Implementing a Go player using neural networks and reinforcement learning is really fun and taught me a lot about how said techniques work. I only covered the (much easier) 9x9 boa…

I think with a certain definition of training the argument works, but it's not clear if this is actually the definition they had in mind. If you have the choice between hiring two …

"The best choice" is a woolly phrase. Best for whom? Stopping all development to totally rewrite the core game engine is best from a technical perspective, but that's not necessari…

This doesn't feel like particularly new research - my PhD supervisor did work in the area of argumentative zoning nearly 10 years ago: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sht25/Project_Index/…

To address the point of "game developers don't know backends, and backend developers don't know how to build for games"... I want to think aloud about the question "how do you hire…

This is cool, and interesting in a couple of ways. The declarations are preliminary, meaning (I presume) that students may change their minds; according to some studies (e.g. [1]),…

I'm not sure it's made life easier for him yet. He walked 3.5 metres, but how frustrating would it be to lose the use of your legs and then be tantalized by something sort-of-like …