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I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

Also, a co-author of the Raft consensus algorithm.

What's wrong with talking about animals anyway? Truly bizarre.

A neat trick indeed, using bitsets in a sliding window. Contest programming makes heavy use of some such tricks.

Hi Peter, thanks a lot for doing this. I have a h1b from 2012, i worked in the us for an year using it and returned to my home country. Is it of any use to me now, can i be cap exe…

It's a joke.

Best to forget about that interview and focus on future ones. Frontend engineering doesn't mean you can ignore performance issues in your programs. Binary trees are a very useful d…

Could you share your VR development setup? PC specs, which platforms/devices do you develop for etc...

Each letter is given a weight and it's multiplied by the length of the word it's part of to get its effective weight. Sum it up for all letters and you get the final score. Here, i…

You say it's a superset of C that compiles to C. But why does your example with main() look like Python? It's certainly not valid C code.

Usually SICP is recommended as a follow up to HtDP. It's freely available at https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

I wake up early at 4AM, make a cup of coffee for myself, play 15 min of chess and study Spanish for another 15-20 min. This routine gets me ready to do intellectually intensive wor…

Same exact thing happened to me at Microsoft during the system design interview round. Interviewer wouldn't just let me explain and kept on arguing about a relatively minor issue a…

I noticed I spend too much time reading wikipedia articles, jumping from one to another, so I built a chrome extension to limit that browsing time to a few minutes per day.

That I am not good enough to do the things I dream of doing.

Or Which may be exactly what they want.

I've been making a Django app for over a week because I wanted to learn doing web dev. I hope to finish it another 2-3 weeks. So far, it's been a intimidating and yet fantastic exp…

Lol at the third category - they're at the wrong jobs(for them), perhaps they need to do something on their own, figuring things out themselves!

To me, it looks like you're just having problems with algorithm interviews. I have a solution for you and it's much more effective than textbooks - go to websites like www.spoj.com…

I've never worked in an early stage startup, but what is it exactly that those working more than 100 hours per week do?

I mostly write C++ code on Linux systems. I use ddd for interactive debugging in bigger projects. For throwaway code(C++ & Python), I just use print statements.