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Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by mylifeandtimes »

embedding-shape wrote: post #9

I learned the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184676 ) that people who aren't students apparently use LeetCode too, for recreational purposes? I'm not sure why you'd work on someone else's imaginary problem instead of doing something for yourself, so apparently it's there and some people enjoy it, regardless of my understanding of it. But then I don't know how to reconcile the idea that some people…

some people like to play with Rubiks Cubes, which among other things is a nice tactile way to learn some interesting advanced math

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by dzonga »

and yet people still can't build software.

now the same people in the industry advocating for leetcode are also advocating for vibecoding. I wonder if an LLM is made to do leetcode before approval for vibecoding.

day in day out, the software gets worse, delayed, shipped with bugs, very slow yet yeah prove to us you can build software by doing puzzles

if you advocate for leetcode - fxxk yxx.

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by neilv »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #28

Any company using leetcode as their primary way to assess competency is time wasting, soulless black hole unworthy of any real talent.

Any company still using LeetCode at all during interviews is signaling that either they are run like a frat house, or are so dim/indifferent that they're unwittingly cargo-culting one.

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by inesranzo »

This project has potential but there are some issues with "Marketing" (I call this lying depending on how it's done)

Please stop with the false urgency and borderline lying to people saying there are 17 spots when they most likely aren't.

Doing this to sell more is unethical and dishonest.

I think if this project didn't do this it might work and go far.

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by johnhamlin »

henwfan wrote: post #19
epolanski wrote: post #13

I like the idea, and you've got yourself a customer :) The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for. Not really understanding the negativity here. We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning. You show a chess master a position, he/she can instantly tell you what the best moves are without "thinking" or "…

Thank you, I really appreciate you signing up. I agree with you on pattern recognition. AlgoDrill is built around taking patterns people already understand and turning them into something their hands can write quickly under pressure. You rebuild the solution line by line with active recall, small objectives, and first principles explanations after each step, so it is more than just memorizing code. You are also right…

Another +1 for TypeScript from a new lifetime subscriber. Great site!

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by Mars008 »

baq wrote: post #18
epolanski wrote: post #13

I like the idea, and you've got yourself a customer :) The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for. Not really understanding the negativity here. We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning. You show a chess master a position, he/she can instantly tell you what the best moves are without "thinking" or "…

I don't know if I feel any negativity, but this is the first time I actually thought 'the price of subscription is approximately equal the price of Opus tokens needed to build a custom version of this for myself'... and got a bit scared TBH

> approximately equal the price of Opus tokens needed to build

this is probably not accidental.

Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

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Post by noident »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #28

Any company using leetcode as their primary way to assess competency is time wasting, soulless black hole unworthy of any real talent.

I don't like doing the leetcode grind, but all of the alternatives are strictly worse.

* Take home projects filter out people with busy lives. Wastes 100 people's time to hire 1 person. Can't be sure they didn't cheat. No incentives to stop company from giving you a 10 hour assignment and then not looking at it. The candidate with the most time to waste wins.

* Relying on academic credentials unfairly favors people from privileged backgrounds and doesn't necessarily correlate with skill as an engineer.

* Skipping the tech interview and just talking about the candidate's experience is prone to favoring bullshitters, plus you'll miss smart people who haven't had their lucky break yet.

* Asking "practical" questions tends to eliminate people without familiarity with your problem domain or tech stack.

* We all know how asking riddles and brainteasers worked out.

With leetcode, the curriculum is known up front and I have some assurance that the company has at least has some skin in the game when they schedule an engineer to evaluate me. It also tests your general knowledge and in some part intelligence as opposed to testing that you have some very narrow experience that happens to overlap with the job description.

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