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Quick suggestions:
- GitHub OAuth would feel natural for devs.
- Broaden language support (C#, TypeScript, Ruby).
- Add dark/light mode toggle for comfort.
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 "…
> Not really understanding the negativity here. In the last year or so HN seems to have attracted a lot of people (plus some bots) who seem to have been socialized on Reddit. I don't know if these people are ignorant of what a good discussion forum can be (because they've never experienced one) or just don't care, but I do wish we could see more reflection on the second-order impacts of posting, and a move away from…
Ended up deciding to buy a subscription, but looks like the site still says "82% claimed" and "17 spots left". I appreciate the one-time purchase model, but feel that it's a bit shady of a tactic.
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…
Seeing how other people solve problems opens up new ways for me to solve my own. Many people are not RTFM but instead want applied examples.
Yeah, this is me very much to the core of my bones, and I think that's why I don't find any pleasure or enjoyment from these synthetic coding challenges, and trying to understand those that do.
I dislike limited offers, because I think you're placing a bit of unfair pressure on the user to buy. But I went ahead and gave you 30 bucks.
I'm going to study this before my next interview, thank you
What threw me off is the expectation that I use the same variable names and exact same code structure. There are many ways to implement effectively the same thing. I understand that it would be very challenging to implement a way to validate solutions in this way, but memorizing exact fragments of code feels like it's optimizing for the wrong thing.
Some might consider that a kind of commentary on the leet code interview format.
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Some might consider that a kind of commentary on the leet code interview format.
After hearing people complain about these fearsome "leetcode interviews" for what feels like a decade now, I have to wonder when I am finally going to encounter one. All I get are normal coding problems.
I've had candidates describe what I'd loosely call "warm-up" questions as leet code problems. Thing like finding the largest integer in an array or figuring out if a word is a palindrome.
Or to put it another way, if I give some applicant a coding problem to solve, and they just write down the solution, I didn't learn much about them except they memorized the solution to my problem. That most likely means I gave them the wrong (too easy) problem. It will only increase the change of me hiring them by a tiny bit.
Edit: I don't hate the player, I hate the game.