Are you smart enough to work at a start-up? • Hacker News Board

Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?

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Post by carlosdp » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:49 AM UTC

Or no one has cared to try... Being able to identify a base-36 number isn't a good measure at all of being a good engineer, obviously. Google used to do something similar to this and then stopped once they figured that out.

Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?

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Post by damncabbage » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:23 AM UTC

Patrick_Devine wrote: post #16

jdoconnor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in ruby '1bp49b'.to_i(36)

I'd be remiss without mentioning it in python: int('1bp49b', 36)

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Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?

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Post by broodbucket » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 8:05 AM UTC

shearnie wrote: post #14

broodbucket wrote: post #5

Kinda silly given they tell you the base...it'd be cooler if they didn't give you the base and you had to play with it until you had something that fit the phone numbers in the area that the company is in Also, where's the startups in Brisbane anyway :-/

There's some of us here in Brisbane. There's just not as much as in Sydney to get that kind of press coverage I think.

As someone soon to be entering the job market, can you suggest a good way to look around? All the dev positions I see around are just generic enterprise Java/.NET/etc for some corporation

Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?

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Post by shearnie » Mon, Oct 07, 2013, 11:26 PM UTC

broodbucket wrote: post #23

shearnie wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's some of us here in Brisbane. There's just not as much as in Sydney to get that kind of press coverage I think.

As someone soon to be entering the job market, can you suggest a good way to look around? All the dev positions I see around are just generic enterprise Java/.NET/etc for some corporation

I actually don't know. I've actually made some contacts within enterprise .Net for contract opportunities. I know that there's quite a few opportunities in the start-up space in entrepreneur meetups in Brisbane go to meetup.com. Although most often it will be the "I have an idea and I want you to be technical co-founder and do all the work for no pay" arrangement being sought after. The Silicon Beach scene has a huge amount of ideas people looking for "technical" so you'll be surrounded by vultures but at least you could pick and choose. Sorry for the late reply.