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I read Programming Interviews Exposed (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interviews-Exposed-Secrets...) - which covers lot of topics that come up during interview.

That reads just as a regular while loop.

Learning to code is not hard if you define the code to a smaller step of problem. Learning to code is impossible if you define it as "program for voice recognizition in english and spanish'. If problem is defined as "print Hello World' then you know how to code once you learn to solve that problem. Further more, it is easier problem to solve.

I am currently in between jobs. I spent most of my time catching up on TV shows, Movies and learning dancing.

tl;dr: There are lot of opportunities for software engineers!

6 weeks ago, I left my job and here's my share of the search experience. 1 week after leaving the job, I got a cold email by a company who is 25-min drive away in Foster City. I did initial call with the HR on Dec. 1. On Dec. 2, I did my first phone interview. I was asked to rate my competency in Python and JavaScript on the scale 1-10. Then the interviewer asked me questions that were targeted at that level. I did badly, but not horribly, with the Q/A on technical parts and ok on some of the basic ones. On Dec. 3, I did second phone interview, which went great in the first half and badly in the second half. In the later part, I just started to get nervous and lost my cool. They still felt I was competent, so on Dec. 4 I did a full day of interview. I did 5 different interviews from engineers to CTO and CEO. By the end of the day, I was offered the position @ 135K. This is where you expect the typical ending of me accepting the salary and living happily ever after. Not so fast there, reader. I pressed for higher salary - 25K more than they were offering. They didn't budge and neither did I, so no cigar.

In parallel to interviewing at that company, I also created my profile on Underdog.io. I spent Dec. 5 to Dec. 16 talking with 7 different companies in New York. I saw that their Salary range is lower than in Bay Area so it did not go far.

On Dec. 13, I created my profile on Hired.Me. Since then I have had 5 offers. I have made strong connection with one of the company and will be having in-person interview in a month (I have 3 week family wedding planned in Jan :)).

From my experience, there are so many companies looking for quality engineers. If you are having hired time getting hired, I am open to talk with you. I personally don't pursue working at big companies for the sake of them being big. I am looking for a company where I fit in based on my programming design sense and culturally.

I'm 27/M/Single/SF - so I don't have much constraints as someone who may be older with family or in non-tech savvy part of the county.

The solution doesn't takes into consideration the 'fizzbuzz' output. Your solution would print both fizz and buzz when the int is divisible by both 3 and 5.

Logging to the console with Firebug 3: http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2g253J3F/Image%202014-12-03%20at%202....

Sikh Gurdwara with the family - our tradition.

BiteRant mobile app - for leaving tips on menu entries of a restaurant. Working on figuring out the Android and JSON mashup.

when r u next doing this at metreon

I followed: http://www.peterfriese.de/android-testing-with-robolectric/ I can't get it to run a specific (gives junit 3.8+ required error), but am able to run the whole suit.

Webapp for organizing code snippets as pages: http://harpb.com/static/snipp-t/index.html Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPL-7-XTmDs&feature=youtu.be The editor is very much work in progress and the video highlights base concept for the editor.

Clickable: http://cl.ly/image/0z0H3s3i2c15/Image%202013-10-02%20at%204....

That's just cool: http://cl.ly/image/2a1q381Z3M09/Image%202013-10-01%20at%204....

Wanted to wish ur success in ur adventure - go slay some dragons.

I like it - its pretty much my current app set-up for backbone + marionette, but done in a better structure.

Great 2 minutes of entertainment. Thanks

Thanks alot. Works on WIn8

Build with Backbone http://harpb.com/player/showroom/

Put a smile on my face :) http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fharpb.co...

If using Backbone, then https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette is a MUST. It would cut down on lot of code and it makes code more cleaner. In addition, switch to CoffeeScript.

It is a pretty smooth from 1 page to next. Nice job. Quick Q for you: which api endpoint are you using to get the youtube listing on the frontpage?

I would have liked to see less usage of the word 'awesome' >_>

I would love to hear if you tried Backbone before your build your framework. If so, what are your reasons for making it.