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Re:A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer on Saturday August 25, 2012 @10:55AM (#4432195)
Donated $50. Get well Ken.
Re:Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety? on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:47PM (#1619243)
Thanks. It was very inspiring to read your entire text. I will definitely try answering fewer questions more thoroughly & practice being cogent, neat and presentable. I have been playing back my last interview repeatedly on my mind to figure out all places where I might have not come out very presentable to the interviewers. Hopefully these course corrections will get me a new opportunity. I am in total agreement with the 'false negative' comment. Thanks again.
Re:Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety? on Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:53PM (#1618621)
Thank you for your suggestions. Top companies are always looking to see how well potential employees perform under crunch situations. My gut feeling is that they expect to see employees perform calmly even under pressure. They would like to see employee solve problems logically, quickly and deliver the solution in a more coherent manner. I would expect the same if I am at the other end of the table. I would like to be able to be that kind of a performer.
Re:Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety? on Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:41PM (#1618579)
I have decided to stop preparation at the least 1-2 days before the interview. However, I have attended only 2 interviews & I cannot say for sure that this did not help. Probably, I might do better in my next interview. Will have to just wait and watch.
Re:Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety? on Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:34PM (#1618550)
Just during interviews

Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety?

Posted by iamanet on Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

HNers, I have attended 2 interviews so far in the past 4 years & I have failed to get the job on both the interviews. I just get very anxious during in person interviews & I am not able to think straight at all. I could only give out answers to questions for which I knew the answers before hand. I am not good at deducing answers logically during interviews. For instance on my last...

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Ask HN: Which website allows you to sell merchandise online cost effectively?

Posted by iamanet on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am looking to sell some items online. What web sites are out there that allows you to sell items cost effectively? I looked at eBay but they charge to list items for sale & also they take a percentage on the sale price of the item. This is in addition to the transaction fees. I stumbled across www.highwire.com and they charge only like $6.95 monthly fee but the transaction charge via...

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Re:Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes on Thursday July 15, 2010 @03:19PM (#1518831)
Nope ;-) I even searched for related math books by these course instructors but no luck.
Re:Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes on Thursday July 15, 2010 @03:18PM (#1518827)
What you say is very true. I guess the whole idea of this course was to equip students with the necessary Math skills to comprehend courses like Algorithms and data structures especially the CLRS's 'Introduction to Algorithms' book. At the least these notes helped me comprehend that book ;-)
Re:Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes on Thursday July 15, 2010 @03:15PM (#1518809)
Nope there are no videos but the notes are simple to understand since they are very clearly explained.
Re:Why Programming Isn’t For Me on Monday July 12, 2010 @12:40PM (#1508470)
Very well said
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on today? on Friday July 09, 2010 @01:18PM (#1501377)
It is a fun app. It mostly said I write like Issac Assimov except when I gave it a bunch of python code it said I write like Edgar Allen Poe. I guess this is a clear signal that I should drastically improve my Python programming skills.
Re:The Most Important Algorithms on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @02:41AM (#1490189)
Thanks. BTW, here is the correct link for the book that you referred to on your comment - http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/AD.pdf.
Re:The Most Important Algorithms on Monday July 05, 2010 @07:22PM (#1489402)
I am going through Cormen et al. with the objective of getting my feet wet but the whole process is painfully slow. I thought it would be nice to have at least some familiarity on the widely used algorithms across the globe. However, you are right on ditching programming languages with huge boot times. I am happily trying out my algorithms in Python.
Re:The Hacker News Experiment on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @01:04AM (#1451009)
Interesting. I am open if you are considering collaboration which will give one additional man month to finish the project. I am familiar with C, C++ and Python.