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Re:Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth? on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:19AM (#19651103)
What's the best way to learn sales for a technical founder?
Re:A Neat Bitwise Trick for Swapping Even and Odd Bits on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:48PM (#16639901)
You're right, 8 bits is small enough to just store in a table.

This trick will work for any number of bits though. You might not want to use 2^64 entries in your table.

Re:Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate D... on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:53PM (#16579193)
Thanks for your comment. Working on this now!
Re:Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate D... on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:51PM (#16579183)
Hey there. I found that regression models do okay when the feature-set is simple. And I can see that deep learning seems like overkill but I found that it can create models that does justice to the complexity of real estate.
Re:Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate D... on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:28PM (#16579003)
Hey Arubis, you're absolutely right. I copied the model from Scott (even the domain name). I'm unabashedly a huge fan and early subscriber of his newsletter since mid-2014.
Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/mont... on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:43AM (#16509715)
He makes $200k / year from his newsletter: http://www.niemanlab.org/reading/ben-thompsons-stratechery-i...
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curat... on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:24PM (#16364009)
Isn't this basically tumblr?

We'll review your resume

Posted by lawrencewu on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:32PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi! I run Daily Coding Problem with my co-founder Marcel. We have extensive experience interviewing candidates and being interviewed at a lot of tech companies.For a limited time, we're reviewing resumes and giving detailed feedback for a handful of people applying for software engineering jobs. We know what gets resumes seen by recruiters and what impresses hiring managers. If you'd like to...

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Re:Hacking a Google Interview (2009) on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:12AM (#16091305)
You're right, I updated it to reflect that it's paid. I think email address is implied by the newsletter though.

I'm obviously biased but I think the problems are fun and the solutions are valuable. Here are some blog posts I wrote that hopefully give you an idea of our questions:

Given a table of currency exchange rates, determine whether there is a possible arbitrage: https://dailycodingproblem.com/blog/2018/01/02/find-an-arbit...

Picking a random element from an infinite stream: https://dailycodingproblem.com/blog/2017/11/30/random-elemen...

Merging k sorted lists: https://dailycodingproblem.com/blog/2017/11/29/how-to-solve-...

Re:Hacking a Google Interview (2009) on Sunday January 07, 2018 @10:58AM (#16091247)
I run a (paid) newsletter that sends fun coding interview puzzles every day. If you're interviewing around (or if you just enjoy programming problems), check out Daily Coding Problem: https://dailycodingproblem.com/!
Re:How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:00PM (#16011850)
Saved your comment, thanks very much! This was very helpful.

Edit: By the way, the tracker wasn't what.cd, was it?

Re:How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:58PM (#16006805)
Do you happen to know the name of the course? Very interested.
Re:Ask HN: What are you hacking these holidays? on Saturday December 23, 2017 @02:29AM (#15993321)
I'm working on better automation and alerts for my newsletter, Daily Coding Problem (https://dailycodingproblem.com/). Specifically, I set up a bot on Slack and now I want it to message each day's stats (emails sent, open rate, click rate) as well as notify on events (subscribe/unsubscribe, email).

I'm also working on a new landing page!

Re:Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:27PM (#15919507)
Oh god, thanks so much for this. I've literally just been testing on prod and praying that it works.

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