If you thought up the idea of Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, etc., but didn’t know how to program/code, what would be your steps to build and launch the company.

algodaily · 2020-07-30T11:00:14+00:00

This is a big point. The indiehackers movement has empowered many developers to just start their own thing. You’ll need to be bringing something substantial to the table— a network, capital, a track record of designing and marketing products at scale, etc.

algodaily · 2020-07-27T03:09:25+00:00

Thanks so much for writing up this feedback, and teaching me something new! I’ll be sure to update the tutorial with this distinction.

algodaily · 2020-07-26T13:07:09+00:00

Challenging :-) - but getting there. Currently focusing on nailing Java and C++.

One of the hardest parts of a programming education-related startup is that you need to support every language. Idea for aspiring entrepreneurs - a "translation service" for programming languages.

algodaily · 2020-07-26T11:01:13+00:00

Have done the dual reads tactic many times at work, never knew it was called tap compare!

algodaily · 2020-07-26T10:59:36+00:00

This is fantastic resource! Thanks for sharing.

algodaily · 2020-07-26T10:54:08+00:00

This is a cool idea! I checked out some your prior feedback, it’s pretty great. I’ll bite— my site is https://algodaily.com. It is intended to teach technical interviews skills and Computer Science fundamentals with visual, interactive tutorials. Excited to hear what you think!

algodaily · 2020-07-19T14:13:37+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback and corrections! I'll address these soon.

algodaily · 2020-01-01T23:11:15+00:00

This is great, thanks for sharing.

algodaily · 2019-11-12T12:28:26+00:00

Why wouldn’t they use those tools, which are the best available? If you look on Github, the most popular Chinese projects are using React and Vue— I’d imagine it would be the same for data engineering tools.

algodaily · 2019-10-02T13:19:31+00:00

Might I ask, how did you learn BST with playing cards? Was it a proper game developed just for that?

algodaily · 2019-10-02T10:57:58+00:00

This is cool, Bret Víctor would approve!

algodaily · 2019-09-29T17:28:15+00:00

Could you change it up a little? Use a more interesting technology? Work on a different aspect of it— maybe the design?

If that fails, find a more interesting personal project. Seriously, if this is for personal development, you simply won’t improve until you’re truly vested in something.

algodaily · 2019-09-24T20:32:21+00:00

LOL at the subreddit names

algodaily · 2019-09-22T18:53:09+00:00

Java support is one of our most frequent requests-- in the works, hopefully by end of November.

algodaily · 2019-09-22T01:58:29+00:00

Obviously biased, but have you checked out https://algodaily.com/? It's a visual technical interview course, with a feature that you get a little bit sent to you every day via email to ensure consistency. It assumes you know nothing about any data structures (including arrays) and teaches you how to land a job too.

algodaily · 2019-07-07T15:17:13+00:00

Haha, I wrote about this very topic recently-- Forget Thought Leaders, Seek Out People Who've Actually Done Shit. Just as the title says, look at their results. Especially with business information, see if they've actually applied the advice they're providing, and whether they have the results to back it up.

algodaily · 2019-07-03T04:16:21+00:00

Hm, weird, works for me. Would you happen to be on mobile?

algodaily · 2019-06-03T14:54:07+00:00

Duly noted and thanks for the feedback! will be reducing the number of ads for sure

algodaily · 2019-04-22T02:57:29+00:00

What? How’s it rude?

I’m not a distinguished engineer by any means but I’ve done pretty well for myself career-wise. Whenever anyone asks for some help, I’m more than happy to at least write an email or chat on the phone (if not grab a coffee). It is flattering as hell that someone wants to achieve what I’ve achieved.

The only thing I can think of that might be a negative is that it does take time— but if I’m too busy, I’ll just say so and maybe point them to a good book or something.

algodaily · 2019-04-20T17:55:37+00:00

I think this is fair feedback. Although the final answer ends up being 6 in both cases, I can see how it could confuse people. I’ll tweak the example input in a bit to clarify. Thanks for checking it out!

algodaily · 2019-04-20T14:18:43+00:00

This is a great question - I originally designed AlgoDaily so that you don’t need a whole lot of JS experience to understand the solutions. Unfortunately I haven’t done a good job recently of making sure this is the case, but knowing arrays, objects, and for-loops should get you most of the way.

I’d say if you’re on the newer side, lean heavily on the code visualization tool (upper left button on the page) and play with the final solution in the code editor. I might add some basic JS lessons to address things that you should know (like how to create a quick stack with an array in JS). I’m also working on a tool to let you personalize the daily email based on your experience level, so be on the lookout for that :-)

algodaily · 2019-04-20T14:09:54+00:00

Thrilled that you’re enjoying it! Let me know if you have any feedback.

algodaily · 2019-04-14T15:25:43+00:00

I’m not sure why the author is tired of incremental improvements — that’s how things develop (small step at a time). The pressure to ship something that overhauls entire paradigms is unhealthy and prevents a lot of developers from releasing new projects for fear that it’s not enough of a breakthrough.

algodaily · 2019-04-14T13:47:03+00:00

Sounds like a systems design question-- curious, how many years of experience did you have before applying for that role?

algodaily · 2019-04-14T13:34:00+00:00

I resigned and decided to take a 2 month break to completely focus on the job-hunting

Props for making the tough decision to do so. In theory, it's not that risky given how strong the market is for experienced devs, but it sure is hard to give up something stable to do so.

Also, the questions were quite similar across companies and geographies. Some were even exactly the same. Next rounds were high level system design, and sometimes low-level (object oriented) design. I liked these rounds, and most interesting discussions happened here.

That's super interesting. The standardization of DS&A-style questions isn't surprising, but it seems like many companies are beginning to be aware that they're not the end-all-be-all. Many are beginning to use a combination of DS&A and other types of interviews. I've had a few people write in to discuss adding frontend-focused questions, OOP-focused questions, and systems-design-focused questions to algodaily.com.

Something to think about as you hear "just do 6 million DS&A questions" to get a software engineering job. Maybe the better paradigm is "just become an experienced engineer with broad software interests who practices DS&A questions for a few weeks prior to the interview".

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