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New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: How do you prepare for a Technical Interview"

harpb — Fri, 08 May 2015 21:26:52 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Rapydscript: Python-like pre-compiler for JavaScript"

harpb — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:01:45 +0000

That reads just as a regular while loop.

MineSweeper in ReactJS

harpb — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 03:35:45 +0000

Article URL: http://harpb.github.io/bug-sweeper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9016331

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by harpb in "Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard"

harpb — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:50:15 +0000

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.

New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: What would you do if you could take a break from your career?"

harpb — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:19:09 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope"

harpb — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:42:58 +0000

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.

New comment by harpb in "FizzBuzz: the test helps filter out the 99.5% of programming job candidates"

harpb — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:44:31 +0000

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.

New comment by harpb in "Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox"

harpb — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:23:31 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: What do you do on New Year's Eve?"

harpb — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:44:04 +0000

Sikh Gurdwara with the family - our tradition.

New comment by harpb in "What are you building over the holidays?"

harpb — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 02:29:29 +0000

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

How I not do Work

harpb — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 23:06:17 +0000

Article URL: http://harpb.com/blog/2013/12/25/how-i-not-do-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6964627

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by harpb in "Show HN: Killed our 6-month old photo startup, and this came out of it"

harpb — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:42:47 +0000

when r u next doing this at metreon

New comment by harpb in "IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers"

harpb — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:07:34 +0000

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.

New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

harpb — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:56:43 +0000

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.

New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: Domain Searching"

harpb — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:49:15 +0000

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

Ask HN: Domain Searching

harpb — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:49:06 +0000

What do you use for searching and keeping track of domain ideas? I use whois.cc and domai.nr for domain name checking, but I am not aware of any tool for keeping track of domain searches by project. Google did not help, so I am reaching to the community for possible solutions. Here is my concept of ideal solution: http://cl.ly/image/0z0H3s3i2c15/Image%202013-10-02%20at%204.44.27%20PM.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486232

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by harpb in "Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped"

harpb — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:36:02 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Ask HN: How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?"

harpb — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:24:52 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Yapp.js: Build large client-side applications in a structured way"

harpb — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 04:04:44 +0000

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

New comment by harpb in "Gif Dance Party"

harpb — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:44:52 +0000

Great 2 minutes of entertainment. Thanks