Yup. Even though the name of my blog is Startup Next Door, I’m done with startups. I knew a year ago that I wouldn’t start another company, or work at another startup. What About my Startups? I’ll still run zKorean and TalkToTheManager, but since everything is automated, the time…
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If you’ve been following my adventures, you’ll know I’ve been doing startups for years, and this last year has been no different. I’ve treated these last 11 months like a startup (studying full-time to build my skills to be more marketable), with the goal of getting acquired…
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To all recruiters, welcome. I’m available to hire immediately in the greater Seattle area. Eastside is preferred since I live in downtown Bellevue, but I’ll commute if I must. No telecommuting, please. I want to work in an office. I learn more from my team that…
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I’ve become frustrated at the time it takes me to solve some coding problems while practicing for the coding interview. I’ve spent as much as 2 hours on a single problem. A typical coding interview question should take approximately 40 minutes to complete from initial explanation to…
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I’m a fan of tries. I can’t claim that I’ve used them in practice, but I wish I had. They’re super! Common uses: substring search spell check autocomplete This is an implementation I just put together. Enjoy! Trie API: add(word) - Add the given word to the…
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I thought I was done reading books for the learning phase of my study process, and was itching to get back to the coding problems phase. But something was missing. I had read several books and watched months worth of videos, and the code I had seen along the way was C, Java, C++, but not too much…
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I’ve been asked numerous times, “How do you remember all the stuff you’ve been studying?” Here’s my method that will keep all the good stuff in your brain. My Mistake in the Beginning When I first started studying, I was watching videos all day long, taking tons of…
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For doing daily programming problems, I started using this Algorithm Design Canvas created by HiredInTech. Their methodical process is really good. Check it out. By the way, their design canvas is the starting point for the Coding Question Practice section on Coding Interview University. This is…
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Large whiteboards are expensive. For the do-it-yourself type, you can pick up a wall panel at your local home improvement store. Just look for “melamine wall panel”. It’s a very inexpensive, large board meant to be a wall panel for areas with high humidity, like laundry…
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Well, it’s taken many months to get to this point, because I had a lot to learn. With no formal computer science training and not knowing the difference between a heap (data structure) and a heap (dynamic memory allocation), it took much longer than I expected to get this far. Now on to doing…
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