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Month: February 2022

The truths and fallacies of “10,000 hours” for developers

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers stated that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to truly master something. That is, however, a ballpark figure and the meaning of the statement has been…

Buh-Bye Netflix… and Hulu… and Paramount… and Apple…

Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

Netflix has raised prices three times since 2017. In the last round, they knocked it up another $2 for the premium 4k service and $1.50 for the standard HD service. Since the…

Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 2

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

10 p.m. No news is no news While I did get contacts on LinkedIn from a couple of recruiters about new opportunities, nothing from the four companies still in the hunt on…

Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 1

Posted on February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

1 p.m. Everything finished up on Thursday. Slept in on Friday and got a 91 sleep score on my FitBit. Always happy when I score an A in sleep. This morning, I…

Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 5

Posted on February 18, 2022February 17, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

I finished up with two more companies, but one with which I had believed I was finished, emailed to ask for a presentation.

Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 4

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

11 a.m. Apologies again. While in the heat of interviewing and interview prep, daily blogging has not been as big a priority. Three down – two to go Quick recap: Two small…

Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 5

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

I like to believe that I’m a seasoned, experienced professional who does good work, yet there’s still a nagging doubt in the back of my mind telling me I’m somehow just good at spinning my past accomplishments and nothing I’ve ever done is good enough.

Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 4

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

ME: “Well, brain. It’s 11 p.m. Seems like a good time to go to sleep.”
MY BRAIN: “Seems like a good time to REHASH EVERYTHING YOU SAID IN YOUR INTERVIEWS TODAY!”

Comparing Two Arrays in Any Order (JavaScript)

Posted on February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

How do you tell if two arrays are equal regardless of the order of their values? In doing some programming exercises in preparation for interviews, I ran across a task that required…

Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 3

Posted on February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

Wow… We’re now at 5 full interviews in process or pending. I’ll finish up with two start-ups this week, start discussions with one or two start-ups this week, and start the loops with three very large corporations (VLCs) Friday.

Interview Questions – Algorithms – Pairwise

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. Given an array of elements and a number as…

Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 5

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

10:00 PM Got an early start today. I needed to code for an interview at 9:30 and use their SDK, so I made sure I had their SDK up and running with…

Interview Questions – Create a Linked List Class

Posted on February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. This is a data structures problem. The question starta…

Notes from the Job Hunt – Late Night Edition

Posted on February 3, 2022February 4, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

…the pronoun in every other sentence is “we” and it is signed with a team name. So where did “I’d” suddenly come from… Is the team itself actually 5 robot lions and that sentence was composed while they were combined as Voltron?

Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 4

Posted on February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

9:00 p.m. Sorry there was no entry yesterday. Things are getting busy. Got that overlap rescheduled yesterday… for today. And I had to get a presentation ready to go because today’s screening…

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