Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion - Page 10454

On August 01 2021 02:53 Erasme wrote:
i cant believe people would play male shep over fem shep

On July 28 2021 04:34 TheEmulator wrote:

Yea this seems like something eieio can help with. Seems like you might just be missing some fundamentals, which is common with people that skipped undergrad CS.


Leetcode premium is one of the few services in the software/tech world that I would ever recommend paying for considering you can generally find any other resource online for free. With that being said if you aren't targeting top tier companies that do leetcode/whiteboard interviews it might also be a bit overboard. As you said you aren't being asked to whiteboard that often, and if you are I doubt you're getting medium/hard level leetcode questions.

I personally used it and most of the interviews I got here in Canada were far easier in comparison. The company I'm at asked me a variation of "two sum" which is literally the most answered leetcode easy on the entire site lol.

If you haven't actually had to take a DS/Algo course for your Masters I'd recommend looking up some online OCW courses. Also look into getting a copy (actual copy or free PDF, up to you) of Cracking the Coding Interview. Easily the most recommended book for new grads. It goes over some of the basics and has a shit load of practice questions.

If you don't mind math heavy/rigorous reading the CLRS Intro to Algorithms book is literally the bible for the subject.


Good luck

On July 30 2021 09:57 eieio wrote:
Alright so some interview stuff:

• leetcode and hackerrank and stuff are not bad, I think. A thing that they really miss out on is that, depending on the company, folks are trying to get a sense of what it'd be like to work with you - not just whether you can run through some algorithms. If nothing else, when you work problems from those sites, you want to practice talking out loud as you do stuff / pretend that you're working on the problem with somebody. That way it's less weird when you're actually on the phone. But the sites are a good way to get exposure to algorithmic questions!
  
• Many years ago I read ~all of CLRS cover-to-cover to prepare for some interviews (before landing my first "good" dev job). I am a college dropout. It was really helpful. It's also a whole lot of work, and it's intimidating. I love that book though.
  
• I will DM you some contact info comeh, we can just talk or I can fake interview you or we can go over some questions that you feel like you've done poorly on or something.
  
• also I literally just recorded a mock interview for my company, it's online, I'm not gonna post it here (I'm embarrassed and don't want to dox myself that hard) but I'll DM it to you and I'm happy to share it with other folks.
  
• If you talk to anyone that knows stuff about interviewing they agree that it's just super hard and error prone (on the interviewer side too) and, while I know this is actually kinda impossible, do your best to not take the failures personally - basically every interview process is just bad :/
  

On August 01 2021 15:26 Unleashing wrote:
We still know nothing about tickets for TI.

What the fuck valve.

On August 01 2021 16:13 HwangjaeTerran wrote:
Looking for serious office job with a degree - broke

Comeh bathtub smurfpool stream - wøke af

On August 02 2021 09:20 Comeh wrote:

I do still stream occasionally - at shitty 4k skill level. Also I got a fuckin creepy ass viewer that basically sexually harassed me the other day. That was pretty fucked up.

On August 01 2021 02:53 Erasme wrote:
i cant believe people would play male shep over fem shep

Meanwhile, more than 90 minutes after the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi won a shared high jump gold medal, he was still celebrating in the empty Tokyo Stadium. After he had cleared 2.37m, along with the Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim, the pair decided to share first place – something that is allowed in the World Athletics rules if tied athletes are happy not to have a jump-off.

“The judge said: ‘Do you know the rules for the jump-off?’” said Tamberi. “And then we just hugged each other.”

Barshim explained his close friendship with Tamberi, and how they had helped each other to come back after injuries. “He is one of my best friends, not only on the track, but outside the track. We work together. This is a dream come true. It is the true spirit, the sportsman spirit, and we are here delivering this message.”

The Italian said he relaxed by playing PlayStation with the 100m gold medallist Marcell Jacobs the night before they both won gold. Tamberi was able to join Jacobs to celebrate the sprinter’s gold just minutes after his own

On August 02 2021 17:18 emperorchampion wrote:

Yuck. Twitch chat is great when it’s light hearted spamming and conversations on small streams. However, the shit that gets typed on that platform is often terrible. It must be hard to moderate as a streamer when you’re focused on the game. Plus even deleting and blocking doesn’t make you unsee what just happened. Feels bad

On August 03 2021 21:10 Artisreal wrote:
Olympic climbing started.

Speed is super boring to me but it's immensely impressive what the athletes manage to do. less than 6 seconds to get up that 15 meter wall. Holy moly. Some runs are masterpieces of technique.

Bouldering of course is my favourite discipline here. Never have I seen so many red faces though. Up to 35 °C aren't the best of conditions for a friction based sport but I digress. The routes are set nicely and actually managed to spread out the field of climbers rather nicely. Props to the routesetters! Loved the bathang start with a crack thrown into the mix. Unfortunately that meant lots of skin lost due to the conditions, but as the German commentator said, they give everything they have for the olympics.
Camera direction sucked major ass though. showing athletes chalking up, pondering their nect move on the matress instead of another athlete topping a hard problem is just atrocious work. But I guess that is expected when you're sending out up to 4 athletes at a time. Which is ok, I think, but they should at least know which angle to show...
I hope that these points will improve during the finals.

lead comes up just now.