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At Twitter I often asked a simple question, render a tweet given the text and an unordered list of its entities

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2015-08-24 · latest 2023-10-09

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  1. …language used in substring(). Here is an example correct solution using the Java code point API: https://github.com/spullara/interviewcode/blob/master/src/ma... Really unfortunate that Java/Windows standardized on Unicode-16 a little early.
    comment by spullara · 2023-10-09 · in Use String instead of char or code points in Java
  2. …room for exploration if they sail through it and recovery for someone that goes down a bad path. https://github.com/spullara/interviewcode
    comment by spullara · 2019-02-18 · in Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes
  3. …a whiteboard problem that actually mimiced a real problem. After I left I posted it on GitHub: https://github.com/spullara/interviewcode It is important when doing lots of interviews to have a question that you know well and can be used to…
    comment by spullara · 2017-06-18 · in If companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders
  4. Someone has opened a PR with Rust optimizations: https://github.com/spullara/interviewcode/pull/1
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-08-25 · in An technical interview question I would ask at Twitter