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Topcoder screen cast
Ran across the blog of super-topcoder Petr Mitrichev. Especially cool are the screencasts of Petr displaying his mad programming skills in topcoder competitions.
How to answer Behavioral Interview questions
I’m never sure what is the best way to answer behavioral interview questions.
I know, I know, there’s no “right” answer. But, clearly the fact that they get asked at all indicates that there are favorable and unfavorable answers.
Recently I read that in politics, politicians are taught that if you get asked a question that [...]
Where are the new jobs?
Interesting blog post by the new york times.
It suggests a flaw in the common wisdom that the only sectors where there are jobs is in education and health-care. While it is true that that’s where the most job openings are, the fields where the most actual hires are is in business and professional services, which [...]
ASIC digital design blog
Ran into this awesome blog on chip design. Best part is the puzzles and challenges which are very fun and educational.
Serial entrepreneurs 50% more likely to succeed.
Great study from HBS which finds that:
34% of successful entrepreneurs are going to be successful in their next startup
23 % of repeat entrepreneurs who failed in their past startup will be successful in their next one
22 % of first time entrepreneurs will be successful.
There’s no teacher like experience.
And also, this is pretty encouraging, much better [...]
Using Technology To Get Out Youth Vote
There’s an interesting article from Bloomberg about how Barack Obama’s campaign is using text messages to get out the vote, especially among the young and African Americans.
The young are notorious for not voting. The last presidential election only 45% of eligible voters below the age of 30 voted. Even though they make up 25% of [...]
Vote: Presidential Election
Below is a gadget that will help you find your local polling station (N.B. you must be registered to vote before already before going to the polling station).
Also check out Google’s voter info site for more election related information.
Career Planning
I read a interesting couple of blogs by Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame on career planning. I definitely recommend reading Marc’s blog posts in their entirety.
Here are a couple of my takeaways that I found:
Relentlessly expand your skills.
Try to work in growing companies, where you can quickly expand your skills.
Don’t neglect skills that seem orthogonal [...]
World Chess Champoinship 2008
We’re at the half way point of the world chess championship between India’s Vishwanathan Anand and Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik. After 6 games the score now is 4 1/2 to 1 1/2 in favor of Anand.
Here are some useful links.
Video highlights and post match press conference of the last game.
Official website. From the sponsors of the [...]
First post
First post from iPhone.
