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Learning and science
interview practice
SHOW HN2016
59points
10comments
#645of 2,264 in 2016
Top 29%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Funny and fun to use
From 3 comments
This is really kind of funny. Here's a gist with all the questions I ripped out of the source, in case you'd like to read them all at your own pace (instead of robo-Sam's pace)…
ejcx on HNIt's fun, it's using a French TTS engine on my computer :)
jarnix on HNText-to-speech bot voice aside, this is brilliant!
fatimafouda on HN
Brilliant idea
From 1 comment
Text-to-speech bot voice aside, this is brilliant!
fatimafouda on HN
Objections
Speech is hard to understand
From 1 comment
Comically difficult to understand. Possibly raise the pitch on the voice to increase clarity.
sudosushi on HN
Requests
Add a 15 second timer and speech detection
From 1 comment
Oh wow was not aware of this. I took the questions from a TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/27/be-concise-the-top-questions-asked-at-a-y-combinator-interview/ I…
dheera on HN
Alternatives named
iPG interview questions list by jamescun
From 1 comment
If only we had this tech when we wrote https://jamescun.github.io/iPG/ (of which the questions seem to be based). https://github.com/jamescun/iPG
jamescun on HN