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As someone who is looking for a first development job (graduating in May), this is a great resource.",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"Computer science students and developers preparing for interviews","commenter",[63,64],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"4917508","pfraze","Glad to find this -- not interviewing right now, but always keeping up on my skillset.",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":72,"objections":89,"requests":123,"questions":152,"alternatives":160},[73,82],{"value":74,"source":61,"evidence":75},"Useful resource for interview preparation",[76,77,78],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"4917740","ktran","Ahh, after I signed up for PyCoder (curtailed Python newsletter every Friday), I thought of doing something similar but tailoring to college students. You beat me to it! Awesome…",{"value":83,"source":61,"evidence":84},"Signup flow well done",[85],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"4917270","zackzackzack","The signup flow was really well done. A minor nitpick: put the social buttons at the bottom of the model after the (see sample -> signup -> congrats) process. I'm excited to get…",[90,101,112],{"value":91,"source":61,"evidence":92},"Email-only delivery is inconvenient; RSS suggested",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"4918149","barrkel","You know something that's easy to unsubscribe from? RSS.",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"4919051","plaguuuuuu","So.. you basically created a weekly blog consisting of interviewy programming puzzles and the only way I can read it is via email...",{"value":102,"source":61,"evidence":103},"Privacy concerns: no terms or privacy policy, emails could be sold",[104,108],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"4917807","ppierald","No Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. I can imagine having a list of email addresses with people interested in getting coding interviews could be interesting to the right people…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"4919212","farmdawgnation","There being a TOS or Privacy Policy doesn't actually mean a company won't sell your emails. It just means they're going to say they're not going to sell your emails. Harsh, but…",{"value":113,"source":61,"evidence":114},"Code-writing interview puzzles criticised as poor hiring signals",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"4918671","robomartin","I hate code-writing puzzles during interviews. I don't use them at all. Why? Precisely because of methods such as this one where someone might memorize or learn a bunch of…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"4919978","Androsynth","You are setting yourself up for failure using these methods. - You're being misleading by asking them to write a concat method when you really want unit tests for that method.…",[124,133],{"value":125,"source":61,"evidence":126},"Add RSS or web access to the newsletter",[127,128,129],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"4917986","B-Con","The confirmation e-mail doesn't have any link back to the website. Hopefully your weekly messages do, it's where most of us will look for a link if we want to share it with others.",{"value":134,"source":61,"evidence":135},"Fix email plus-tag handling and UI bugs",[136,140,144,148],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"4917718","piqufoh","Sounds great! Some thoughts: Your email field doesn't support tags http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FEmail_address#Address_tags and When entering an address with tags it fails with no…",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"4917510","Permit","I signed up and this seems pretty cool. FYI: \"Mediocre programmer?\" is too long for its container and defaults to \"Mediocre programm...\". I'm not sure if it's my screen or fonts…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"4918025","josh_blum","seems like a very cool idea! i'm exciting to use it and see where it goes. You do have some bugs to work out though, the UI isn't very consistent throughout the site and somehow…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"4918170","brainstew","Is the closed area already working? I tried resetting my password and logging in, and got \"Invalid email or password.\"..",[153],{"value":154,"source":61,"evidence":155},"Plans to monetize the project",[156],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"4917125","Sean-Der","This is an awesome idea bcjordan! I signed up, I am really excited to get the first email. If this stays CS only, and avoids the pitfalls of 'the industry' this might quickly…",[161,175,182],{"value":162,"source":61,"evidence":163},"CareerCup",[164,168,172],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"4917282","nirvanatikku","Clevverrr..! Having gone through this whole process recently, I can appreciate how this would have come in handy. FYI: I had used http:\u002F\u002Fwww.careercup.com\u002F extensively.",{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"4918296","Jagat","Except for Gayle Laakman's extensive marketing and the heavy user base that followed, I don't see why careercup is popular in the first place. 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