JBerlinsky

Last weekend, my friend and I successfully competed in the NY Times Open Hackday, and were able to emerge with a working prototype that we (and the judges, evidently) were quite pleased with. We were just sent an e-mail…

So, I'm a freshman in college, and I have an interview with Facebook this week. I have been reviewing all kinds of algorithm work, but this will be my first technical interview, and I'm not really sure what…

I will be participating in Yahoo's 24-hour Hack-U competition starting tomorrow night, and can't think of any awesome ideas to build. I'd like to take the opportunity to give a little something back to HN, since I've…

I've got a ~35GB text file full of data, and I want to parse it so I only have unique results in the end file. In the past, I've had no problem with cat FILE | sort | uniq, but I've never worked with anything of this…

I have a job interview with a consulting firm on Wednesday, and they have implied very loosely that I should have some work samples to show them. I've never had an interview in-person before that has asked me for these…

I'm a freelance programmer, and I've got an incredibly cumbersome bookkeeping method: 1) Money comes into my business PayPal account or 2Checkout account 2) I log in at the end of the day and move money from PayPal to…

Recently, one of my clients asked me to program up a way to determine if a user exists on a server (in an e-mail sense) without sending them an e-mail (it's not a spammer, I promise! I get enough Viagra ads, don't…