acbellini

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   by acbellini 11y ago

   Honestly, it never even crossed my mind to lie in a job application. Maybe I'm just not smart enough, or not greedy enough, but it's simply something I wouldn't do. Ever since I started working, even before joining the core t
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   by acbellini 11y ago

   I'll be honest: when I joined Toptal, I saw things just as you do. After very little, like as soon as I got my first gig, I understood it's just fair market rules, it's no discrimination at all. I'll try to explain, usin
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   by acbellini 11y ago

   Toptal does take time and spend money on reviewing candidates: there are no round-manhole-cover questions, there are algorithms for which one can prepare, there is a live coding session and a project that is evaluated by an experienced deve
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   by acbellini 11y ago

   I've been working with Toptal for two years, and it's a fair marketplace. As a developer, you get a completely different service from Toptal than from other freelancing sites: as developers are vetted, so clients are selected to m
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   by acbellini 13y ago

   Yes, I used that. It's what the ceiling() method in the binary tree in the article does, it looks for the prefix. Still, it's slower :-)
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   by acbellini 13y ago

   I have reported the "try" pronunciation because that's the way I have learnt them, and also because that's how Sedgewick's book explicitly uses, but I guess there are alternatives :-) Anyway, you just got right the