Monday, December 23, 2019


  • Received results for the amazon coding test, passed, got invited for a day of onsites.
  • Markets.
    • Boeing fired their CEO.
    • S&P up 3.5% in the past month. Record highs. Such a strange time, with every indicator shouting bear years ago.
    • Pivotal went public last year, 2018-04-20. Earnings tomorrow.
    • TSLA hit $420, and rising. People are so weird.
  • More practice problems. Mostly leetcode.
    • Getting better and faster with every one.
    • Writing out a couple BASIC examples of the iteration/recursion, like the first two loops/stacks, is extremely helpful for developing the algorithm. Makes it much easier to extrapolate if the whole problem is too complex to wrap your head around in code or thought.
    • Reversing an array is obviously O(n). Same for linked list.
    • When you see a problem that expects a logn solution, expect something like a binary search where you're halving the problem space each time.
  • Started looking on redfin. 1-2br, 1bath, garage, $1m. There are some options in places like south city, rwc, epa, santa clara.
  • Marshawn Lynch might play for the seahawks next week against us. So conflicted.
  • Lunch at little lucca's. They were out of dutch crunch.
  • Updated the banner so I wouldn't have to on christmas. Redeployed.
  • German bar with all the kids from the block.