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Totally! The large company version is hilarious too.

True that!

"Clever humor, a product of wit, mental sharpness which usually comes with the ability to make correlations quickly and creatively." - That's a good way to put it. Couldn't agree more!

"Getting a joke to work best often requires A/B testing" - So true! We all do that in real life without realizing it.

The same logic can be applied to a variety of other fields as well. Many formulations within mathematics, signal processing, machine learning, AI, etc follow this. Higher level problems in real life usually have to deal with unknown terrains and the techniques need to adapt to that.

Yes, you should definitely change your name. These things always come back and bite you in the future. I just submitted my answer in that form.

Exactly! Writing something that is both meaningful and interesting is like solving a puzzle.

I was about to say the exact same thing before I read your comment. It doesn't matter if you get more money, you will still be a software engineer at Walmart!

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Exactly! Alibaba is killing it and Yahoo! needs cash. This would definitely go a long way in reestablishing Yahoo!, especially with all those recent acquisitions.

Check out http://www.raywenderlich.com/. One of the very best tutorial sites out there for mobile app development! Appcoda is nice too, although it's only for iOS.

Exactly! Big companies can learn a thing or two from this.

One possible interpretation is that they think the idea is great, but the execution is not.

"An artist by heart and hacker by profession" -> You are going to love Bay Area hackathons.

There are hackathons all over Bay Area almost every weekend. So pick the ones that interest you and give it a go. All good things start with people getting together at hackathons.

Startups need people. People need to have a life. SF offers precisely that!

Here are a few (in no particular order):

- Dynamic Programming

- Graph algorithms: Traversal (A*), shortest path (Dijkstra, Bidirectional, Floyd–Warshall), minimum spanning tree

- Recursive Search Techniques

- Search Trees (binary, n-ary, splay, AVL)

- Suffix trees

- Parsing using regex

- Sorting (with all the variations)

- Hashing

- Greedy Algos

- Divide and conquer

- Genetic algorithms

There are a few other algorithms that are must-know too. I guess that would depend on the domain we are in (computer vision, machine learning, NLP, etc).