Updates!
August 18, 2005 @ 08:05 AMInterview Interview with Company B this morning. How’d it go you ask? Could have been better, could have been worse.
The “test” I was taking turned out to be a mini programming project, which I personally think is a great idea. You get to actually SEE someone’s code then, instead of just questions to random questions. I don’t do interview questions all that well anyway. I’ve often felt like if I could just show you my work, you’d understand. Anyway, I actually FLEW through a very large section of the project, but I got hung up on ONE stupid little thing for like an hour and a half. I developed three different ways to do what I was trying to accomplish, but each one took a ton of code and I just knew it was “wrong.” I finally figured out the 2-line way of doing what I was trying to do, but by then it had taken me longer than expected. Still, I think I did well otherwise.
I should know shortly if they’ll be giving me an offer!
Million Dollar Idea #67 So, during my lunch with David, Ethan, and Wilson from WhatCounts, I made a comment that I filed away in my head right after saying it to think about later. We were discussing Podcasting, and I mentioned it would be interesting if Podcasts could be searched. As usually happens, this ‘filed-comment’ random popped back into my head the next day, so I sat and thought about it for a while. And I think it’s totally doable. There are Java libraries that do speech recognition, as well as libraries for decoding MP3 streams and such. It would just be a matter of running the stream from an MP3 into a voice-to-text processor and archiving the results for later searching.
If I jump on this, it could be the million-dollar idea that actually works! Unlike CellFlow, which never attracted any users. Or CuteTogether.com (for rating random “couples”) which I stopped working on before it actually worked. Or the collaborative story writing website idea I had that I never started. Or the condo association website stuff that I haven’t started… no, THIS idea… THIS could work! ;)