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Hey y'all,

I hope your week was a good one, and you had a somewhat light work week with the U.S. holiday. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

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An unnecessary but satisfying optimization
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Something that interested me this week

Personally speaking, this was a hard week, my friends. I don't want to get into it so I will leave it at: hug your loved ones. If you care about someone, call them and tell them!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the last non-repeating character in a string. Awesomeeee work Usman, Aren, Winnie, Ten, Muhammad, Neefertiti, Paul, David, Amine, Tarang, Sameer, Ross, Ender, Kriszti, Andrew, SidGod, Ollie, Jake, Kwlio, Neha, Elke, and Austin!

This week's question:
Given an array of fireworks representing a series going off, write a function to find the "grand finale" of the show! A grand finale is defined as the longest subarray where the average size is at least 5, the minimum velocity is 3, and the difference between the min and max height is no more than 10. Return the starting index of the grand finale.

Example:

const fireworks = [
  {height: 10, size: 6, velocity: 4},
  {height: 13, size: 3, velocity: 2},
  {height: 17, size: 6, velocity: 3},
  {height: 21, size: 8, velocity: 4},
  {height: 19, size: 5, velocity: 3},
  {height: 18, size: 4, velocity: 4}
];

> grandFinaleStart(fireworks)
> 2

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Joke

What do you call a fly without wings?
A walk!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and donate to causes you care about!

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