🥗 "How beautiful it is to get up and go do something."

Hellloooo!

Can you believe it's December already? I truly cannot. Time is so weird. Let's kick off the month with a bang!

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Web links of the week

Measuring Product Impact Without A/B Testing: How Discord Used the Synthetic Control Method for Voice Messages
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Something that interested me this week

This past Thanksgiving week was full of very welcome family time! I had such a packed week of toddler-wrangling, eating with family, watching the new Wicked movie, and just being more offline than usual.

That being said, I did get back into blogging a bit more, this week! I wrote about:

That last post there is my first in my newest Blogvent series, where I'll (try to) write a blog post every day for December!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you organize a family meal! I fully messed up my own examples for the question and I apologize for that. Blame my sleepy brain writing code at that hour. Good catch to the folks who figured it out and worked around it! Good work smarties Ender, Yosola, Austin, Phillip, Amine, Andreas, Ten, and Eric!

This week's question:
Santa is conducting his daily roll call for the reindeer, but the printer has mistakenly printed all their names backwards. To take attendance properly, he urgently needs a tool to reverse the reindeer names and put them in alphabetical order! Can you help Santa?

Example:

rollCall(["yzneT","ydissaC","enimA"])
["Amine","Cassidy","Tenzy"]

rollCall(["rennuD","nexiV","recnarP","temoC","neztilB","recnaD","diduC","rehsaD","hploduR"])
["Blitzen","Comet","Cupid","Dancer","Dasher","Donner","Prancer","Rudolph","Vixen"]

rollCall(["A","B","C"])
["A","B","C"]

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Where do young cows eat lunch?
In the calf-eteria!

Dec. 2, 2024, 1:59 a.m.

🥗 "How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." - Kurt Vonnegut

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Dec. 2, 2024, 1:59 a.m.

🥗 "How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." - Kurt Vonnegut

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