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Deepak Surti

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Deepak Surti writes Making 3D Graphics Fun Again, a personal blog at deepaksurti.com about programming and design. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2009–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

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Why HN links it

Commenters link this blog's write-ups of the author's own attempts at programming puzzles: ITA's old hiring puzzles and a Common Lisp Sudoku solver. The comments cite the posts and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Hello! My name is Deepak Surti. I am a Software Engineer with a focus on 3D Graphics and it’s applications across various domains. I am lucky that I am paid to …

What Hacker News says?

  1. I had put in a few hours of work to solve a few of these problems when ITA was not yet acquired. [0] - It was definitely fun working one's way to solve these - And they are nothing like the LC problems thrown around in interviews nowadays - Neither are these ITA problems a good fit for a 45 min interview from the duration perspective or getting `the right answer` perspective [0] https://www.deepaksurti.com/blog/cate…

    Comment linking /blog/category/ita

    on “ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems”
  2. Submitted A possible approach to learning Common Lisp as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. I implemented a solver in Common Lisp, quite a while back. The repo: https://github.com/dmsurti/sudoku and some details here: http://www.deepaksurti.com/blog/my-attempt-to-solve-sudoku . I was learning algorithms then and a sudoku solver was both fun and a good learning exercise.

    Comment linking /blog/my-attempt-to-solve-sudoku

    on “Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)”
  4. Submitted Sudoku Solver in Common Lisp (2009) as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Continuations: A Simple Sketch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Continuations: A Simple Sketch as a story · 1 points

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