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What is a binary tree and why would I ever want to reverse it

frederickvanbrabant.com

Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant helps you to answer this horrible interview question.

You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. (if not check this blog post that I profoundly disagree with). Well, a few days ago I was in that exact situation. And I had no idea what the interviewer was talking about. So what are these binary trees and why is it so critical that you know how to inverse them? Let’s find out.

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A thousand best replies on the Laracasts forum

On the Laravel Daily blog Povilas Korop published an interview with Bobby Bouwmann. In the past two years Bobby earned almost a thousand best reply awards, an amazing accomplishment.

In recent years, Laracasts has become a no.1 resource for learning Laravel. Also, there’s a really active discussion forum on the website, so we decided to chat with one of the most active members there. Bobby Bouwmann has almost 1000 “Best Reply” awards on the forum, which is a huge number. So what is it like to be so active on Laracasts? Let’s find out.

http://laraveldaily.com/bobby-bouwmann-lessons-1000-best-replies-laracasts/

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10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds

So I'd like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so, it wasn't like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right. And that I had been mulling over for a while before the whole project started. I'd seen the problems others had. I'd seen what I wanted to avoid doing.
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/821541-10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds

The source code manager to build git was... git.

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