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7 5 2 years ago

You can use it live during your interview or practice mocks interviews. It can also solve Leetcode and IQ questions on the go. Making online and telephone interviews easy peasy.

yodon• 2 years ago

All for 35$ a month

There is a reason currency symbols like $ and £ exist and are placed at the front of the number, not at the end.

The symbol and its presence at the front of the number is an anti-fraud token.

The anti-fraud token at the front of the number, with no space between the token and the number, prevents black hats from modifying bank wiring instructions, invoices, checks, and the like, through the addition or removal of an extra digit at the front of the number.

Fraud and embezzlement have always been concerns in business, and paper records (or photos of paper records) remain both a common part of business and a common vector for fraud, which is why the placement of the anti-fraud currency token remains relevant after all these centuries.

A period (or comma depending on locale) at the back end of the number followed by the count of cents or similar acts as a second anti-fraud token preventing manipulation of the amount through addition or removal of an additional digit on the back end of the number.

We say "one hundred dollars" because the phrase form requires the token at the end on the printed page, but we write $100 (short for $100.00) because the numeric form requires the token at the front on the printed page.

It was also conventional historically in high stakes contexts like contracts and checks to write out the final or total amount a second time in words, again as an anti-fraud token ("in the amount of one hundred dollars"), this time with the word "dollars" at the end of the phrase to prevent fraud where a transfer of "one hundred" becomes a transfer of "one hundred and ninety nine". The phrase form is commonly more difficult to modify on paper and also serves as a checksum to validate against the numeric form of the amount.

timvdalen• 2 years ago

This certainly doesn't hold for all locales, see de-DE for instance.

123456.789 euros is written as "123.456,79 €"

developer10002• 2 years ago

exactly right. This is certainly not the reason why $ is in front of the figure. The real reason is to make clear that this is priced in Dollars and not in some other 3rd world currency.

PassportGenius• 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment. The payments go through Stripe and one could easily pull their credit card money back if there was any fraud involved. Saying that, I have updated the site.

developer10002• 2 years ago

A great implementation of current technology. i just wonder what is going to happen to the interview process when everybody will become sophisticated by using such tools!?

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