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Just out of curiosity, are you relatively young? Memorizing the same material for four months every time you switch jobs gets tedious after a 15 year long caree

• caconym_ 10y ago
  I've been in the industry for about 10 years. Like I said, it's more about limbering up my brain. I have a good time with it, and usually learn some new things. Memorization is pointless, so I try to solve new and interesting problems rather than re-implementing the same old data structures and algorithms every time. To be sure, some people take it too far. The "four months" figure does not come from me.
  • dominotw 10y ago
    > so I try to solve new and interesting problems Curious if you have any examples. I have really hard time motivating myself to study same old ds and algorithms too .
    • bquinlan 10y ago
      I wanted to learn Rust but didn't have a good project in mind. So I solved a bunch of interview problems: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust Solving those problems gave me a reason to touch lots of parts of the language and was also intellectually interesting. See, for example: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust/tree/master/i18n https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust/tree/master/i18n
      • dominotw 10y ago
        This is awesome. Learning Rust is also one of my goals. This is pretty great for comparing my solutions.
• collyw 10y ago
  Especially when you have hardly ever had to use it in your 15 years career.