jsgoller1

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The Super Heuristic (For Interviews)(gist.github.com)
2 points by jsgoller1 6y ago|0 comments
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
Really dope - excited to see this project come out!
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
Well then, I'm happy with just your love.
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
Both - my interviewing skills got better mostly from doing mock interviews and exposure to the questions that would be asked during an interview, but I'd say my programming skills got better from learning more about algorithm and data
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
C. I read K&R and did every exercise in it this year, and it really changed how I thought about programming, even in higher level languages. Specifically, I feel like it's made me a lot more considerate about algorithm design and d
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
+1 to this. Reading The Bogelheads' Guide to Investing was a game-changer for me.
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
Interviewing. I spent about 3-4 months this year working on my interviewing and competitive programming skills via LeetCode, reading The Algorithm Design Manual, and taking classes at Bradfield School of CS in San Francisco. I feel like it&
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by jsgoller1 8y ago
I watched part of Udacity's "C++ for Programmers" course and was surprisingly unimpressed - their content is typically great (in my experience, like with their 3D graphics course). Udemy looks like they have some good courses
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by jsgoller1 9y ago
There are "bar exams" for medical doctors - they take four rounds of USMLE board exams before getting an MD.
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by jsgoller1 10y ago
> I've been fired from my last two positions without any warning or prior notice This feels more like the exception than the rule - especially if they are willing to spend a whole day denigrating you. Obviously, I don't have th
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by jsgoller1 10y ago
This is definitely true. However, as a sort of tangent, I think there are some types of problems in our industry that are systemic (like sexism) that can perpetually inhibit someone's success. I don't want to derail this conversat
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by jsgoller1 10y ago
My major insight in 2016 was realizing that literally everyone has impostor syndrome. After talking to a few people about it, I've started asking pretty much everyone I meet who works in tech and found this to be universally the case (
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by jsgoller1 10y ago
I've been reading _The Practice of Programming_ (Pike, Kernighan) lately; it's mainly geared towards Java and C/C++ programmers, but even as a DevOps engineer I'm finding a lot of it useful. https://www.amazon
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by jsgoller1 10y ago
This is a great book for introducing infosec!