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by toop43 7y ago
The elephant in the room whenever anyone talks about taking a sabbatical is MONEY... What are you guys doing for money? Just burning savings?
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by toop43 7y ago
I'm taking the princeton algorithms 1 course now, and it is proving helpful. It has automatic online grading and is free. The only gripe I have is that at the end of the day, the litmus test for whether or not I'll pass an intervi
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by toop43 7y ago
So I recently switched up my approach on leetcode.com to optimize for this naturally. What I was doing initially was: I sorted their entire problems database for the most frequently asked questions. Started at the top, and worked my way do
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by toop43 7y ago
I've thought about consulting before, and my wife actually thinks it's the "right" thing for me (given my recent anger/frustration over the "online assessments" aka algorithm study). The problem is I'
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by toop43 7y ago
Well, I'm currently taking the Algorithms 1 (Princeton) course on Coursera, while tackling as many problems on leetcode.com as I can. I purchased a Premium subscription on leetcode.com. I'm just finding that my progress is SLOW.
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by toop43 7y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful post, with links. Definitely one of the feelings I've had as I've approached these algorithms is that I MUST certainly be lacking in either experience, or a way of thinking, or both. I'm certainly
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by toop43 7y ago
Maybe I am being too critical of myself. It's certainly a trait of myself that I'm familiar with. The problem is often that I don't know what's an acceptable expectation of myself. I've tried to be reasonable when
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by toop43 7y ago
> What do you do after you get bored? Anything else. I'm not sure it matters. The boredom is the problem, not having options. You could lock me in a room with nothing to do but read a book about thermodynamics, or study algorithms
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by toop43 7y ago
That's a pipe dream in 2019.
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by toop43 7y ago
> In retrospect, you should ask yourself what specifically caused you to be a C average student. I appreciate your response. I'm 32 now, and I've had a long time to think about this question. Here's what I think is the a
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by toop43 7y ago
Well, I'll be sure to tell that to the next guy who sends me an 'online assessment'.
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by toop43 7y ago
> Sick of people in this industry making you feel you're not smart enough, that you're not enough no matter how many times you prove yourself in past work. Dealing with this in the heavy right now. I've built a lot in my
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4 points by toop43 7y ago|12 comments