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Addiction. I suffer from caffeine addiction: a cup of coffee in the morning just to make myself feel normal. I got terrible mental melt-down once I stopped coffee for a few days.

A great chance ahead is to solve the "I know it when I see it" kind of problems, with Programming-by-Example practice. Say sorting. You don't need to learn any computer science to …

Same here. Another point is that many things are "anxious" because we are doing it for the first time. Like something you used to fear about few years ago, now turns out easy becau…

Or use calloc. It does the same thing as malloc, but init memory to zero automatically.

Reason: performance. If you just do string manipulation, memncpy is faster. If you need to convert data type, like int to string, then use snprintf.

Yeah a good point. I think the issue here is order: solving which first. Algorithms motivate you, Handling interface demotivates. So start with the motivator.

You have to be really GOOD at your field to have this freedom. Good for you, dude. I also like to abstract away the non-sense part of a problem, so that I can focus on the real int…

As an academia in CS, I use two filters: * top-tier peer-reviewed conference. * paper abstract and introduction. If I am not convinced that the problem is interesting by introducit…

Dude I got you. Two kinds of "work": work that gives you money, and work that gives you value. They are not necessarily the same one. Most people have to work for money. The best w…

This should be on the top! Time savior.

I agree with you on that hybrid would be a more sustainable solution. I want to highlight a technical perspective. That’s the scalability issue of Blockchain. Fully decentralizatio…