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Really dope - excited to see this project come out!

Well then, I'm happy with just your love.

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 …

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 …

+1 to this. Reading The Bogelheads' Guide to Investing was a game-changer for me.

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…

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).…

There are "bar exams" for medical doctors - they take four rounds of USMLE board exams before getting an MD.

> 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 …

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 someon…

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 wo…

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 …

This is a great book for introducing infosec!