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The elephant in the room whenever anyone talks about taking a sabbatical is MONEY... What are you guys doing for money? Just burning savings?

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 l…

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 frequentl…

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…

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…

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, …

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.…

> 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 rea…

That's a pipe dream in 2019.

> 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 thi…

Well, I'll be sure to tell that to the next guy who sends me an 'online assessment'.

> 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…

In college I studied ME and graduated with a C average. I struggled. After college, I taught myself programming. I started with web - PHP, JS, etc. Landed a job, and eventually lea…