What’s a good way to pickup CS skills in a well rounded manner outside of a CS degree? Moving from Sysadmin to DevOps rolls and need to learn this stuff.
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Avoiding Leetcode Anxiety
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#12Somewhat related: I have been recently looking for a new part-time project. In the past I have looked on freelancing sites for specifications, built demos, and usually within a certain number of days or weeks had a new client.
But those freelancing sites are horrible. So I decided to create an alternative. Just deployed it today. https://postaspec.com. Submitted as "Show HN", apparently not noticed by anyone in any way. Would be awesome to at least receive one comment about it.
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#13> We don't realize something important - Leetcode is a competitive programming platform at its core, not an interview platform. Yet, we fall into the trap of thinking it's an educational website.
There is a word circling China's Internet call "内卷", which can be translated directly to Involution, but on the ground it actually means "Over competition" or "Doing zero-sum competition". People trying to climb over the others while preventing others from climb over them, so they created many arbitrary obstacles to block others.
Keep in mind that, in Chinese society, 35 years old is equals to 70 years old (In many places, you cannot even get a gov job if you are over 35). Failing a competition can be really, life-changingly costly.
So, it is rather a "standard practice" for Chinese companies to keep throwing LeetCode questions to the interviewee during a job interview (, after all, many of those questions are marked by LeetCode as "Interview Questions"). This method creates a lot of benefits for the interviewer not only for the interview, but also for later negotiations.
Funny thing is, even though the top dogs in China got the best talented engineers in the entire nation, their public-facing products are still nothing but trash (or even fruaddy). And as for those engineers, many of them has their own big dreams, but they cannot realize it because the market is a highly restricted blood sea.
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#14lolz
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#15Somewhat related: I have been recently looking for a new part-time project. In the past I have looked on freelancing sites for specifications, built demos, and usually within a certain number of days or weeks had a new client. But those freelancing sites are horrible. So I decided to create an alternative. Just deployed it today. https://postaspec.com . Submitted as "Show HN", apparently not noticed by anyone in any…
The first time I visited this, the explanation of what it was didn't show up for some reason, but the second time around it worked. This looks interesting.
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#16> Here's all you need - master 100 problems first, then slowly progress to maybe 200 more problems. Do it well, and you can crack several top companies.
Memoizing 300 questions isn’t easy
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#17What’s a good way to pickup CS skills in a well rounded manner outside of a CS degree? Moving from Sysadmin to DevOps rolls and need to learn this stuff.
For a very basic intro, "A common sense guide to data structures and algorithms" and "Grokking algorithms" are a couple of good books.
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#18Somewhat related: I have been recently looking for a new part-time project. In the past I have looked on freelancing sites for specifications, built demos, and usually within a certain number of days or weeks had a new client. But those freelancing sites are horrible. So I decided to create an alternative. Just deployed it today. https://postaspec.com . Submitted as "Show HN", apparently not noticed by anyone in any…
The first time I visited this, the explanation of what it was didn't show up for some reason, but the second time around it worked. This looks interesting.
Thanks! At least someone clicked on the link. I just added an actual landing/home page. Before it went straight to the forum.
Pretty tired but maybe tomorrow a designer can help make a real landing page.
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#19> We don't realize something important - Leetcode is a competitive programming platform at its core, not an interview platform. Yet, we fall into the trap of thinking it's an educational website. There is a word circling China's Internet call "内卷", which can be translated directly to Involution, but on the ground it actually means "Over competition" or "Doing zero-sum competition". People trying to climb over the oth…
Can anyone recommend reading materials on this? Not sure where to start but this sounds really interesting.
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#20> We don't realize something important - Leetcode is a competitive programming platform at its core, not an interview platform. Yet, we fall into the trap of thinking it's an educational website. There is a word circling China's Internet call "内卷", which can be translated directly to Involution, but on the ground it actually means "Over competition" or "Doing zero-sum competition". People trying to climb over the oth…
Can anyone recommend reading materials on this? Not sure where to start but this sounds really interesting.
Seconded, I have always felt icky about zero sum competition and my taking part in it.