Re:Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do
by dang on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:42AM
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> total nonsense
The HN guidelines ask you to edit this sort of thing out of your comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We'd appreciate it if you'd err on the side of civility.
Re:Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do
by throwaway_374 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:52PM
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I've complied and edited it purely out of courtesy even though it is frankly total and utter rubbish, but feel free to knock yourself out with all the rest: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.co...
If you don't know your Floyd Warshall from your Tarjan from your Manacher then you'll just fumble around thinking you got close unless you have the remarkable gift of being able to derive these from scratch in a whiteboard situation. Also I cannot stress enough how difficult - and entirely pointless - a whiteboarding interview is.
edit: I didn't mean this to come across pessimistic and critical. I just think it's important to serve a dose of reality regarding the standard expected (and hopefully some pointers towards the kind of algorithms theory you should be not only comfortable with but also able to reproduce on a whiteboard under pressure).