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It shines mainly if you have PDFs of the content you are learning from which to write flashcards. The best part for language learning is that, while doing reviews, you have some options to generate mnemonics and examples, it was super-helpful to me while learning Georgian!
I've used Anki and found it amazing, but it got to the point where making flashcards was too time consuming and couldn't keep up with them.
Mid-last year I found my brother having the same problem and realised after playing with GPT how effective it was at generating flashcards. Not perfect, but good enough to save many hours of writing them.
Now with Flashka we have started re-thinking the medium a bit more and try to make a great study-tool out of it
- location: remote companies with different "original" location (Germany (remote), Barcelona, London)
- role: Software Engineer (full-stack roles, mid-level)
- years: 1.5
- industry: again, all over the place, from Fintech to EdTech
- employer: mostly companies with <200, some startups
Most of the online resources talk about using Leetcode, time and space complexity, etc.,However having to go through now through interviews with multiple European companies (UK, Germany, Spain) they don't seem to work that way: - multiple hours with a team of engineers going through some problems - "chat about your technical knowledge" - "review your background".What is the best way and...
I've had experience fear of judgement throughout my life, but the work setting has been challenging in different ways.Particularly pushing code, speaking up during meetings, and asking questions has showed to be challenging, causing me to delay tasks unnecessary. The fear of making mistakes, asking dumb questions, and not meeting expectations has made working harder that it could otherwise...