ajg360

Yep. I am in this situation too. It's absolutely brutal.

I've been slowly turning on more iCloud services, but am in a weird state where my media and purchases use my "preferred" iCloud account (name@gmail.com), while all of the other native iCloud services use my name@me.com account... which I can't figure out how to change to name@gamil.com.

I'm surprised there aren't more people who are in this situation. I got into this mess because Mobile Me required me to have a different account than my iTunes account (name@me.com), and then that eventually became iCloud, while app purchases and everything else stayed with my iTunes account.

I'd love to merge them, and I have absolutely no idea how to. I don't even think this guide that you linked to helps me much, to be honest. I'd be too afraid to lose something.

He also mentioned in his article:

When studying CLRS or PP, it’s essential to solve the exercises at the end of each chapter. That will help you to solidify what you have learned into your brain.

That's what boggled my mind when I read this. There's no way that he read multiple chapters of CLRS a night and did all of the problems at the end of the chapter. I've done most of those exercises; some of them took a long while to get through.

I guess that's why I take issue with the advice that is given in the article. It is kind of unrealistic for any 30+ professional with a family, children, etc. to study this much for an interview.

I've been programming professionally for 12+ years. I haven't had a need to look at CLRS since I took my graduate (!!!) algorithms course in college.

I don't work in FAANG, but I am a senior developer in another industry. It would take me way more than two and a half weeks to work through all of the problem sets in CLRS; two and a half weeks is more for someone who is a year or two out of college. I don't think being able to work through the problems in that book is indicative of a senior developer either...

Anyway, this is why I'll probably end up never changing industries. The barrier to entry is (too) high; especially for those of us who already make comparable money.

Thank you for providing a summary of this, and suggesting that the whole video should be watched before commenting. I attempted to produce a similar summary when posting the video, but I wasn't able to create one as succinct and eloquent as this one.

Thank you.

Web based?

Apache Wicket (http://wicket.apache.org/).

Java + HTML. Can't get any simpler than that. Java 1.8.0 makes me not miss Groovy at all.

I write between 4-600 lines of code a day where I work... I feel that 120 LOC is a day is on the smaller side (of what I'm used to anyway).

Something similar happened to me last week. I started getting e-mails from eBay to first.last@me.com, an e-mail address that I use for iCloud, but nothing else. I was getting inundated with messages from eBay, so this morning, I did exactly what the guy in the article did; I reset the password, and took control of the account. Hopefully, problem solved (aside from some residual messages I'm still receiving).

Also, it turns out that I get collections calls for a guy with my first and last name, and based on the information in the eBay account, I have reason to believe this is him. Guess where I'm pointing the next debt collectors to call me to?

The other issue is that too many programmers these days don't have a solid computer science background... I'm all for people being self-taught and learning programming on their own... But the downside of that prevents individuals from learning how things work at a lower level.

I've never written a line of Obj-C or Swift in my life, but all you have to tell me is "struct = value based, class = referenced based" and I immediately know how it works...