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Some people have no choice. In NYC, basement apartments are the only units you can find for under $1000/month. If you're an immigrant new to the US, if you're trying to find your footing after a tragedy, or if you're a new graduate looking for your first job after school-- it works as a (hopefully temporary) solution.

Lived in a basement apartment as a child for a decade. I came out fine. But yes, would certainly not recommend if there are alternatives.

Great idea, heads up that this is a feature in Coinbase already (recurring buys).

Have noticed this as well. It’s important to step back and look at longer term figures (either monthly or quarterly revenue, for instance). If you check your numbers daily, you’ll drive yourself crazy. Similar I imagine, to how newbie day traders feel, obsessing over fluctuating numbers.

When I was first introduced to data structures, I want something that I could briefly go through before interviews. I also wanted a sandbox to play with code, preferably in JS (my preferred language). This achieves both and hopefully serves as a great pre-interview refresher, perhaps on your phone right before you walk in :-)

Very cool! This is a feature I've partially added to AlgoDaily[1], but your implementation is a much more clean and intuitive IMO.

I assume this works the same as pythontutor.com by executing a code snippet through a debugger and playing back the execution trace. Is each code snippet custom created, or do you have a tool that generates these visuals?

[1] https://algodaily.com/challenges/reverse-a-linked-list

What an amazing life he had.

I somewhat agree. I've written about this before, but working on AlgoDaily[1] has helped me develop an amazing amount as a software engineer and entrepreneur. I've gotten to work with tech that I don't get to play with at work, learned what really makes a business tick, and have been able to network with many amazing people.

At the same time, there's been days that I've had to step back and reflect on the time spent in front of a computer, when I could've been traveling or partying like many peers.

It also can be a ton of work on top of your regular job.

[1] https://algodaily.com/lessons/getting-your-first-software-jo...

I love this, though I'd be curious to know how often developers without degrees will actually get hired (versus those with degrees).

Some really quick feedback: I think multi-tag search is a must. As an example, I typed "nyc js" and got nothing, despite there very much being plenty of jobs in NYC with JS requirements.

I've heard the standard leadership and management questions, like:

- How would you describe your style of management?

- Give me an example when you had a problem with an out-performer.

- What would you do to keep an out-performer motivated?

- Describe a time when you took the lead on a project.

- Tell me about a time when you took ownership of a project.

- Why did you do this?

- What was the result of you taking the challenge? What could have happened if you did not take ownership?

You can find all the standard ones and how to pepare at: https://algodaily.com/lessons/beyond-the-whiteboard-the-most...

I like the concept but hate the desktop UI... why is there a fixed subscription box always on the right? Seems like a waste of real estate

LOL wtf wrong thread?

I think this is a super cool initiative, but you'll find a lot of false positives since there's a lot of scrutiny around these guys already.

Not OP but google around for vector-style images. There was even a Show HN project that generated them, I'll look around

The look and feel reminds me a lot of basecamp!

Glad you got it sorted out!

You don't-- rest up and move slower, all good things take years regardless.

Check out https://algodaily.com/lessons/how-to-have-a-slow-and-boring-... for more on this.

I should say, I'm also open to any resources like articles/podcasts/talks on this topic.

I built https://algodaily.com to serve as a gentle intro to CS fundamentals for non-traditional students. Check it out and see if it's what you're looking for.

Go through around 100 exercises on https://freecodecamp.com for the fundamentals, and then maybe 50 or so on https://algodaily.com/challenges for more advanced techniques.

This should take you roughly 100 hours, but afterwards you'll be extremely well suited to start tackling JS libraries and building your own projects.

What it comes down to is being able to highlight the experience you do have while building new experiences.

So it sounds like you've built a small portfolio and have 1+ year of professional experience. At this point, just apply to startups, you will probably hear back!

The general recommendations to get into a specific aspect of software are, as others have mentioned: open source contributions, personal projects that are relevant to the core business, consulting or contracting work that is relative, and meetups/conferences.

I mentioned a lot of these things in this article: https://www.algodaily.com/lessons/getting-your-first-softwar...

https://algodaily.com is profitable :-)

And we're just getting started! Still very much a side project too.

Very exciting project and thrilled to see something of this complexity come out of the JS world! Great work guys

This. Nothing is more motivating than knowing that there are actual users on your site, even if it's unfinished or very raw. You can always iterate, and users will forget what it looked like at the beginning.

Cool premise, but how will the recipient know what they're receiving?

Also, layout is clean, but feels a bit antiquated. Bootstrap perhaps?

Thanks! Yes, the handholding is exactly what this site is built for. The idea being that you don't need any prerequisites to be able to understand what's going on in an algorithm.