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1. Learn discrete math for CS 2. Get good at Algorithms and Data Structures.

I'm a self taught programmer. My theme for this year is to educate myself on CS topics and fundamentals.


I'm in the same boat as you but I work on web development instead of iOS.

I do not have a CS degree but I do have an engineering background. When I started reading SICP a few months ago, it felt refreshing. But I slowly lost interest as I progressed, for two reasons.

1) I had trouble understanding some math concepts mentioned in the book.

2) The exercises were getting difficult and I felt demotivated for not being able to take some extra time to solve them (I already have a regular day job).

I realised I had to get better at math first before learning more CS stuff.

So, now I'm learning discrete math for CS from MIT's 6.042J. I'm enjoying it so far.


Thank you for the valuable insight. I really am in the same boat regarding SICP.

> CS from MIT's 6.042J Thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out. I think that having a better understanding of math would surely help me out in the process of going through SICP.


Wasn't it owned by Internet Computer Bureau (ICB)?

Regardless, the British government profited off of the .io domain while it rightfully belonged to the Chagossians of British Indian Ocean Territory.

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...


As far as I can tell, the British government has officially claimed not to have been paid anything from the .io registrar.

Despite the registrar claiming it deposited some amount into accounts for each territorial party they were ostensibly operating on the behalf of.

So, someone's lying.


Why not use libredd.it? It's a privacy friendly frontend for Reddit without any JS. You can host it yourself or run it off a docker container.


libreddit is only for passive consumption. You cannot login with your account, so there's no possibility to upvote, downvote, comment, save, subscribe, or otherwise interact in any way.


Didn't the OnePlus 3T come out in late 2016?


Indeed. I bought my OnePlus 3T in early 2018 and still using it.

Before that, I've owned jiayu on Android 4.4 from 2014.


Same. Been using Obsidian for a year now and it's been great so far. I use obsidian-git plugin to backup my notes to a private git repository and for syncing notes.

Obsidian's community plugins are awesome!


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