nitesh sharma

Professional Programmer, Introverted traveler, and Admirer of classics.

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Approach.

In past few years I covered a pretty good ground. Yet in a way the focus was exploration. resolving major obstacles, A hope. I ran a pretty strong marathon in each primary area of life. Reset the many habits. Build many skills. A fair deal of visibility is there.

I am getting to the point of the transcendence of the mind. The practice of meditation is firm and there is constant stream of knowledge. Both practices are getting stronger. and there will be an yearly retreat atleast. As the perception is shifting that solves everything. Continue this. This is the most important thing. The only challenge here is that sincerety drops.

Than comes the mind, Now this is the place where I really need to work. The ultimate pursuit is cultivate the mind. Having a healthy, clear, and strong mind. This is where the strong practice is required. constantly practicing the patterns and values which are...

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Day #96.

It was hard to push through binary search and caterpillar theorm. Also in a way it was not clear why exactly I am doing it?

The doctor girl was very happy to see me and gave me a greeting of friend, I talked to that springboard girl and It was hard to communicate with her. She seems someone with very little concern about the real work.

I was talking to akshay and he pushed me to tell what exactly I was learning and I didn’t perticularly wanted to share but I did. and When akhil mentioned do you really want me to write the review I felt doubt in my head.

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Day #94-95.

Yesterday I was angry at doing things out of obligation and maybe I am with lin because I can not say no to the good people. I started getting annoyed and angry, she cooked for me, try to make up and started crying, that made me even more angry and than we blamed each other and slept in our rooms.

Yesterday I spent time in vedic cafe, and order some food because it didn’t feel fair to sit and not order.

I ordered sandwitch with white bread, while I know I can order fruit bowl.

Today in the morning I endup getting up slightly early so Lin didn’t left without talking to me.

Whole afternoon the thought related to fight was revolving. In the home we had make up again.

I talked to arpana today.

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The Social

At this I am fairly competent, I need to practice it but good visibility of the general field.

Communication - This has to be practiced step by step. You need to get clear with the concept, visualise and then practice with some friends. and then practice in day to day life.

Over coming the weakness - Being too nice, feeling obligated, letting people pass by without fight, etc.

Network - This is another key aspect, the network of professional,

Romantic relationship - Building new relationships, knowing what is important. what a relationship is all about.

Family relationship - Managing family relationship.

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Work #Know What Matters. Next Step.

First I want to work with smart and mature people, people who like their jobs and are driven. Then I want to be in the position where I am constantly adding skills in my repitore and has freedom to choose so. I wanna be financially well off and independent. The place should be suitable for the future growth.

The options I have one is toptal. This allows me a freedom of different kind and possibility to work any where In the world while making sure I get paid according to world standard, It also gives me a side confidence of kind of not being trapped in a place and being taken advantage of. This is anyhow is an excellent option, even if I choose to engage in other options.

The second option is work in london, canda, amstradem etc. Here I have the leverage of working in more developed place with more resources and seriousness I assume. I can be more successful more quickly. This is the...

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Day #93.

I talked to Akhil today, He was just hell bent on why I should do this, and than taking substances, and he doesn’t want any solution, and at one point I see the nonsense of wasting time there.

I worked with Lin. And in a way helped her to get to the point of clarity with more patience.

I know eating food for sense is not my thing even then I was having some sweet etc. all the time. So is meditation from adhistan slipping.

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Day #92.

I intentionally didn’t push for the mind and astavakra meditations today and took it easy as I was having that test.

I passed the test and then There was febel attempt for the mind to take pride in it.

I followed the mind a little, listen song, tired out of the shopping and than In meditation it was more or less no meditation.

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Toptal How to solve the Problem.

So your editor is ready with 3 js file with solution function. and you hit the button. The end goal is to cross the 120 points.

If you solve one question properly and other correctly it will bump it up to the 120. Your goal is to get 120+.

First is to spend 5 mins. to take a look at all three question, and see if you already know the solution of any. It can be done in 2-3 mins, just getting the sense of it.

Then hopefully you identify the easy one, It should be the first one, generally speaking.

Step 1 - Get the question clear.
Step 2 - Draw the answer on paper.
Step 3 - Implement. test every step. and make sure it is clean, to avoid waste in debugging.
Step 4 - Test with some more data, especially boundaries.
Step 5 - Submit and move to the next.

Some of things about the codility is that you can quickly solve it for the boundary condition. That way you can atleast get points for...

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Toptal the best attempt.

How can I make sure I performed the best of my capabilities in tomorrow’s attempt for the toptal test.

In a good physical condition. make sure you are in excellent physical condition. well slept, had proper food. Do your regular meditation but don’t over push it. One hour is good.

Generally mind becomes serious in these kind of scenarios.

Book a room tomorrow morning, where you can sit undisturbed for 2 hours. Do a breath awareness meditation for 20 mins. and then start. keep some white papers near you.

How to solve these problems?

There are 3 problems and you need to gain atleast 120marks and there is 90 mins.

Each problem first you need to clearly understand what is being said. than sketch it on paper, solution, implement it with right strategy, and than test it with some data. and repeat for the next question.

If I can solve the first problem in 45 mins. with 80-100marks, I...

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Toptal Why and bigger picture.

It is an amazing opportunity, in terms of it can offer me quality freelance work, and a proof of quality. And further round in a way forces me to become better programmer in general. It will be really good if I cross this round. and I stand a fair chance.

In other way, It has forced me to master algorithm and data structure in great detail and gave me initial starting point to master it. It certainly made me a better programmer. I am beyond beginner in this now, and there are going to be more of these tests maybe in google or others. There are also going to be more places like toptal where I can also try now. So in another way I have gain a lot from this already.

It will be amazing if I cross it, it will be ok If I do not. I can move further. I can say with certainty that I did my best and learnt a lot.

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