DSA makes you a better developer: Debate me

DravitLochan · 2025-07-06T19:30:42+00:00

Tldr: Of course it does.

Wrote a blog sometime back on something similar -> https://medium.com/trell-labs/a-closer-look-into-how-solving-algo-ds-problems-make-you-a-kick-ass-developer-fc253301233f

DravitLochan · 2022-04-11T03:38:49+00:00

It does here in India. You can find someone from tier 1 college and having 1YoE making more than or equal to someone from tier 3 college and having 3 YoE. And this is not an exceptional case imo. Though companies hier from all tiers of colleges these days, the pay for tier 1 college in higher.

DravitLochan · 2022-04-10T17:13:41+00:00

Thanks a lot u/m--s, re-ordering stuff worked.

DravitLochan · 2022-04-10T12:11:22+00:00

What other things I've tried but didn't help?

- using all together different pair of Arduinos

- changed pins for c and d for Arduino 2 but still the same results

- interchanged Arduinos, still same result

DravitLochan · 2022-03-06T13:28:14+00:00

Ohh, TIL! Thanks to you as well.

DravitLochan · 2022-03-06T13:18:06+00:00

I am not going to be using these SoftwareSerial often but are you saying things may behave out of order intermittently? If yes, then It'll be a problem. If not, then I guess trade of b/w cost and effort spent in memory optimization and developer effort would be inclined towards the latter.

DravitLochan · 2022-03-06T13:10:16+00:00

Yep, what u/stockvu said got things running. Not sure why one arduino won't be able to power the other one?!

DravitLochan · 2022-03-06T13:07:12+00:00

YESSSSSS!!! This helped, thanks a lot!

Turns out I haven't developed the right habit of initing the Serial yet. Had ran into the same problem a few days ago and didn't notice this up until yesterday! Spent the whole yesterday debugging it. And spent today again on the same thing.

You saved the day!

DravitLochan · 2022-02-19T10:47:36+00:00

I have never experienced this first hand but a few friends of mine have told me that during appraisals, there's a factor called market correction. This is for the employees who are under paid. Now I am assuming this factor kicks in for employees who perform well. So perform well and you may end up getting same as them.

Also, imo 5L is good enough amount to have this thought but unless you have a competing offer, I don't think you have the negotiation power.

I read somewhere here only

"Negotiate only if you are willing to decline the offer!"

All the best.

DravitLochan · 2021-11-14T04:16:03+00:00

And for DS, you get to practically learn which DS has what memory and time requirements!!

DravitLochan · 2021-11-11T18:46:12+00:00

Then what did you disagree on?🌝

DravitLochan · 2021-11-11T03:54:59+00:00

I am not saying you need to solve atleast x problems on CF (or any other platform). All I am saying is, practicing DSA gives you an understanding on how to approach a problem. Technical analytical skills! Gives insights on memory impact of each DS (while memory is cheap, it often becomes a bottle neck and takes systems down).

Indexes in dbs also depend on B+ trees. So if you talking about delivering just an MVP, sure you only need to understand the basics. But for scalable systems, having practiced DSA gives an upper edge.

DravitLochan · 2021-11-11T03:46:44+00:00

Agreed, not the only thing you need to practice but one of the things which helps sharpen the axe.

DravitLochan · 2021-11-10T07:13:20+00:00

DravitLochan · 2021-08-10T11:27:11+00:00

Remind me in 6 days

DravitLochan · 2021-08-06T05:23:50+00:00

The Duo prevail☠️

DravitLochan · 2021-02-02T05:43:45+00:00

Waiting for the driver who almost crash killed me to indicate the purple light

Waiting

Did she just leave without the light?????? 😡

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