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"How Not to Die" by Michael Greger describes how a good plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse various common diseases

That's a great resource for high schoolers who are trying to find a career path. I have also seen something similar to this at Khanacademy - their "meet the professional" series and also some video interviews on different careers [1].

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/career-cont...

Some of the books I plan to read are:

* The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

* Complications by Atul Gawande

* The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel

Have a look at Facebook's Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

For those who want an advanced course on algorithms, here is one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogFv-ieghdoGKGg2Bik... This is an MIT course. It doesn't appear at ocw though.

What tools did the OP use for profiling his C and Haskell code?

I think a candidate needs to have both algorithmic and software design skills. Companies put a lot of emphasis on the former skill, ignoring the latter, which imo should equally be tested.

Check out the book You Don't Know JS (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async...) for more details on Promises and, in general, on asynchronous programming.

This is 500L indeed. Don't know why the cover says POSA.

Here is a link to the pdf: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29696071/500L.pdf

I have always found a lack of books on advanced things that I've encountered in competitive programming like Fenwick trees, link-cut trees, rmq etc. Can anybody recommend book(s) that contain these things?

The course is an introductory course, suitable only for beginners. Do you know any good resource for intermediate-level programmers?

Check out pure.css at purecss.io. It is lightweight(4 kb) and covers a number of common ui components.

Color Scheme - jellybeans; Font - Hack with vim

Check out Project Euler(https://projecteuler.net/) if you want to solve mathematical puzzles.