Looking to flip my sessions around. Help needed

teddy-roosevelt · 3 days

If you're strapped for cash this is definitely the way to go. The hookah flip will run you ~40 bucks where has this solution will be a lot cheaper. I just wrote a review here on the flip and I bought it for this exact reason, It's worth the money if you have it but if not a rug sounds good.

Also one thing I used to do was put my hookah inside of a larger pot. Or potentially get a shorter but larger in surface area pan of some sort so if a coal drops you're still good.

DijkstraGotSkills · 3 days

I'm familiar with both the Dragon and normal one. The dragon one is a bit heavier but both seem pretty sturdy to me. The only time I've head dripping occur is when putting the coals really close to the bowl initially for too long of a time...other than that I haven't hard much dripping occur, but I can see it happening.

Overall I see it as a well made product.

DijkstraGotSkills · 3 days

I'm a polyglot for the most part, in general I develop in C, C++, Java, PHP, Python and Javascript... I guess thats a lot to say for "in general" but we use many technologies at work, and on the side mostly the C++/Java/PHP space but I work on everything from Game/App development to serverside backends etc.... it's good to be diverse lol

jherod · 14 days

Several people here seem to have been critical because the styles shown didn't meet their personal likings of how code should be structured which I think is the wrong way to approach this

Everyone will have their own preferred way to write code, and many of them will be considered unreadable by others. More of the point of this was...at least my opinion, to look at each block of code and objectively say," can i read this and would i know what is going on pretty quickly...yes or no", and not to get all pissy about it not being how I would write code.

Seriously, when you guys look at open source projects and the like do you really just get that annoyed at someone not writing code like you do? What's most important is if you can easily read it or not, regardless of what your "personal preference" is. If everyone just wrote their personal preference i'm sure this would get no where.

swizec · 15 days

Maybe London's HQ is just a whole lot more nice, but the treatment of questions was definitely not the same here in Mountain View's HQ. As far as my interview there went (and others I"ve heard) they are pretty critical about everything. Not understanding a concept didn't simply end in a "oh don't worry about it"...more like the opposite, aside from one of the four interviewers which was a bit nicer than the rest. The one takeaway from the whole experience was how critical every interviewer was on every little thing...

theinternetisaweird · 5 months

Is that at UC Merced? That looks an awful lot like part of the library at the university.

facebook_for_android · 5 months

As a dev I don't understand how this can just be some bug that is not findable. I mean if the facebook app is running services in the background that are doing crazy intensive work, gps polling etc, then this isn't a bug, it's stupidity on the part of facebook for doing hard calculations and polling in the background...

It sounds like this is something purposefully put into the app for doing background processing when the app is not in use, I'm not sure you guys mean "we'll look into the bug" so much as it means "how to we make this stupid ass processes that shouldn't be running in the first place seemingly invisible to the user so we can steal as much info as we can from them"

Really stupid problem from a dev's perspective.

meinhyperspeed · 5 months

Now hopefully when people see 1 star reviews with "Game blows" and notice the person is on a Pantech or equally shitty type of phone will realize that person is a dumbass...

DijkstraGotSkills · 6 months

For sure, firday looks like when it'll be, they can get busy around 10-11 ish, so i was thinking of showing up around 9:30ish and people can come when they are able.

DijkstraGotSkills · 6 months

Yea, I was thinking thursday or friday night would work best, the places in downtown SJ are open later on fridays so it would be the best choice.

alecbenzer · 6 months

Only problem I see with monte carlo approach is that for a low n you could potentially only be exploring a small portion of the entire grid.

pakoito · 7 months

Guessing having to do with knowing popular "attack" tactics and how to try to prevent these from occurring in what you write.

pakoito · 7 months

Not sure what type of security you mean....network security? handshake algorithm stuff? not sure what security entails here exactly

ifjake · 7 months

Yeaaa, if you want to go in, IT or certs aren't where you want to be...It is an option, I was just trying to stress that if you don't have a math background at all you'll want to brush up quite a bit. GL with whatever you choose!

pakoito · 7 months

Ok yea i see what you mean....then yea, google may be your best friend here then...maybe try and do a mini project before the interview if you have the time.

khcavalheiro · 7 months

C/C++, Java, Python...If you're interested in windows, C#. If you like web dev, php/javascript too.

ifjake · 7 months

Without a solid background in math any decent master CS program will be damn painful to get through. Masters for CS in general tend to be more math oriented, not programming oriented...the programming which is done will be done as support for the class, not a main focus.

Basically...it will be expected you can already code going into a masters, None will be taught. Also there are different "cs" majors which don't all necassarily even involve true computer science...

pakoito · 7 months

I'd say there's not much you can pack in in a week you haven't already picked up from your degree...I do interviews now and then even though I currently am employed and never review anything for any of them regardless of the topics and I've always been called back to do more interviews...though I really only believe in going for positions your comfortable with.

OskarKokashka · 7 months

It takes quite a bit of dedication and want to pick it up without any formal training at all, but yea it can be done. Your issue is having all the fundamentals that would be expected of a cs graduate...Picking up algorithms/data structures and such on the side will take quite a bit of discipline. Also for game development, being exceptional at math will be greatly looked at (at least at any decent game development studio that cares what kinds of developers they get...there are places that will just hire drones of developers of course).

OskarKokashka · 7 months

I'm not sure what economics major involves...depending on how great you are at statistics, getting into cs/software from that angle could be useful. You may be interested in different kinds of statistical analysis...

Though if your stats/math isn't that awesome well...either you'll have to become an awesome developer on the side (Which can be done) or pick up a few classes and try to focus on programming related to stuff you already know (economics) or what not.

LtArson · 7 months

Totally agree here as I was saying in my post above too. It will actually be easier to bargain for some up front vacation time or non - monetary things, as they really don't matter much in the grand scheme of things.

And just like elus said, unless you have skills which are inherently hard to find, then there's not much you can do. Being a recent grad not starting for over 6 months from now...I'd say it'd be pretty easy to find someone with your skill set and potentially substantially better in that amount of time...it's just fact.

LtArson · 7 months

What did you just say? You could apply to company X who may have interviews with you, after said interviews they might hire you and may pay more with more options etc...I mean...not to be rude but read that back again, it's absurd.

Come on man, that's a shit ton of what if's, maybe's and who knows...honestly. For a CS grad coming out of college in the state of the world right now, complaining about being paid something reasonable is just beyond me.

Unless you have offers from somewhere else, or some very valuable obscure skill they need from you, you're just another body that happened to pass their tests...and if you think they can't find some other college grad to fill your shoes in the next 8 months then you're just really nuts. Saying you could get more somewhere else is fucking absurd when you don't even have an offer from said place... like seriously...

If the offer is reasonable, you take it, end of story. Entry level position, take what you get, you can always apply to other places...and then WHEN somewhere else gives you a better offer, you can use that to bargain your current salary, until then, You'll just have to deal with getting paid more than any of your peers seeing as engineers are the highest paid jobs for new grads....wah wah wah

I work in the software field, sorry if I sound like a dick here but it really does sound absurd for you to be asking this question. If you came up to me giving me "stats" for other companies as a new grad with no industry experience, I'd show you the door....it shows you care more about the money than the job. (Now this isn't the case when you are already working somewhere or have competing offers...but when you have nothing, trying to bargain will make you look really bad).

DijkstraGotSkills · 7 months

Yea I left out having a repository, such as github to show all your work, will probably add this.

For reviewing...there's a few sites out there which have popular interview questions which will help you get a grasp at what people ask about in general... I'd say there's nothing better than a good algorithms book and simply reading through the important chunks...different sorting/seraching methods, graph methods, greedy/dynamic algorithms, etc. I really actually liked the book I had in college, most people hate alg/data structures but I can link the book if you like.

Oh, also, there's a book called "CODE"...it's simply great, i loved it. It really gives a good background on how we got to where we are today with computers in a more relaxed nonchalant way. There's also another book I have I forget the name of which helps with the hardware/software interface which is much more technical but will get you really thinking about the way you write efficient code. Practice of Programming by Pike and someone else is good too.

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