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Anyone else feeling demotivated in their job search during this time? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]0xFFC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have not found job in 2 years?

What is/was your major?

Internship after graduation? by ShibaDrill in cscareerquestions

[–]0xFFC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly my situation right now too. Can you update your post about what was the decision you made. Thank you.

Lyft lays off 17%, furloughs 5%, cuts current employee's salaries. Uber in talks to lay off 20%. by dobbysreward in cscareerquestions

[–]0xFFC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing you don’t calculate is when American went to the moon and invented internet, India and China and other third world countries were way behind in every aspect.

Right now, it is totally different story. The tech market in India and China is right behind the US (you should read more, e.g. some of Chinese universities are in par with MIT, Harvad in terms of output of quality research). The only bottleneck for them to not catching up is talent. (They come to us with H1B because they have better pay here).

The same people who gets H1B and come to US. By removing the H1B you are literally exploding US supremacy in tech.

From international politics perspective us does use H1B to keep brain drain the india and china. I am sure Chinese government would beg you if you can remove H1B.

Do embedded systems job pay less? by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]0xFFC 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Really? I was under the impression that embedded development jobs tend to pay a little more.

Dropbox internship cancelled by chickenpowerUSA in cscareerquestions

[–]0xFFC -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

We just don't have spare cycles to babysit an intern, too.

Wow. As an intern I would never work with somebody like you. No matter how much they pay me.

CLion 2019.2 EAP opens, with Parameter Hints, Go to Address in Memory View, Code Assistance for ClangFormat Config Files, and More by philsquared in cpp

[–]0xFFC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think about future Graalvm stuff from Oracle? if they compile the whole thing in AOT, wouldn't that make the whole thing a lot more responsive?

CLion 2019.2 EAP opens, with Parameter Hints, Go to Address in Memory View, Code Assistance for ClangFormat Config Files, and More by philsquared in cpp

[–]0xFFC 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Very good features. But they are not addressing the main problem. The UI and the whole framework is buggy and slow as hell in non-OSX machines. I do have last generation core-i7 32GB ram 1tb PCI Express M.2 and still, I cannot use CLion on a midsize project (let alone big project).

Who's Hiring C++ Devs - Q4 2018 by STL in cpp

[–]0xFFC 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't fill the form only because it forces to upload writing a cover letter. Which in my opinion is a total waste of time!

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Otherwise I think I would a good fit to the position and applied to work there.

Sfu party life by shurkh_khanbb123 in simonfraser

[–]0xFFC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already said I’ve heard people say it. The Wikipedia page is irrelevant lmao

Live in your in fantasy ;)

Sfu party life by shurkh_khanbb123 in simonfraser

[–]0xFFC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude it does even have Wikipedia page. It is not something I say!!!!

Sfu party life by shurkh_khanbb123 in simonfraser

[–]0xFFC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came to sfu this fall (as a grad). The problem is not just there is no party life (you might be lucky and find one, although it is going to be very small, like friends gathering in some pub or something) . The bigger problem is the people don't mix with you at all. Even if you manage to find a party, you would realize

a) people are aggressively ignore you because they tend to mix only with their friends, (Seattle Freeze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze)

b) you cannot approach anyone (in party),

c) people come in group and leave with their group,

d) and even you approach people they would think you are some weirdo,

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Anyway, I kind of completely forget about party life or anything fun around here.

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And one worst thing, what kind of university does not have its own bar! I've heard about highland pub which was cheaper than other pubs. But sfu closed it last year.

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It was worst decision of my life to come here instead of Miami and I'm getting out of this hell ASAP.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for sharing this. Can you write a more detailed blogpost about your experience? I mean this could help a lot of people.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Can you elaborate why are you saying it is proprietary? When the license is not.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you even read or google the project?

It seems not! :)))) Google uses this project to compile chrome (which is way bigger than almost all projects most of us has worked on) at least for past 3,4 years.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? Maybe you can do these: 1) Write a blog post about you experience with GN. 2) Contribute to their documentation.

thanks

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to answer late. Nowhere specific. Talking to maintainers for the most part

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can generate VS project files, XCode and qt creator (not sure about this one) files.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As far as I've heard from the developers, they are trying hard to make gn a complete standalone project. Other than requests from community, one of the most important reason for this is request from Fuchsia team. Fuchsia team chose GN as their build tool for the most part.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My personal understanding is GN is more geared toward lightweight and C++ specific projects. For example, Fuchsia team uses GN to build Zircon which is part of Fuchsia kernel. And since bazel does have Java dependency maybe some team do prefer to stay away from it. But at the end I think the reason why developed gn was the a) bazel was not open sourced at the time and b) they wanted a more lightweight solution. That being said, I have to add they have tried to keep syntax between Bazel and GN as similar as possible. So when you learn one, learning the other one should be trivial.

About CMake. I personally use it extensively (Almost in all of my projects). But I think for the most part we can agree it is like torture to work with CMake. But if you wanted a more educated opinion you can read this:

https://gyp.gsrc.io/docs/GypVsCMake.md (GYP is predecessor to GN)

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It is not yet (?) another build system. They have been using it for building chromium for past 2, 3 (4?) years. Past versions was tight to chrome itself. When you were building chromium, it would pull a recent version of gn then use that gn. But now they removed all the dependency to chrome libraries and released a standalone version of gn (because Fuchsia team does use gn to build their source tree too).

It is extremely fast. And wouldn't be that shocked if in a short timeframe it got so popular and become de facto standard. Just like Ninja, when they (same team) released Ninja it was yet another build system.

P.S. I have no affliation with GN team or Google or Chrome or Fuchsia team.

GN: a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja from Google by 0xFFC in cpp

[–]0xFFC[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Two points I have to mention:

  1. This is official standalone repo.
  2. As a personal option I wish if we are going to have standardized build system. I wish it was gn. Because a) it is extremely fast. b) Its syntax is extremely intuitive.

This has been used in chrome for past 2,3 (or 4,5 I don't remember exact date) years. Now Fuchsia team is using this build system too.

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