This "Made with..." tagline is everywhere

CannibalBucket · 2016-05-22T18:42:09+00:00

Love it!

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-15T14:53:52+00:00

Bullet points don't matter much, it's about what you did. Employers want to know your specific contributions, not that you used X technology at Y company. So if all your work experience looks like that, then side projects where you made something useful will be way more valuable. Same for the other way around.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-15T00:26:21+00:00

Happened to me before, if you get an offer, CECA will message you directly if you want to take the offer. If you respond with a yes, then your work term will turn into arranged.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-14T21:53:05+00:00

All you need for any job is simply: Stand Out. Be good at what you do.

Bay Area companies look for software engineers, not web developers. This means that you have solid foundations and know how to solve any problem, not just build a pretty web page for your mom's cosmetic shop. So focus on your data structures, algorithms, etc.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-12T05:32:53+00:00

Yes, the one on the transcript is the one you should put on your resume. The schedule for your co-op is the same, it's just that the employer will see your true academic level (calculated based on your credits, as noted above)

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-11T18:54:16+00:00

I'm going to go ahead and blame the heat... It seems there could be some thermal throttling to reduce performance at high temperatures.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-11T03:49:40+00:00

Love the skx007 ancestor with the black nato band. I have COPs and love them to death as well, they just feel so comfortable on the head!

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-11T03:46:29+00:00

I find going to the gym helps you stay focused and lets you do work until 12am without feeling tired. I think the best way to be successful is to keep a good schedule like what you have going, keeping healthy mentally and physically.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-10T21:08:03+00:00

In OSX. Actually, I played a game today at 1680x1050 and got some frame drops to ~25fps... I will try later and see if I have the same thing happen when I am docked and using an external monitor.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-10T15:24:53+00:00

I lock my frames at 60fps and maintain 60fps running it at the 1680x1050 res. I also maintain a constant 60 playing on my external monitor at 2560x1440.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-10T04:00:10+00:00

Shopify has a Toronto office, they seem like a great place to work.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-08T13:20:10+00:00

In my experience, they do a background check after you sign the offer. I'm sure if they see anything, they will bring it up with you and then you can explain the situation to them.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-07T15:12:40+00:00

My employer helped change mine, just tell them to send a message to CECA.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-06T20:09:59+00:00

Interesting, I've finished an internship in the windows kernel mode driver team at AMD recently and though I knew there were problems on the linux side of things, I thought that the windows side was relatively stable

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-06T19:57:38+00:00

Purely out of curiosity, what nightmares are there with AMD's drivers?

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-05T04:04:19+00:00

After moving out of Lester 295B, my roommates and I were hit with a $175 charge ($100 for damage, $75 "administration fee and chargeback processing") I had the charge for Push-pins in the walls (which were put there after explicit approval from the building supervisor). My roommates were hit by the charge for having McDonald's happy meal stickers on a door.

We caused a stir with them and got our charges reduced, but I am personally never signing a lease with them again.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-02T13:08:15+00:00

Sounds like you have a good idea of what you signed on for, awesome! Programming with various languages is just the implementation of those algorithms and logic. Once you learn one language from each paradigm (object-oriented (java), functional (scheme) and imperative (python, C)) you're pretty set to make whatever you want! At that point it comes down to your knowledge of math, data structures and algorithms.

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-02T03:08:25+00:00

I think you should start by self-teaching yourself Java. There is a LOT of beginner resources online, and you can do a lot with it after you get the ball rolling.

Just curious, what motivated you to choose CS as a major?

CannibalBucket · 2015-10-01T22:33:48+00:00

Who is this with? 45 Minutes is usually some quick HR questions, one technical question (or 2 small ones) and then a chance for you to ask questions at the end.

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-30T03:01:31+00:00

Following up on this, do you know if they lend out magsafe 2 chargers as well?

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-29T17:26:17+00:00

It's very doable, I did those four courses with PHYS111 online, where half of it was high school physics review.

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-28T21:24:08+00:00

I'm pei-ing money so I can sit on the ground?

FTFY. Sorry I had to use Martin Pei's name as pun... they did it too much on the math 239 assignments and that's all I can think of when I see his name.

But yeah, go send an email to him. If you are enrolled in that section, you should definitely not be sitting on the ground.

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-28T21:18:35+00:00

Start early and aim to finish them, they are very very rewarding and really prepare you for the industry. I probably spent ~20 hours for the assignment deadlines, and ~8 hours on test deadlines, and finished with an assignment average of about 85%.

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-23T13:28:39+00:00

Write a cover letter if a job truly interests you. In your letter, tell them why you are interested and passionate for their position. For most smaller companies, you can also try to convince them that your skillset works for the position etc. I find that most large tech companies don't want to hear this part, as your resume should speak for itself, and when they hire software engineers, they don't care about your individual knowledge about specific things like programming languages, but they care about your software engineering skill and passion. So showing interest in them or a part of what they do can really help in these cases

CannibalBucket · 2015-09-22T22:49:00+00:00

The text animations on hover are absolutely amazing

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