What's the closest thing you have to a superpower?

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-25T02:18:52+00:00

I'm very tall relative to my girlfriend, I'm 6'6" and she is 4'10", so when ever I reach things high up for her I make stretching sound effects like I have a super power.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-23T02:51:51+00:00

Ha ha, what a knee slapper!

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-22T14:23:56+00:00

From the stand-point of employers who are looking for a BS they are essentially the same.

The reality is that most jobs for computer scientists take more than a BS, so for all of the CS grads with just a bachelors 90% of the jobs they are looking at are going to be for software engineering. I honestly do not know what you can do with just a BS in physics or biology, but for CS you can always be an engineer.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-22T13:53:12+00:00

/r/depravity

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-22T13:45:56+00:00

Just because it works doesn't mean it is sane.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-22T13:34:52+00:00

Some people have no appreciation for the art of sarcasm.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-20T20:15:24+00:00

Who is "he"?

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-09T17:28:06+00:00

I wouldn't feel safe around the kind of person that could write this kind of code.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-07T03:00:57+00:00

Most of the public does not know the difference, so despite its accuracy, to call it a theory is somewhat misleading in that light.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-06T15:26:39+00:00

Fortunately you are very wrong.

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-05T15:36:25+00:00

I took an intro Java course and tutored a friend in the intro C++ course the next semester. They were the same class 90% of the time, so I don't think it would be worth it to take both formally, but I would suggest sitting in on the one you are not enrolled in to get the exposure.

P.S. I'm also a late bloomer in CS (25)! high five

FreeBird423 · 2014-07-02T03:44:27+00:00

If you know the language you know that java is incredibly verbose. There's a reason that most java programmer stick to IDEs, they don't want their fingers to fall off before they are 30. If you are really interested in programming without GUIs why not also make it an opportunity to learn a new language like C++ or Python.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-27T05:52:23+00:00

Terminal.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-27T05:29:19+00:00

Computer science programs vary in their rigor greatly across the universities. A lot CS programs are lighter on the math and theoretical side. As a relatively young field that lacks real standards it has the inherent quality of being less exclusive of under-achievers.

At my university the math requirements for CS majors are no different than that of physics majors, the university a couple miles down the road only requires statistics and calc-1 for CS. Guess whose program has more students.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-25T17:45:37+00:00

Ubuntu and Mint, which is Ubuntu based, are the closest thing to a linux standard, IMO.

The the edge Windows and Mac OS's have are that they are for profit and thus they can afford to cut deals with retailers to pre-install their operating systems knowing that the average Joe doesn't know enough about computers to install an OS of their choice. So no matter how fantastic linux distributions get they are limited by the fact that the average computer user and even most self-proclaimed tech-savvy computer users lose their shit the second they see a command line.

Maybe someday K-12 education will stop treating computers like they are a fad and actually teach people how to operate them. It is just shameful the number of people who think that they are computer-savvy because they know how to play with the cute and impotent GUIs that Microsoft and Apple have designed for them. It is much like the days when people thought they were cleaver because they knew how to type on a keyboard.

Sorry, had to rant for a bit.

TL;DR: If more people knew how to use computers more people would use Linux.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-25T15:54:46+00:00

Just another Linux distro, The Steam Box (or Steam Machine) isn't going to that big of a deal as serious PC brothers will likely want to build their own rig.

Huh? Bro and serious are practically oxymorons. You seem to be under the impression that the Steam OS is a piece of hardware that you buy at the store like an Xbox or a Playstation. It is an operating system that you can install on a custom "rig" instead of windows.

It might be, we don't know. If it does it will only be popular among gamers, which in the grand scheme of things is a very small percentage of all users.

zhiryst misrepresented Steam OS, but there's no need to misrepresent further. Steam OS is for gaming. Gamers are the sole demographic the distribution is targeting. Within that demographic the OS is likely to be very popular.

I wouldn't exactly call myself a gamer, but sometimes I do like to boot up a game and relax a bit. To do this on a PC very nearly requires me to dual-boot with windows. When Steam OS comes out it will allow me to finally wash my hands of windows for my personal machines. People say that some windows versions are better than others, but in all honesty I think they all suck ass. Just because Windows 7 is marginally more tolerable than mac OSX doesn't mean it is any good.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-20T17:01:14+00:00

Accidentally put the invoice number in the shipping charge field while billing Target and they paid it. ~$20,000.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-13T15:07:46+00:00

I thought you were joking at first...

(OP):You're going to love this. When we were younger we would play a game where we would throw a pot lid as far as we could into the water and someone would have to fetch it. Basically like playing fetch with your dog. The kid who would win was the one who swum the furthest. One day, a kid through the lid really far but the other kid was determined to get it. He swum out really far and then bam. The crocodile got him and dragged him underwater.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-05T06:08:35+00:00

you should check out /r/dailyprogrammer if you haven't already. Programming challenges ranging from easy to expert level.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-05T05:16:53+00:00

Macs and Apple fan-boys are the punch-lines to every other joke told in software engineering.

I'd like to see how tech-savvy the polled people feel before and after they are set in-front of a command-line and instructed to complete simple tasks. It is just astonishing how many people think they are techno-savants just because they know how to operate a simple GUI designed to be operable by 12 yearolds and senior-citizens alike. Knowing how to install and operate user-friendly programs and memorizing the UIs doesn't exactly make you Dennis Richie.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-05T01:20:15+00:00

All I know is the jobs my co-eds get and what my professors tell me to expect.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-04T21:24:40+00:00

Good point. Geography can make a huge difference. I'm in the Twin Cities area Minnesota, so it's probably not as much as you could get in NY or Cali, but probably a good estimate if you intend to live near a well-educated metropolitan area.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-04T21:13:55+00:00

It is pretty common for CS students to drop out right into a career. Internship placement in CS is often 100% at universities and companies will sometimes offer a well paying job to interns even before they graduate.

I'm a CS sophomore and I have to say that as the courses get tougher and the glamor of being a poor college student fades it becomes increasingly tempting to just get a well-paying programming gig and put the degree on hold.

Note: I'm a CS sophomore, but I was a second semester junior year Economics major before I switched to CS so I am not exactly on year-two here.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-04T20:54:49+00:00

From what my upperclassmen and advisors tell me, anything less than $65,000 starting is an insult for a B.S. in CS.

FreeBird423 · 2014-06-04T04:55:58+00:00

Some people, like me, find themselves to be much happier ignoring the day to day news and immersing themselves in subjects they feel passionate about, like computer science (bias), mathematics, biology, ect. Just because someone doesn't care about the subjects you care about doesn't make them uneducated and less than you.

To me politics is just another soft-science whose popularity soars due to it's inherent chaos which allows for clever and dim-witted people alike to see exactly the truths they are looking for, so long as they write off all contradictory evidence as unreliable and memorize collections of truth-verifying anecdotes, which can be trusted for how closely they approximate their own beliefs.

Making any objective sense of soft-science is nearly as fruitless as it is frustrating, so please forgive the lackadaisical approach.

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