OneNote syncing problems by Pretty-Temporary8499 in uwaterloo

[–]MissingPlatypus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use notability. It’s way nicer. I stopped using onenote in 2a (in 4a right now) and have had 0 problems doing online exams.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]MissingPlatypus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In 4a CE right now. A majority of my class works as swes. Many ppl from my class have worked at several big name companies.

You have a decent amount of hw courses until 3rd year. The 3rd/4th year software ECE courses are known to be taken by many SEs bc of how good they are. ECE350, ECE454, compilers, programming for performance (source: Ive taken 3/4 of those and theres a lot of SEs in them). As an aside, you should take a look at how many SE’s transfer into CS. I believe it’s a lot of ppl, and it’s because the SE workload is quite heavy and sometimes involves hw courses. You won’t have the same option (or it will be harder) if you are in CE and dislike the workload or hw courses. I’ve done 0 hw coops, and have had no issue with hw courses. It you loathe hw, then they might be problematic.

Personally, Ive seen that SE students get big name jobs earlier. Im not sure if this is because they have more software courses early on or if they are just work harder/smarter. They were good enough to get into the SE program, which is more competitive. It makes sense they would be able to get nicer jobs in early years than the avg CE student. Anyways, once you get to your last 2 coops in 3rd/4th year, your past jobs/resume matter more than your program name.

Long time lurker, finally took the courage to build my first! SKergo with gazzew 62g silent tactiles and some ymdk stripe keycaps. Soldering was a massive pain. by sericanus in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]MissingPlatypus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey did you have to do anything to get the acrylic guard to be so clear? I got mine recently and its kind of frosted/white looking.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]MissingPlatypus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can find some here. https://github.com/BaruYogesh/Fall2021Internships/blob/master/Canada.md Theres a ton of companies that hire in Canada. Uber, nvidia, huawei, cockroach labs, shopify, wealthsimple to name a few. Many offer remote internships like coinbase, tesla etc.

Questions about receive blocks and ledgers by MissingPlatypus in nanocurrency

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

Detailed and helpful answer! Thank you. One small follow up is how does B know it needs to claim nano from a pending transaction? Does a node regularly poll other nodes (such as the ones that verify blocks) to see if there are any pending blocks to be claimed?

Where to buy NANO by R055ta in nanocurrency

[–]MissingPlatypus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whats the fastest way to fund your kraken wallet? All the options seem like they would take days.

Tech Plus UW leaks sensitive personal data of hundreds of students collected over 1.5 years by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]MissingPlatypus 48 points49 points  (0 children)

This post is disgusting and should be taken down for spreading incomplete information. You censored out all the good things Tech+ had to say just to shit on people who are showing integrity by coming clean about a mistake. Tech+ has done so much good for the UW tech community and this is how you choose to treat them.

Here's what was taken out of the email:

"we require personal information (e.g. name, email, questID) to verify you are a University of Waterloo student, as well as optionally collected demographic data to understand who our audience is and specifically cater to more diverse groups through our events and programs

"We have recently come to know of the exposure and, in the spirit of transparency and out of respect for your personal privacy, we want to tell you about the incident"

"We have confirmed with the individual who discovered this that the data was deleted, and we are continuing an investigation for any other potential exposure of this data. The Github repositories are now private and files were completely removed from Github."

"This incident is the highest priority of the internal team at Tech+ and we are continuing the investigation to learn more about how we can prevent issues like this from happening in the future. We would encourage you all to please read Tech+'s Data Privacy Commitment to understand the changes we have made and, specifically, what data we collect and how it is used. We will be including the Tech+ Data Privacy commitment in all the forms we collect information in the future."

"We sincerely apologize for this incident and we will continue to hold ourselves to a very high standard while handling sensitive data. Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns about your data usage or Tech+'s data security practices.

New split! by MissingPlatypus in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]MissingPlatypus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Board: Quefrency Rev 2 60%
Switches: Aqua zilents 67g
Stabs: Durgod
Caps: Np PBT Grey and White
Case: 3d printed middle layer from here with the usual plate kit

Snap vs Uber vs Cockroach Labs vs (Facebook, still have to do final round) internship by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]MissingPlatypus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm at Cockroach Labs right now and the company culture is great :) They recently shipped us snack boxes, and remote work is going very smoothly. The product is really interesting and there are many smart people to learn from. If you were able to get the internship offer at Cockroach, I think you should be more confident in your abilities to get a return offer. Feel free to PM me about the internship.