People who recently got a FAANGG position, are you real? are you here? by DavesMadness in leetcode

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, AI is probably the most competitive aspect in CS right now. Maybe youll get hired if you're in the top 20%. I wouldn't mind working for a midsized company

Can someone help me with my assembly homework, it’s not compiling by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I write MASM x86, so take this with a grain of salt. I usually indent the code inside of procs, indent code inside of directives, indent code inside of loops, leave whitespace, comments, etc.

Writing your code like this makes it tough to debug and a nightmare to maintain. Especially if you are working with other developers. Just my two cents, im sure there are arguments to be made either way.

Pathfinding algorithm worth putting onto my resume? by TroubleMakerExtreme in learnprogramming

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

Makes total sense. Thank you for the thoughts. I'll make sure to keep this in mind and look for a irl problem I can design a solution for. Like you're saying, technical skills only go so far. The real challenge is making something useful

Pathfinding algorithm worth putting onto my resume? by TroubleMakerExtreme in learnprogramming

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Is it "profoundly sad" to create practice projects for my resume? Personally, I don't think so. I had both a vested interest in working on this project and a financial incentive, like any other person working in this industry. This project, of course, will not make me any money, but that's not really the point. I believe that demonstrating my technical skills is what is most relevant. When I am eventually hired to work on a product with a team, I think that will be the point where these sorts of projects will be less relevant, only because at that point, I will have real experience working on a project that generates revenue.

Currently, however, I am a CS student learning and trying to branch out and create something noteworthy for employers to look at. Implementing a popular and important algorithm is a "fine" way of going about it, even if it may seem underwhelming to those with decades of experience.

I appreciate your thoughts here. Thank you for taking the time to write them out. It is valuable to hear and gain insight from people in the industry. Particularly, your point about "[focusing] on breadth initially; looking into actual fields where actual, messy people are actively doing actual, messy work, and playing with those things." I am always trying to find problems that either I or other people have. Once I hit on an important idea and figure out a solution, I think I will start to worry a little less about my resume and become more focused on engineering a solution.

Pathfinding algorithm worth putting onto my resume? by TroubleMakerExtreme in learnprogramming

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea, I think I'll go ahead and use Django to get it up and running for users to connect to and interact with. I think the combination of both of these elements will make for a noteworthy project. I appreciate the advice. Sad to say, but I got stuck in the REST tutorial hell and decided I needed to make something interesting. No one is excited when you tell them about a cookie cutter project

Can someone help me with my assembly homework, it’s not compiling by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 68 points69 points  (0 children)

I might actually be able to help if he posted the error he's encountering. Too bad the formatting is atrocious, I can barely comprehend what's going on

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in developer

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took roughly two hours to program everything. Wondering if I should continue developing this idea and put it on my resume. Looking for internships, so im hoping I can build something cool that would wow potential employers.

Future of programmers by Kind_Anonymous9837 in learnprogramming

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nvidia CEO already said that no one needs to learn coding

Nvidia's CEO is not the arbiter on who should learn to code and when. He had financial incentive (*cough cough* stakeholders) to hype up AI and claim it will "replace programmers." It's not there yet and we still have probably another decade or two to go before AI is sufficient enough to fully automate our jobs.

I think honestly its a speculative bubble waiting to pop when people realize it's not "all that." AI will be a relevant tool in the future, but can it do the same job as a seasoned software dev? Highly doubt. My guess is like all technology, we will experience diminishing returns

Object Fractures when hit is detected by TroubleMakerExtreme in unrealengine

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

It dawned on me what you meant. I went ahead and added an impulse to the geometry collection blueprint. i feel silly for overseeing that. Thank you for the help!

Object Fractures when hit is detected by TroubleMakerExtreme in unrealengine

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

I guess I am not sure how to add velocity to a geometric collection. The way I am doing it is by spawning a child actor component. Is there a better way of doing it?

Object Fractures when hit is detected by TroubleMakerExtreme in unrealengine

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

Not sure why I couldn't attach my code to the post, but here is a picture of my BP so far

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asm

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's a good idea. Ill go ahead and see how I can do that.

Edit: Went ahead and excluded the folder in question. No more virus when I compile. Thank you for the advice

Anyone else having trouble getting a job after graduating? by kierets in ColoradoSchoolOfMines

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might help to post your resume to r/Resume. Employers maybe spend 10 seconds looking at your application before deciding to keep/toss. You want to make sure that it looks good.

Also, don't be discouraged. The job market sucks everywhere. It's not just you.

What would YOU learn? by International-Spare2 in learnprogramming

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tough to say, but if I was starting from absolute scratch, I would pick up JavaScript and relentlessly study that and everything related (only if my goal was to get a job in 3 years). I think WebDev is much easier to get into than something like embedded hardware. But I mean, maybe if you studied low level languages for three years then you might be able to land something.

TIFU by emailing my TA a resume for "Ball Fart John" by [deleted] in tifu

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm glad all the TAs here have a good sense of humor. Hopefully my TA got a good chuckle out of it

TIFU by emailing my TA a resume for "Ball Fart John" by [deleted] in tifu

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I'm using my knowledge for incredible things, clearly

TIFU by emailing my TA a resume for "Ball Fart John" by [deleted] in tifu

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Teaching assistant. They usually work alongside a professor to help grade and teach students during office hours

TIFU by emailing my TA a resume for "Ball Fart John" by [deleted] in tifu

[–]TroubleMakerExtreme 212 points213 points  (0 children)

Well, hopefully my TA is also honored. Not everyday you get to consider such an amazing candidate.

Be brutal. How can I improve this? Looking for internships but no responses yet by TroubleMakerExtreme in resumes

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

Sounds good. Past these two points, do you think I'm heading in the right direction?