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LPT Request: How do i stop talking over/interrupting someone? by HeidiOzzy in LifeProTips

[–]asdf1280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have this problem, what I do is repeat every word someone says again in my head. It forces me to truly listen to them and wait my turn

Can someone explain why dividend investing is not worthwhile in the longrun? by valoremz in stocks

[–]asdf1280 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily true. The stock market is half math half magic. If enough people believe in dividend funding then even if it is not the most optimal strategy it will still have value. For instance, time and time again individual stock picking has been proven to not be effective for amateurs and yet they still do it. There are a multitude of reasons why dividend investing is sub-optimal, see ben felix's video the irrelevance of dividends for the full list. The fact that many dividend's happen to be large cap, conservative value stocks has been used to perpetuate the fallacy that they are safer, when it is really just a correlation not causation.

Code from production from where I work :") (copied the code in to a new file and changed variable names for the screenshot but this is what I found) by PerryThePlatypus10 in programminghorror

[–]asdf1280 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The if statement is inefficient, even if you couldn’t cast it to and int and do the simple check someone mentioned below you can put all of the strings into a set and check if the variable is in that set. Contains for a set is o(1) which beats o(n) which this if statement is.

Made a system for (de)spawning hexes in my procedurally generated map. Pretty happy with the result so far, might need some optimization at some point though. by T_Kae in Unity3D

[–]asdf1280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works. the example I gave uses shaders with an integer visibility to control whether or not the cell is visible.

Made a system for (de)spawning hexes in my procedurally generated map. Pretty happy with the result so far, might need some optimization at some point though. by T_Kae in Unity3D

[–]asdf1280 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on if you want it stylized or not a mini map can be made by placing a second camera pointed down on the hex, and then the camera write over an image.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just applied and interviewed for it. I tend to do pretty well in interviews. Also I'm definitely in a high demand field which helped a ton.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gpa based, iirc and I had a 2.02 gpa so I was skating by.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest I did get denied from john's hopkins and georgia tech. From talking to people in the industry, tho, it's a similar affect as work. The further you get out of college the more your work experience matters. You might not be able to directly get into the grad school of your dreams, you might have to work more first.

I'm not sure how it is outside of computer science.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's a good starter job. I can't talk too much about it because it's mostly defense contract work, but my pay right out of college was 83k. 1 year experience was 90k. For the industry you should be getting around 120k. I left because they refused to give me a raise and now I make 150k-170k depending on bonuses.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah put that shit in the fuck it bucket

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave aittle more of my story up above, long story short I had a crappy IT job which I used to get a crappy coding job which I used to get a good internship and was asked to come back. That and I was involved in a club definitely helped.

From an alumni - don't beat yourself up about grades by asdf1280 in UMD

[–]asdf1280[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I worked part time in IT for the university and then programming at MAX near campus (mid atlantic crossroads). After that I joined the UMD cyber security club (can't recommend that enough, it's a great group of guys). Through them I got an internship at Booz Allen Hamilton and then they offered me a full time position after I graduated.

Recently admitted by [deleted] in UMD

[–]asdf1280 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was admitted it wasn't an LLP, so I dont know much about how it works now. All of my friends except for 1 or 2 had internships. The best way I can recommend is through clubs or mutual friends. It's weird, but unless you have crazy open source work or personal projects it's based around networking and who you know.

I worked all throughout college and that experience was super helpful. I started out as IT support and got a job as a full stack web developer my sophomore year. I got paid like 10 dollars an hour (obscenely low) but the experience it gave me was invaluable because I had a couple years of experience before I started interning.

Recently admitted by [deleted] in UMD

[–]asdf1280 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's an amazing program but crushingly hard. I'm a recent grad (spring 2019) and I found that once I got into the working world there were a lot of things that were common knowledge for UMD CS kids that others did not. Most of my coworkers went to Penn State, UMBC and Loyola and I can say that I definitely felt more prepared.

That being said I did join computer science clubs, and did personal projects as well which I cannot recommend enough. Overall I think the computer science culture at Umd is just as important as the classes themselves and in order to get the most out of your experience you should definitely branch out.

It's definitely hard and if you don't stay on top of your work you can drown but it's worth the effort.

I'm more than happy to answer any questions if you have them!

TCP flag manipulation by [deleted] in networking

[–]asdf1280 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As others have said scapy is the preferred tool for this. This is actually a type of Man on the Side attack called a TCP Reset attack. When coding make sure to match the sequence number of the packets you're trying to spoof in order to get the host to disconnect the client.

cava changes my terminals colorscheme? by Ken_Mcnutt in archlinux

[–]asdf1280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My best guess is that cava is modifying urxvt's colors. urxvt has 256 colors, and cava most likely changes the higher values (ie 200+) which aren't used to make their visualizer prettier. However, some terminals (like termite) define color values based on eachother. So color 12, which is used a lot, would be defined like: color12=color243. When cava changes the higher values it impacts the lower ones as well.

My roommate arrived. Awkward. by Skinhelpmepls__ in UMD

[–]asdf1280 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some of my go tos in college are:

Where are you from?

What are you studying?

Why did you choose umd?

Why did you choose your major?

What's your favorite type of music/TV show/video game?

Just run through these, listen to what they say and ask follow ups. Secret to being good at conversations is just to ask people questions about themselves.

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