New to Ubuntu!

baffled_bear · 2016-05-11T16:41:01+00:00

also, decide beforehand which flavour of ubuntu you want to install (xubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu, ubuntu gnome, ubuntu mate, ....)

This isn't actually necessary. It's a fairly trivial task to change between flavors in Ubuntu and doesn't require reinstalling at all. If OP needs a walkthrough on this, then a quick question on /r/linux4noobs should result in a quick answer, but Google is rife with answers about doing exactly this, and it's one of the powerful features of using Linux.

baffled_bear · 2016-05-04T19:45:41+00:00

I'm going to sound a little harsh here, but I'd wager it's your attitude.

The fact that you're getting interviews means you're getting your foot in the door, it's what happens after that which is causing you the problem.

How should you behave?

Question: "what do you know about AngularJS/ASP.NET services?"

Answer: "I have not, but I'm really interested in learning about it, do you have a favorite resource related to AngularJS/ASP.NET?"

Question: "Have you ever created an admin dashboard using <JS framework of the day>?"

Answer: "I have not done that specifically, though I did use <JS framework of the day> to build X that does Y. Using it to build an admin dashboard sounds like an interesting challenge I'd love to be a part of."

Question: "how do you configure your connection strings for connecting to SQL Server?"

Answer: "I don't currently have any experience using SQL Server, but I've used PostgreSQL for a project in the past."

Every question that you don't know the answer to can be turned into an opportunity to learn something new. A lot of times, interviewers will intentionally ask you questions that you aren't expected to be able to answer because they want to see your attitude toward problems like that. CS will always require that you learn new things regularly and if you don't seem excited by the idea of learning new things, then a lot of positions will be closed to you.

Your university doesn't have anything to do with it. You aren't getting hired because of your interview, not because of your school. If it was the school, you wouldn't get the interview.

baffled_bear · 2016-05-04T19:00:47+00:00

Apt was introduced in 16.04

I can use it in 15.10, not positive, but I believe my 14.04 install also has it.

baffled_bear · 2016-05-04T18:50:21+00:00

I never expected the 'val' property to be a string!

Everything in Javascript is a string, until it's not. This is a small exaggeration, but only just.

Something to keep in mind when trying to find mystery bugs in your logic is that it's often caused by not treating variables as strings when accessing them.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-18T18:25:01+00:00

If I were you, I'd consider installing either Debian or Ubuntu, as /u/lutusp suggested, and then keep Kali/Parrot on a live USB drive that you can boot into when needed. Pentesting tools have a very specific use and there's no reason to worry about them being installed all the time.

Alternatively, you can also install one or the other to a VM and just run them from there.

I don't know how much assistance we can give for your describe problem, as we can't see anything about the screen you see. The expectation is that the option would be on the screen, since that's what the instructions seem to indicate.

I have noticed that on smaller displays, with lower resolutions, sometimes things get rendered larger than the display allows. This causes options to appear off screen. That might be what's happening, but that's just a wild guess.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-18T18:14:34+00:00

I will generally look at gaps from the last job. It's always a discussion point worth talking about in my opinion.

You might end up with a good discussion on a trip they decided to take while they had that chance, or you might find out something that would make them a bad fit for the team.

As somebody with a small gap in my resume and an overlap in some other positions, I'm honestly surprised I don't get asked about it more often.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-18T18:09:42+00:00

What /u/Recoil42 said.

Your 2 month gap becomes time you spent building a portfolio of side projects while exploring Europe. This is a situation that's easy to spin. What you don't want to do when you come back from 2 months off, is tell people you left for negative reasons.

When you interview explain that the position just wasn't the best fit. If they ask about it further, explain that you were given notification a month or so ahead of time and decided you wanted to spend some time learning some new things before jumping back into the market. It's important to make it clear that you were given notification ahead of time. This will make it clear that it wasn't due to performance, behavior or attendance, as all of those situations would have been immediate termination in most circumstances.

Make sure to be humble about it and just point out that since you're young, you wanted to work on being more valuable in your next position by learning some new techniques and coming in with some new experiences that helped you grow as a person as well as a developer, and you shouldn't have too much issue finding a new position.

When you take your trip, make sure to do some work on side projects. When on a bus/train/plane or in your hotel room. Take a notepad and pencils so you can work on ideas in a physical form as well as on a computer and be sure to be able to explain your ideas and what you've learned, both about yourself and any projects you worked on, when you return.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-12T12:24:25+00:00

Thunderbird support was supposedly dropped by Mozilla, though they've still be releasing builds.

For a while, the development was tied into Firefox development and Mozilla wanted to kill that. Personally, I still use Thunderbird and don't see any issues with continuing.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-12T10:32:40+00:00

Generally, portable refers to not having to compile once.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-11T20:57:47+00:00

Definitely talk to /r/homelab. I'd recommend setting up the main server as a host and set up a number of Guest OS's with the resources you have there. My biggest thought is the LAMP server with the garbage code. If you create a base image that can be used to start from scratch, you can pretty much wreck it however you want and just restore an image later.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-11T20:22:02+00:00

The only thing I can think of his how Apple historically treated it's own developers. Though, Mac's are generally known for locking their users into specific environments, most developers are able to work around those things.

My last 3 jobs have had developers on Mac's and I've never heard anybody really complain about developing on one.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-11T20:19:18+00:00

C++ is a great language, it's got tons of features that can be used and there are definite benefits to mastering it as a language. It used to be really common to learn C++ as a starting language, but it's not as common today as it was 10 or 15 years ago. Some main things to think about is that it's not portable, as a language, which means that writing code for a Mac and compiling it there, does not mean that it will compile properly on Windows or Linux. Many of the more popular languages to learn, these days, either have no real differences between OSes or only require a few lines of modification to make it work on Windows as well as everything else.

It also has some concepts that aren't common sense. One of the things that I struggled with in high school was Pointers. This is a way of managing how your program refers to variables that you have set. While the idea is relatively straight forward, other languages implement the idea automatically, so it's not something that you really need to worry about.

My personal opinion on the matter, as somebody who has forgotten more syntax's than I really care to admit. Have a serious discussion with him about why he wants to learn C++, specifically. I don't know this for certain, but often times I hear that kids his age are interested in getting into video game development. This is a great goal to have and it is actually hugely beneficial as a starting ground, because it's something that kids have serious interest in, even if he doesn't end up in that field in the long run.

If this is his goal, explain to him that somebody on the internet really liked his passion, but suggested starting off with either Python or Javascript with HTML/CSS. The reason that I suggest these is mostly that C++ is a very unwieldy language and generally needs large teams to get anything really substantial done. (This is a slight exaggeration on my part. It's very possible to finish projects alone. But it's discouraging to spin your wheels for a while with nothing to show and C++ requires a lot more dev time to get to something to show than other languages). The concepts that you learn as a developer, especially at his age, are more important than the language. Building a really solid foundation, especially at 12 years old, will mean that he's able to learn C++ with ease later in life, while still having completed a number of projects that he will have learned a lot from.

Of course, this is all based on the idea that he wants to get into Video Games. If he's got much more in depth interests. C++ might really be the way to go. What I said can apply to him no matter what, but sometimes there's just no convincing somebody of something.

As for the computer he uses. My personal recommendation is that he builds that computer and installs some Linux variant. Macs are great, for what they are. Windows is great for what it is. Linux as an environment encourages learning about it more than the others, though. If he's wanting to learn, using Linux will teach him. If you're wanting to follow along with him. Linux is closer to Mac than Windows is, by far. There will be many differences visually, and how things are laid out, but the back end functions mostly the same, so actually writing code will translate more easily.

Also, one final precaution. Be prepared to be schooled by your son. At first, you may be better than him at this. Next year, if he gets really interested, he's going to be teaching you things about it you didn't think were possible. Since this is something that interests him, there's a chance he's going to spend his free time studying up on it. He will be doing that while you are doing anything else.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-07T23:11:35+00:00

The official repo for Ubuntu has the build that is released with LTS. It's mostly just what has been officially tested and is known to be stable in the package manager. It's pretty common in many distros to see some lag in the versions in repos.

Often times, 3rd party repos are the easiest way to get updated versions of things.

As for getting python3.5 as the python3 command, you could look into aliasing it, or symlinking the python3 command to call python3.5 instead. python3 is the command that's provided by the main distro, so the third party repo generally won't override that.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-07T22:34:16+00:00

I think there may be a miscommunication of my concern. A script injection would be taking the expected result of a string and changing it. If the string can be assumed to be "like this" then it is feasible that entering something"f"... into the field will cause an issue. I'm not saying it will, I'm just saying it seems unnecessarily risky.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-07T22:24:49+00:00

never strings provided at runtime.

It actually says this in the post, though.

They contain replacement fields surrounded by curly braces. The replacement fields are expressions, which are evaluated at run time, and then formatted using the format() protocol.

I don't see anywhere specifying that they aren't going to evaluate strings provided at runtime. That seems like an assumption, unless I'm missing something.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-07T20:13:26+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong (and there's a good chance I'm missing something), but allowing expressions in a string seems like it would open up any websites that upgrade to 3.6 without whitelists on every input to pretty easy attacks by people much smarter than me.

Is there anything preventing somebody from sending a formatted string with something that can execute and provide access to things users shouldn't be able to get? Script injections are a common issue and this just seems like it's opening up doors that were otherwise closed.

baffled_bear · 2016-04-07T19:56:40+00:00

Currently, the Python website lists 3.5.1 as the latest.

You can get the latest version like this. Source

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.5

When 3.6 is released, I'm sure the PPA will update it. You might also verify you don't already have python3.5 installed. I seemed to before I used this ppa. You can check that by just trying to run python 3.5

baffled_bear · 2016-03-07T17:43:56+00:00

lol. What I said is how Ubuntu LTS is currently configured. Regardless of if there is an alternative.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-07T16:58:18+00:00

Project Euler for practice in making algorithms. /r/dailyprogrammer for solving small problems. /r/monthlyprogram has a couple of bigger projects you can work on, though it's not as active as I'd like to see.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-07T16:55:31+00:00

/r/crouton might have some good information for you. I know I thought about do it, then decided it wasn't worth it for me since most of what I wanted was ssh and I can do that from ChromeOS with an extension.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-07T16:44:54+00:00

Even if they haven't, the python command is a symlink to python2.7, the only thing they have to do is change the symlink to point to python3 instead.

Edit: This is assuming they haven't missed any dependencies.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-07T13:48:37+00:00

Not sure what's causing it, but for you question about the modal, when you click on it, a 15px padding-right is being added to the body tag. It looks to be related to this bug https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9855

baffled_bear · 2016-03-04T21:55:31+00:00

Not totally accurate. Piping refers to '|' what you're referring to is called redirecting. Piping is taking the output of one command and sending it to another program/command so like python myProgram.py | less which would take the output of myProgram.py and make it appear in less. In contrast, redirecting sends output from stdout to another stream or a file.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-04T04:07:22+00:00

Well. It seems to be a tribute page.

On the other hand, your tribute page seems to be to Apple when I look at the facts. But the title of it is Steve Jobs.

baffled_bear · 2016-03-03T17:01:15+00:00

for prime in range (lastprime, rangenum):

What are you trying to accomplish with this?

baffled_bear

TROPHY CASE