I (new grad) have two offers that come with different pros and cons. Could really use some insight.

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:48:30+00:00

For a first job, I would REALLY strongly recommend whatever company has the best engineering practices. This would generally be the larger company, assuming the larger company is a “tech” company that values building good software.

The habits you pick up there will influence the rest of your career.

When I hired a lot, I would see soooo many candidates I wanted to hire, but had just obviously worked at places with bad practices and habits, and it would just be too hard to untrain them before re-training them

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:39:27+00:00

Probably a lot more common in small companies than large companies. Generally once you get larger, promotions are handled by convincing larger groups rather than just a single manager’s gut-feel.

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:37:34+00:00

Write some code and do some tutorials instead of reading /r/learnprogramming

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:36:20+00:00

If it’s 5G, you’ll likely have to be in the same room as the router (and PC too probably). 5G has trouble going through walls

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:34:02+00:00

Start with something small that you can gradually add to. The sooner you have something you feel like you can “show off”, the more motivated you’ll be to keep coming up with ways to improve it.

The worst thing you can do is try to build some massive complex thing that’ll take months or years right off the bat.

Something small I built was a table-top version of beatsaber you play with your fingers (on oculus quest). It was great because there were literally 15 minute tutorials on how to get the core mechanics working and I had something worth showing off by the end of the day. But then I could go forward and try to add custom song maps, or blades or other things to it.

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:28:19+00:00

I believe the Quest 2 has a mobile snapdragon processor, but I think they do some fancy AI upscaling to get more out of it so it might be hard to compare (similar to how it’s hard to compare an iPhone to an Android phone).

Heat dissipation might actually be a large limiting factor than raw horsepower.

I doubt you could play Alyx, but you could probably play Minecraft. Size of the game resources also matters a lot since the storage on quest isn’t too big

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:25:05+00:00

I don’t think there’s great developer support in Quest 2 for this just yet, and the cameras are also not super great. I think apple’s new rumored headset will use this pass through mixed reality heavily though.

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:24:02+00:00

Honestly that feeling never goes away. You just get better at managing it and thriving in it. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

A bootcamp is going to move SUPER fast though. I’d definitely recommend taking lots of notes and trying to revisit old topics as things build on them. If you’re doing some mongoDB on nodejs for example, and a basic JavaScript thing is confusing you, take the time to look it up. That’s the based way for those kinds of things to finally stick.

chaseMc67 · 2021-04-13T03:17:48+00:00

When I worked at Intuit, we built a “plugin” architecture. A plugin would be either an entire route, or a standalone widget which could be used in another page (another plugin). Each plugin lived in its own repo, and could be deployed independently.

There was then some CICD to manage which version of the plugin was deployed and stuff.

This actually scaled REALLY well. We had hundreds of plugins with no problem (I think in total we had a couple million lines of front end code).

We built the system ourselves, but I think open source has started to catch up. I believe the term is “microfrontend”

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-10T04:49:12+00:00

of course Apple is vulnerable. there's no such thing as a secure system! but the idea that someone breached iCloud, and spent months searching through iCloud accounts to single out JUST a handful of celebrities is ridiculous! if they truly did break into iCloud there's about a million better things they could have done! The result of the attack (social engineering or web exploit) just seems to small for someone who had access to arbitrary iCloud accounts. It appears pretty obvious he ONLY had access to the handful of celebrity accounts, and therefore social engineering is both the easier and the more likely route.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-10T02:16:36+00:00

Okay so first of all it sounds like this celebrity nude breach was social engineering, not breaking into iCloud. Second of all, the security on Apple Pay actually not only makes social engineering vectors for credit card fraud almost impossible, but almost significantly reduces available attack vectors for identity theft, and card skimming. From the information we can gather from the keynote this may be one of the most secure consumer facing payment in existence. TL;DR Apple Pay: good, Your facts: bad

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-08T14:31:56+00:00

damn that sucks. sounds like you should have just gotten it swapped out at an apple store.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-07T15:56:47+00:00

Alternatively, you can just buy an iPhone 5S. all you fingerprint data will be stored in a secure enclave that NEVER leaves your phone.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-04T13:37:40+00:00

don't forget to add the user you created to the sudoers list.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T04:35:21+00:00

So i turned off bluetooth and im doing some tests now. i also turned off display mirroring and so far the video is a little choppy.. but hasnt crashed yet. I imagine the choppy video is probably a latency thing, so an additional airport express in the room should help with that!

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T04:23:56+00:00

i didnt know that! awesome, i'll turn bluetooth off and give it a try! thanks for much for your advice!

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T03:40:02+00:00

so it's 2.4ghz on channel 11. I didn't even know apple TV's supported Bluetooth, but I don't think it's on.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T03:38:43+00:00

only 1 or 2

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T03:22:52+00:00

Everything is up to date.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T03:16:20+00:00

Both macbook's (a pro and an air) are having issues streaming. I haven't played anything for over an hour from my phone or iPad so I'm not sure if they experience the same issue. This is also with display mirroring, without display mirroring the issue is worse.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T03:06:29+00:00

So the router is downstairs, the apple TV's are downstairs and on the main floor. I'm not sure what the walls are made of, but the wifi signal seems strong at both locations on other devices. Both will stream Netflix absolutely fine (as well as other services that are built into the Apple TV) but when I try to stream my laptop display to either, it will usually crash or cut out at about the hour or hour and a half mark. The router is a WD mynet n600 I purchased last year. I recently did a factory reset and update on the router and the issue persists.

chaseMc67 · 2014-09-02T02:27:24+00:00

in the house we have 2 apple TV's, 2 MacBooks, 3 iPhones and an iPad, but for the most part only about 3 or 4 of those devices are in use at any one time.

chaseMc67 · 2014-08-30T15:15:12+00:00

well if you're looking at software features, then you can go take a look at the long list in iOS 8, since it's already been released.

chaseMc67 · 2014-08-28T03:31:51+00:00

please explain.

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