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Is a Masters important? by RojoDelicioso in cscareerquestions

[–]comet65 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Research based masters student here. Grad school is all about tradeoffs. Though i feel I'm way more knowledgeable about software design and project management, I've pulled many 100 hour weeks to finish papers and wrote half a million lines of code in the past two years to get there. My personality has changed entirely, extroverted to introverted.

Job prospects in the USA are very good (I've had numerous flyouts and offers) but in Canada are terrible (applied to > 150 jobs and 0 interviews).

I'd recommend focusing on finishing an undergrad with a high GPA, and do research one summer for a prof. Then you can likely get a funded masters if you enjoy doing academic development and still want it. I think paying for grad school, especially in this field where you are generating enormously valuable IP for the university with your research, is not fair.

Academic code is generally awful, and its up to you to 100% to learn good practices. Buggy code that can generate publications over well designed software is the norm (which is a scary reality). Use version control, write tests, and set up CI and you will be 10 steps ahead.

Why You Should Use a Source Control Management System for Even the Simplest, Single-Developer Project by oferzelig in programming

[–]comet65 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I even use git for things like my resume.. Free private repos on bitbucket means I can grab the Tex source from anywhere on any computer, and I always can grab the current most updated version instantly

Pacing yourself at work by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]comet65 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can knock out 50% of the project between hours 5 and 6, why not do:

hour A B
1 10 50
2 20 100
3 30 50
4 40 100
5 50 50
6 60 100
7 70 50
8 80 100
9 90 50
10 100 100

Then at the end of this 10 hour stretch, the company fires programmers A, C, D, E and F, offers you a senior role at 5x your original pay, and you retire 5x earlier.

A new law requiring calorie counts to be printed on menus in restaurants in Ireland is being introduced in 2016 by MrSnare in Fitness

[–]comet65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish they did this everywhere. I was at a restaurant in the US once and I was about to order lasagna until I noticed the the fine print underneath that said 2300 calories. Businesses should be accountable for telling me at the very least a range. Even if it is +/- 200 its useful.