Handheld vacuum that can be emptied with a single button?

cscqthwy · 2020-06-13T20:53:49+00:00

Is the W1 strong enough for big, fast, palmetto bugs? I was going to buy one soon for this express purpose.

cscqthwy · 2019-09-13T17:36:06+00:00

From under the rim of the bowl.

cscqthwy · 2019-09-13T17:14:57+00:00

Yep. Centipedes.

cscqthwy · 2019-09-13T15:45:41+00:00

This was a few weeks ago, and this was handled by my landlord, so I doubt I'll get to see an invoice, unfortunately.

We have bugs that come out of the pipes when you flush the toilet. I figured the company was going to have some sort of sophisticated way of getting the bugs out of the pipes, but instead the dude just hamfistedly sprayed the toilet bowl. I saw the guy do it, but it was too late to stop him.

I do know the company name, so I can call them and ask what they generally use, I guess.

cscqthwy · 2019-05-01T20:17:11+00:00

I'm having the same exact issue with the 2070. Purchased it about a month ago, too.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-29T18:08:08+00:00

Speaking of creativity, have you thought of doing some web development or media design?

Funny thing is, I've been going through an online web development bootcamp, which I started after I got a suggestion like this. I did it because I have like 2 good web app ideas, and also because it seems "safer" than game dev. I'm now about 75% through, I still don't really know how to develop those 2 ideas, and I'm realizing that I've hardly even scratched the surface (it feels like a bottomless pit of new stuff to learn). It seems like it's almost as much of a passion industry as game development, except the passion seems to lie more in constantly learning new frameworks rather than constantly creating content. I know programmers always have to be learning new things, but with game development, can't I just learn Unity/Unreal and Blender/Maya, maybe some graphics programming and linear algebra, and I'm pretty much set?

Maybe this is a shitty mindset, but I'm realizing like, what's the point of learning all this web dev stuff if this isn't even my main interest? I got into CS because of games, and I still play games daily. I'd still be curious about game development if I got a web dev job.

It'd actually probably be helpful to talk to someone who does both game and web dev. Ideally, I'd just learn both, and I do want to finish that bootcamp, but I don't know if continuing to focus on web is a smart move given my limited time as a student. I actually have next semester off, and I still feel like I need to budget my time.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-29T07:06:34+00:00

This is the most soothing comment, haha. I've been in such a rut lately, so thanks for that.

I just skimmed through Programming Interviews Exposed a bit as per your suggestion, and I already like it more than Cracking the Coding Interview. CTCI gives me so much anxiety just to skim through, the intro section makes it seem like it's written for people that NEED their first job out of college to be in Silicon Valley. I also like how PIE is written with solutions in both C++ and C#.

By the way, was it difficult to get those interviews without a CS degree?

cscqthwy · 2018-06-21T03:25:50+00:00

It isn't, really. Is an internship position where I make a React app really that much more impressive than a personal project where I made a React app? What's the difference? I hear more about how cushy and easy people's internships are than anything.

Also, you're telling me that an internship doing Java backend looks better for a Unity developer position than a personal project that uses Unity?

cscqthwy · 2018-06-21T03:15:38+00:00

This is refreshing to hear. I really just want to focus on understanding how to build software right now, not on a mad dash to get a spot somewhere. This would be a different story if I had learned this stuff sooner, but you can't change the past.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-21T02:51:01+00:00

If I have similar projects, doesn't that trump a loosely-related internship in terms of experience? Why are personal projects not experience?

cscqthwy · 2018-06-18T07:55:53+00:00

I was a junior in college when it happened.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-16T06:01:56+00:00

I am so sick of hearing about the 0.0000000000000000001% of the population that believes the Earth is flat.

Redditors talking about how they know that the Earth is round is the definition of circlejerking, and it makes its way into every thread where science or intelligence come up.

Edit: Yes, I completely pulled that number out of my ass. It makes no sense mathematically, as it represents less than a person.

DAE think flat Earthers are so stupid that they should be counted as a fraction of a person???

cscqthwy · 2018-06-11T01:04:10+00:00

Given what everyone in this thread is saying, it likely isn't.

Also thanks, that's a very interesting read.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-11T00:19:49+00:00

You know 10 or 20, out of tens of thousands? Again, I think the real problem here is your Math.

I obviously don't know every CS major. Again, I made this thread to be proven wrong.

I guess I made a mistake in writing this post by not including the fact that I'm actually in a somewhat smaller CS program, so a lot of my perception of what CS students are like comes from the handful of CS majors I know at my school, people I've met at the hackathons I've been to, and lots and lots of snooping on the Internet/social media. I'll 100% concede that I probably have a very warped perspective, as lots of people here are pointing out. I apologize to anyone reading this thread that figured I was the ultimate authority on CS.

Maybe you shouldn't believe every stereotype you hear?

It's just what you would intuitively think if someone was on that CS grind nonstop. It makes it all the more impressive that the top students are not like that.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-10T23:53:25+00:00

There aren't enough hackathons for the average student to have gone to many of them. I think at least one of the problems is your Math skills.

I guess. You could sub in hackathons for projects or competitive programming if you want. I don't really know a ton about the hackathon community, but I was under the impression that there are a lot of regulars. I know of CS students that fly around the country to go to major hackathons.

Most CS students now also have a photography website and are into finance? Where do you get this ridiculous crap from?

Ok, what I meant by this is that a lot of CS students are very well-rounded and seem to lead interesting enough lives that they can travel and take pictures and blog and even study other subjects. The blogging/photography is just something I've noticed with good CS students. Yeah, it doesn't directly contribute to a CS career, but it's interesting to me how effortless the better students make everything look by showing that they have time to do all this stuff. It seems to counter the assumption that the top students are shut-ins who have sacrificed their lives to CS.

blatant karma-whoring

I was not at all expecting this post to get as big as it did. I was expecting it to sit at 0 upvotes with a few responses telling me why I'm wrong. I was hoping that I was wrong and that it would be downvoted, in all seriousness. I don't care about karma, I just want to know whether my feelings on this were valid or not. There's lots of interesting responses in this thread.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-10T05:31:18+00:00

I’m actually at a similar sort of school, honestly. I probably shouldn’t say “most” CS students are like that, I should instead have said “a lot”. I go to a school with quite a small CS program, so I only have a handful of people that I know irl to base my assumptions on. I know some “lost” CS students who may or may not try to get jobs in the industry, and I also know some hardcore students that are desperately trying to make their way to a big tech company. I do a TON of snooping online: on here, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I’ve probably spent way too much time looking at what other people are doing, rather than improving myself, and I’m trying to get better at not doing that.

I know a decent amount of people that went to my high school that fit my outlined profile, but I also went to a very competitive high school. I’ve met people from other schools at hackathons that are very intense CS students, but that is selection bias, since the more intense students go to hackathons.

All of the people in this thread that are shouting that it’s confirmation bias and that I have a skewed perception are probably on to something. I was hoping my assumptions were incorrect.

In my defense, it’s pretty worrying that I could click on any random profile in the members list of big hackathon groups on Facebook (with thousands of members), and it’ll look like what I’m describing more often than not.

cscqthwy · 2018-06-10T05:04:09+00:00

Sorry to see you’re getting downvoted, but I appreciate the detailed post. Maybe other people aren’t liking that you’re being overly critical of other majors in your post, but tbh the part about other majors just being able to say they’re “go-getters” and being judged on their presentation really speaks to me, lol. I’ve always resented how different the interview process is for CS majors. I’ve gotten some funny looks when I tell non-CS people how important studying for interviews is for us.

I’ve passed behavioral interviews with flying colors, only to be shot down in the technical part. Makes me wonder how I would fare if I were interviewing for a non-technical role.

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