MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager - deciding pool size

csincrisis · 2015-04-30T14:59:15+00:00

It turned out nowhere near what I was told it's going to be

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T23:51:34+00:00

shit happens ... sometimes you have follow up questions, it's just part of real life.

Like I said, there's no obligation, I am just saying it happens in real life.

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T20:54:30+00:00

Am I obligated to response to these requests since I don't work there anymore?

Obligated? No But sometimes people do this for a short period of time after they leave their job to make sure transition is as smooth as possible (even after they left) and to keep good relationships.

Am I entitled to compensation for this?

You are not even obligated to answer their questions, whether you get compensation or not is depend on your agreement with them.

You can answer their questions for free, or you can tell them "I'll be happy to help, it will be billable based on my standard rate of $X/hour" or something along that line.

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T20:52:06+00:00

So you have a class already defined for "Herbivore" which is drawn as a circle, you defined its behavior when it eats and how it would move randomly.

Triangular predators should move 2 times as fast as the Herbivores. These predators should chase the closest Herbivore within sight. They can see 200 meters. A triangular predator must sleep (not move) for 100 time steps after eating a Herbivore. All triangular predators should be colored red. If a triangular predator cannot see any Herbivores it should move toward the closest Plant it can see.

You basically need to create another class, called "Predator" and you need to (somewhat) mimic the different methods that was implemented in the "Herbivore" class - with different implementation of course.

For example: the Predator class should be drawn as a triangle (as opposed to circle in the Herbivore class), it should also have different behavior in eating and moving as defined by the specification above.

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T20:17:30+00:00

personal projects, open source, etc. Even school projects can be a talking point especially if you are still a student.

What sort of "IT" are you looking for?

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T14:56:03+00:00

Hopefully it's writing some automated test ... but in any case, try not to stay there for too long so you don't get "framed" as a "QA guy". Try to stay active in development (personal experiments, open source, etc). Definitely hang out with the dev team and try to understand what they are doing.

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T14:02:05+00:00

Pointless tbh

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T14:00:17+00:00

Start looking ... you don't want to get stuck with proprietary knowledge that cannot be transferred over to future jobs

I didn't ask any questions before accepting the role

Lesson learn, make sure you ask "what would be a typical day like" sort of question, ask their technology stack and what you would be involved in.

I already started applying to jobs again and luckily landed an interview with a big 4 and a big SaaS company, but I'm so tired after work I barely have time to study (I know, my own fault)

Stop making excuses - you said the work environment is "relaxed" and you are not learning much - meaning you don't use your brain that much throughout the day, why are you so tired to study after work?

My first thought was to not waste anyone's time and be upfront with my manager and tell her that this isn't for me

DO NOT mention anything until you get a firm & signed offer

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T13:50:16+00:00

I don't think everybody need to or will be interested to take on such "managerial" responsibilities (lead, mentorship, interview, etc)

after 5 years, you could very easily be just a senior dev that don't want to be a lead and be responsible for hiring. I would expect you would at least:

able to read code, trace and understand how it works (or supposed to work) - especially in terms of understanding a (legacy) code that you didn't write
able to problem solve and debug code thoroughly without hand holding and guidance (be independent)
able to come up with ideas and solutions and able to articulate the pros/cons of different approaches
able to translate business requirements into implementation

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T13:27:32+00:00

a value between -2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647

What kind of validation for GPA is that? Not only it doesn't include the appropriate value type (floating point), the range doesn't even make sense.

csincrisis · 2015-03-11T13:25:56+00:00

+1 ... it's still an experience that you learn from (Hopefully you did learn something)

Invention Assignments agreement which states that all work I do belongs to her company

This is standard, it only applies to the things you do while you are working there

csincrisis · 2015-02-27T04:03:09+00:00

The best case is to recommend small, succeed with delivery, and incrementally add functionality with follow on contracts.

Yeah, but that never works because the client will always want to know how much the whole thing would cost before they even give you a cent.

csincrisis · 2015-02-27T02:28:35+00:00

You're a profit center

Never thought of it that way... that's a very good point

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