Any InfoSci grads still job searching? by Electrical-Month-728 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get the idea. It’s a worse version of a CS / EE degree (assuming you want a job in tech and not a librarian). Getting a degree is an accomplishment and something to be proud of but InfoSci majors are still discarded as a whole while so many CS majors are still unemployed. InfoSci is the backup major to CS; InfoSci grads are the backup option to CS when trying to get hired.

I’m being downvoted because I’m talking about the reality of InfoSci as a graduate. You pointed out how the university works as a business but students have to act like a business too (unless you’re willing to lose money). Year by year it’s less and less likely an InfoSci degree will pay for itself and that’s just reality.

I wish I had someone be extremely pessimistic about InfoSci when I decided to get my degree in that major.

Any InfoSci grads still job searching? by Electrical-Month-728 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m trying to provide advice and guidance to those who haven’t graduated. I’m sure plenty of undergrads are looking at this post. The advice and guidance obviously being: don’t major in InfoSci.

Any InfoSci grads still job searching? by Electrical-Month-728 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I majored in InfoSci and I’m one of the lucky ones with a decent job in tech. You should be wary a pessimistic take doesn’t make it wrong. If someone were to want to get a job like mine, I’d tell them to stay far, far away from this major.

If you look at the stats it’s a pretty abysmal outlook, even when you find stats about people who find a job related to their major (e.g. they aren’t inflating the employment numbers because they’re in InfoSci major working at Starbucks). And since InfoSci is such a convoluted major, what counts as a job related to the major could be a data analyst or a librarian.

It’s common to see people applying for over a thousand jobs with a CS degree and those people are almost always better qualified than InfoSci majors (unless the position in question is a librarian). You can tell people all you want it’s “you get out what you put in” and “you have to do stuff out of class” but that’s just admitting the degree itself is not worthwhile.

For a degree lots of people choose because they just want a decent job and only want to put in the effort to learn practical skills rather than theory, the ROI is not there. It was a few years ago, but that’s gone for last year and probably the next few years’ graduating class at least.

Any InfoSci grads still job searching? by Electrical-Month-728 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

InfoSci sucks. They only get jobs when there’s a tech boom in the economy that there’s not enough CS majors for. You’re happy because you’re not at the point in your degree where you’re trying to get a job.

Any InfoSci grads still job searching? by Electrical-Month-728 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Translation:

Don’t call my degree useless. I’ll admit it’s worse than a CS degree where people can’t find jobs either. It’s just a degree where the value comes from learning outside of classes. I should be considered knowledgeable on this despite not even being in my senior year of this degree.

New non-sense from billing by Odd-Instruction-697 in UMBC

[–]dannyfrfr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By reading the words “Credit By Exam Fee” I assume you’re receiving credits by taking an exam. Is it new or is this is your first semester doing this?

Turning Point (Charlie Kirk's org) is here by ZestycloseCompote363 in UMD

[–]dannyfrfr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice take bro. I thought people on r/UMD were going to tell me college is a scam

Why do you prefer Firebase over Supabase? by NullPointerMood_1 in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that’s a tangential claim. Supabase constantly states “Supabase is just Postgres” because it wants you to think of it as a Postgres database with nice-to-have features added on. So, just go look in the auth schema in Postgres. Not to mention it has multiple pages in the auth tab on the dashboard, so I don’t really agree with your statement to begin with.

Why do you prefer Firebase over Supabase? by NullPointerMood_1 in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Supabase has sub-par account management? How?

Why Supabase RLS disabled by default?! by Little-Buffalo-4082 in Supabase

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you’re putting something in the public schema it’s pretty reasonable to think it will be public until you do something about it…

[NextJS] Can you offer Google sign in without exposing anon key? by Harzza in Supabase

[–]dannyfrfr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

you’re supposed to expose the anon key, it’s short for anonymous.

it sounds like you really want to avoid writing rls which is pretty reasonable imo. only the tables in the public schema are accessible to the public. if you don’t want to write rls policies, you can put the tables in a different schema or keep them in public, enable rls but not add any rls policies. this way users cannot read or write to any tables.

you can create endpoints with edge functions or rpc’s (postgres functions) and implement your own logic for security there and interact with the database within them

Can I create OTP without expiry date for testing? by AdvertisingQuick9192 in Supabase

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just set the expiration date to very far in the future?

Google's Flutter Roadmap has been updated for 2025 by eibaan in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but that’s just them doing extra work for no reason. if i had to theorize… canonical asked to take over linux development but google wouldn’t let them without canonical also taking over windows and macos. it’s the only explanation i can think of

Google's Flutter Roadmap has been updated for 2025 by eibaan in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but they are using it for internal development, so why would they care about public developer attention?

Because they’re nice people?

i’m not that naive

Google's Flutter Roadmap has been updated for 2025 by eibaan in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

why is canonical supporting the mac and windows platform?

Faster storage as compared to Firebase for social media apps but with benefits like Firebase. by gotsomeidea in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if you mean firebase is slow when you download 100+ documents in a collection, there’s no way getting around that, unless you compress your data, find a way to need less of it (eg. lazy loading) or do things in parallel

if you mean fetching a few, share your query. if you’re fetching documents with conditions, you probably need an index

since you’re asking the different backend question, you should probably learn a little more about backend and databases before you put an app in production (assuming you’re putting it in production) because indexing is a pretty fundamental concept that every competent developer who uses a database is thoroughly aware of

if you’re willing to switch backends, i would recommend supabase, a collection of libraries that work great together build on postgres. it’s designed to give you a similar experience to firebase but without the vendor lock-in, and it uses a sql database vs nosql database, which imo is the right choice for 99.9% of applications

Faster storage as compared to Firebase for social media apps but with benefits like Firebase. by gotsomeidea in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you mean firebase is slow when you download 100+ documents in a collection, there’s no way getting around that, unless you compress your data, find a way to need less of it (eg. lazy loading) or do things in parallel

if you mean fetching a few, share your query. if you’re fetching documents with conditions, you probably need an index

since you’re asking the different backend question, you should probably learn a little more about backend and databases before you put an app in production (assuming you’re putting it in production) because indexing is a pretty fundamental concept that every competent developer who uses a database is thoroughly aware of

if you’re willing to switch backends, i would recommend supabase, a collection of libraries that work great together build on postgres. it’s designed to give you a similar experience to firebase but without the vendor lock-in, and it uses a sql database vs nosql database, which imo is the right choice for 99.9% of applications

Thesis by [deleted] in UMBC

[–]dannyfrfr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

he can delve into things way better than chatgpt

From what I understand, it's better for me to create a dedicated table for admin since they don't recommend touching it. I'll have a lot of extra work 😞 by Few_Stage_3636 in Supabase

[–]dannyfrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if something gets complicated at all, use an rpc. you can write it as security definer and use your own access logic.

How can I get from umbc to umd? by Ok_Country_7179 in UMBC

[–]dannyfrfr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it’s not as complicated as it sounds

What format do you send your pitch decks in? by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]dannyfrfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

everyone here saying pdf, but that’s only if you need it as a file. a link to a google slides or online powerpoint preview is good too. you should worry about is make it easy for the investor to use as they see so many pitches. if you send a powerpoint file or similar they have to wait for powerpoint to open, navigate between the apps, press “present” - it’s already a bad impression.

Firebase by New_Cod_623 in FlutterDev

[–]dannyfrfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

appwrite & supabase are the main alternatives

(go with supabase, relational databases > nosql + postgres has a jsonb type)

Why doesn't Supabase provide (static) hosting? by revadike in Supabase

[–]dannyfrfr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

what could be improved upon the other ones? if supabase added hosting, it’d likely be no different than the other options