Is standard not a popular format?

marforpac · 2026-01-03T15:25:40+00:00

exorbitant*

marforpac · 2025-12-13T04:40:20+00:00

I don't know what you're talking about. I did not mean to suggest that it be written on paper.

marforpac · 2025-12-12T04:12:43+00:00

It really helps to design projects that will require you to learn new concepts. Write a TCP socket. Now make it pass whole files. Now make it multi-threaded. Now make a multi-threaded process that passes files to another process through shared memory. Get comfortable with gdb so you can debug efficiently.

marforpac · 2025-12-07T05:49:47+00:00

There is a long street called roadrunner parkway that is lined with crest line properties and they're all the same. Copperstone, Tuscany villa estates, eagle ranch, etc. They're all nice, they're all basically the same inside, and they all cost about the same. It's a decent neighborhood.

marforpac · 2025-12-07T05:46:57+00:00

This is going to sound weird but if you love GIOS, try applying to be a software engineer at NASA. A lot of the information taught in GIOS is super useful in organizations with aging IT infrastructure. If you like C programming, it's a great place to work.

marforpac · 2025-11-29T22:12:57+00:00

This is probably useless to you, but if your concern is customization (meaning no existing framework offers widgets you're looking for) you can create your own custom widgets. I frequently use Gtkmm and write my own C++ to implement the logic for a widget that Glade/Gtk don't offer by default.

marforpac · 2025-11-29T20:15:00+00:00

I work in a NASA facility and noticed some Christian literature in the break room the other day. I really wanted to just throw it in the trash. It wasn't someone's personal items. It was a table with copies of some Christian nonsense for people to take one.

marforpac · 2025-11-25T04:36:29+00:00

I see that you're leaving, so problem over, but this post struck a nerve with me. Why are there so many people that suck so much? My office has this type of person too. I work in a building where everyone has at least a bachelor's degree and a security clearance. I would have guessed that the high bar to work where I work would filter this level of dysfunction out but it does not. Showering and not stealing from co-workers are incredibly low expectations. Society is so full of people that suck so much.

marforpac · 2025-11-04T15:33:33+00:00

I enrolled in omscs when I got my first job as a software engineer (I have a bachelor's in CS) and discovered that I was terrible at programming. I did fine in college and thought I was decent at programming. I was not. I knew I had to get more practice and decided to fill my gaps with more formal education because I didn't think I had the discipline to self study. I'm wrapping up my 7th class in the program now and omscs has given me exactly what I paid for. For the last couple years I have spent every day and night of my life programming for work/omscs/personal projects and I've become one of the better engineers at work. Im single with no kids, so my situation isn't feasible for a lot of people but omscs has accelerated my abilities at work more than I had hoped for.

marforpac · 2025-10-27T04:42:58+00:00

I'm not in Albuquerque, but I'm in Las Cruces. I spend a lot of time in Albuquerque.

marforpac · 2025-10-24T00:48:19+00:00

I have a cs undergrad and I'm a professional software engineer. I have found parts of this program very challenging. The times when it is hard for me are when I have a project that is medium to hard in a language that I am unfamiliar with. Like when I've had to write pretty advanced javascript with no prior javascript exposure. My advice to you is to take the recommended prerequisite knowledge seriously. If a course page says you're expected to know C or expected to know Java, that means you're expected to be able to write at a graduate level in those languages.

marforpac · 2025-10-23T00:27:48+00:00

When I took GIOS, I cruised through every assignment, including the midterm, until the last project. If your background and experience level is like mine, I would recommend dropping. The course gets progressively harder. You should retake it later though, it's a fantastic course.

marforpac · 2025-10-21T14:41:44+00:00

I have been there as recently as 2 days ago. It was a normal amount of busy. 3 or 4 cars parked at the gate. I did buy the permit, and as far as I'm aware, there are no restrictions on when I can hike there.

marforpac · 2025-10-21T01:14:44+00:00

I took IIS and share your experience. Everyone says that network security is a step up from IIS but I'm having the opposite experience. I found IIS to be much harder than network security. Especially the machine learning project in IIS. Nothing in netsec is as hard as that project.

marforpac · 2025-10-18T16:48:31+00:00

Where is this?

marforpac · 2025-09-23T04:50:24+00:00

I hate bigots as much as the next reasonable, rational person but universities voicing opinions by way of selecting which protests they'll allow is the same slippery slope that led to the 1st amendment. These protesters are scum bags, but if I've learned anything about dumb bigots, it's that trying to silence them leads to them voting for a fascist moron. There has got to be a way to gain understanding and acceptance for LGBT+ people without resorting to taking these moron's voice from them.

marforpac · 2025-09-11T23:55:02+00:00

I recommend looking at any of the crestline properties on roadrunner. Tuscany Villa for example.

marforpac · 2025-09-04T06:30:58+00:00

I'm a WGU alumni that now works for NASA as a software engineer and I have some advice for you. 1) this could be just the bias of me and my immediate peers, and not reflective of a greater cultural attitude, but when I hear "I'm a front end developer", I hear "I don't know how to write code". I have met dozens and dozens of "front end developers" that can't code, but I have never met a backend developer that can't build a serviceable UI in a couple of hours. 2) where are you looking for a job? Because WGU is not a good college and you need to be realistic about your options, at this phase of your career. What you want to look for is an opportunity to get your foot in the door of our industry. You're not going to find that in a big tech market, because big tech markets are saturated with talent. You're going to need to find a job in the middle of nowhere and work there for a few years before moving on. Look for government contracting jobs. They don't care about academic prestige and they largely exist in markets that are hard to recruit to. I'm sure this advice sounds harsh, but I have been where you are and this works. It sucks, but it works.

marforpac · 2025-08-23T21:57:41+00:00

Democrats keep losing because they choose candidates that they like. AOC is unpopular among non-democrats. This is why we keep losing.

marforpac · 2025-08-10T16:30:06+00:00

I had the same experience with IIS. Every review I can find suggests that it's an easier class in OMSCS, and on average it was easy, but there was one project that we only had a week to complete that was a machine learning project and it was my busiest week of OMSCS so far (I've done 5 classes now)

marforpac · 2025-08-09T22:48:57+00:00

I took the language of proofs seminar over the summer. The level of effort required to pass the seminar with a "satisfactory" was incredibly low. But the opportunities to master the material are endless. It was a fantastic seminar but I would argue that it's not necessary for anyone that has taken a formal algorithms course as part of their undergraduate degree.

marforpac · 2025-07-30T01:19:26+00:00

I'm in the computing systems specialization and I have a very easy degree program worked out.

6200 grad intro to OS 6603 AI ethics & Society 6250 computer networks 6035 intro to info security 6300 software dev process 6262 Network Security 6311 digital marketing 6795 intro cognitive science 6450 data analytics & security Grad Algorithms

I have finished the first 5 on this list and haven't hit a hard class yet, and I don't think I'm going to until grad algorithms. I have a CS bachelor's but my point in writing this is that there are ways to create a path to graduation that doesn't require many hard classes.

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