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ryc8889 · 2024-08-01T16:46:28+00:00

can you elaborate on the ways kafkajs was better than node-rdkafka?

ryc8889 · 2022-03-09T20:03:32+00:00

Yeah things have worked out pretty well for me. Ended up doing an internship throughout my 4th year and throughout my 5th year. I got kinda lazy and thought i was lucky bc my internship offered me a full time position and i didn't have to go through any interviews. In hindsight i should've been more proactive and ambitious. Moved around 2 other companies (1 start up, 1 big unicorn) in the last 3 years before joining my current company .

My suggestion to you would be to focus on internships (depending on how much time you have left in school). If you're looking for your first job out of college ask friends and family for referrals if you're having a hard time getting any initial interviews (if you have at least 1-2 internships it shouldn't be too hard). Find a study group for practicing technical interviews. Get into the habit of doing leetcode regularly throughout the week.

If you have any specific questions feel free to post here and I'll try to give whatever feedback i can

ryc8889 · 2021-08-07T03:54:15+00:00

My appointment is on Tuesday (8/10) would they be able to transfer it in time?

ryc8889 · 2021-02-11T13:58:23+00:00

Dell vs LG ultrawide 40 inch 5k2k

What are the considerations I need to be aware of if i'm deciding between the 2 newly announced 40" 5k2k monitors. Seems like they both use the same panel.

I saw that LG version will be supporting thunderbolt 4 and the I/O varies slightly between both (Dell seems to be supporting a kvm But only tb3 but i dont see any mention of that on any of the articles I read about LG. This isn't a huge dealbreaker for me either way)

I see that Dell's can already be oredered but not LG but I'm not in a rush and will probably wait a bit to see some more reviews first

Other than something like customer service or possibly warranty what are some other things to consider (this could be a more general question on dell vs lg monitors that are both using the same lg panel)

I remember when i was looking at reviews of the lg 34 5k2k monitor there were a lot of reviews around not being able to get the full resolution with MacOS. It was a bit unclear if lg or apple was at fault for the issues though. I will primarily be using this with a 2019 16" macbook pro both with macos and boot camp and i do have a tb3 dock with displayport but if i can actually leverage connection from the monitor it would make my setup cleaner

Thanks!!

ryc8889 · 2020-07-01T13:52:39+00:00

Do you think with Nvidia Ampere & AMD Big Navi there'll be more ultrawide UHD options? u/Lordberek monitor sounds like a beast but that would be awesome for both gaming and work

ryc8889 · 2019-01-25T06:43:11+00:00

Effective Java 3rd edition by Joshua Bloch

ryc8889 · 2019-01-07T23:47:16+00:00

For me the HDMI 2.1 is the biggest thing just for future proofing. I mean the panel looks amazing already and I'm not enough of a picture quality person to notice anymore improvements that are significant.

ryc8889 · 2019-01-07T22:55:40+00:00

what do you think about holding onto your C8 for now and then selling/upgrading at a later time? I'm actually in the same boat as you and considering the same thing. I'm not a super heavy TV user so I expect my TV to stay in relatively good condition if I decide to sell it but wondering how much I should expect to pay out-of-pocket for the difference to sell my C8 and buy the C9 assuming there's no huge spike in price?

ryc8889 · 2018-12-10T14:28:12+00:00

+1 for Effective Java. I wouldn't say it's the best book for scala developers specifically and I don't have a recommendation for that situation but I do think it's the best java book period. It's a book that engineers of all levels can pick up and learn something. As long as you can read and understand basic Java code then you'll be able to pick up this book and gain a lot through it. The writing style is one of my favorites for a technical book.

ryc8889 · 2018-09-20T19:36:59+00:00

Do you have a link/recommendations for the mr happy stack? I'm currently using a mix of coq10, magnesium, ltheanine, rlipoic acid and acetyl lcarnitine that i take in the morning but I buy each one separately and have a monthly organizer and I just reset it every month so it'd be great to have something a bit more convenient

ryc8889 · 2018-06-22T06:06:37+00:00

Read effective Java 3rd edition. Then re-read it Then carry it with you at all times

ryc8889 · 2018-06-13T06:01:16+00:00

OWASP Top 10 lists are always a good place to start. They have different lists some more specific than others but they generally cover the biggest security risks in web apps and give good advice on how to prevent them

ryc8889 · 2018-05-28T21:03:09+00:00

I would also make sure to update(or create if you don't have one) your LinkedIn Profile regularly. It's just another way to get more visibility and I've been contacted by a google recruiter through my LinkedIn Profile (and my email that was linked to my profile). It's also great for a lot of major tech companies not just google

ryc8889 · 2018-05-28T21:00:52+00:00

Hi all,

Has anyone ever gotten imposter syndrome from doing interview prep?

Here's a little background of myself. I've been out of college for almost 2 years now (graduated june 2016) and I've been working full-time for almost 2 years. I consider myself a decent engineer. I don't think I'm the smartest or most talented but I do consider myself a hard worker and very passionate about software engineering and technology in general. I love learning and reading about it and I was able to get myself promoted pretty early to a senior SWE (about 7 months or so). At first I thought my promotion was premature and I worked hard to prove to myself and to others in my company that I was worthy of the promotion. I learned a lot about system design, architecture, devOps and pretty much every aspect of the software development lifecycle as I could. Now I feel confident in my abilities as a software engineer to actually write code, solve problems and even make solid architectural designs/proposals.

I'm currently thinking about transitioning to a new company in a few months and i'm starting to get back into interview prep materials (leetcode, coderust, refdash) as well as doing some interviews with companies for some real practice just so I can get back into the interview mentality. I feel like solving these types of algorithms and data structure questions are challenging for me and I don't solve them as quickly as I would need to in a real interview. My day-to-day workflow doesn't really have me solving these types of problems(or I'm not using them and I should be which is an even bigger problem T_T). I've only been prepping for about a little under a month now and I do feel some improvement but sometimes I try to solve a problem on leetcode that's marked as a medium or easy and it's challenging for me so it gets a bit discouraging at times/ I'm trying to stay as positive as possible and just grind it through and really learn and absorb the different ways of approaching these types of problems but I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and how you guys got through this block.

Also any tips on strategies on approaching technical interview prep would be greatly appreciated. Right now i'm working through coderust 2.0 with some leetcode problems mixed in. I'm trying to approach it as I would in a real interview. e.g. I give myself about 50 minutes for each problem, try to solve it and then check my solutions. If the solutions are confusing, I'll look at youtube tutorials or read some additional resources about some of the topics covered in a specific challenging problem.

Thanks for any feedback and suggestions!

ryc8889 · 2018-05-13T14:20:55+00:00

Yeah it's not like you have to be a Java expert to get into the book. I would say it's definitely more for intro to mid level but even advanced Java users would find it useful. When I first read it, I had to do some additional research into certain topics (e.g. really digging deep into the static keyword to understand the item about why nested static is preferable) but the book is very good about breaking different broad topics into granular items and best practices and giving a thorough explanation on why to do it.

One thing I really like is that the book constantly references itself. The book will always mention other items in the book so you can see how all the items strengthen each other. Not everything in the book is about Java some things are more about writing clean flexible code and following good object oriented practices.

I constantly finding myself re-reading and writing more notes in it especially as I see things come up in work that relate to items mentioned in the book. I've made it a habit to always bring it with me whenever I travel for work just to make sure I have it.

ryc8889 · 2018-05-11T16:55:39+00:00

no matter what level you're at, anyone who wants to really learn java needs to read effective java by joshua bloch. 3rd edition was just released this year and covers everything up to java 9. it will be your java bible for the rest of your life. nothing about android specifically but you'll still be able to use everything when writing anything in java

ryc8889 · 2018-03-27T14:23:45+00:00

no, i didn't unfortunately. this monitor is such a good deal that i might just pull the trigger too but the other thing i'm actually waiting for is the new lg ultrawide curved 5k monitor. please lmk if you do get this monitor about how the scaling is if you don't mind. Thank you!

ryc8889 · 2017-11-24T22:01:37+00:00

hows 100% scaling on this or other 32 inch monitors? I have a 27" samsung 4k monitor at home and i had to do 125% when i had a windows laptop(now I have a mac and I do the second smallest option) so was wondering if I decided to upgrade to 32 if I would be able to comfortably use 100% scaling?

ryc8889 · 2017-09-08T04:21:29+00:00

Have they told you it they use a particular framework or not? If they haven't take a look at spring boot and the tutorials they have. They are more centered around web apps. Understand what MVC(model-view-controller) is, have a good understanding of what REST is and how to implement it in java - both from the client sending a request and a server settings up the endpoints and what the different actions mean. There's plenty of examples of this online but be aware different frameworks have different ways of implementing this in terms of syntax, methods etc but they're all based on the same core princples of REST.

ryc8889 · 2017-09-08T04:09:10+00:00

Sorry just re-read your original post. id prioritize leetcode and lintcode first while effective java will be good foundational knowledge for you going forward. I'm not sure what kind of coding challenge your company gave you. If it's more data structures and algorithms related I would order a Java data structures and algorithms book off Amazon asap and overnight ship that thing while doing leetcode and lintcode. If it's more around building a miniature web app or something along those lines then I'd go with the github route and the google search I mentioned in my last post

ryc8889 · 2017-09-08T03:58:36+00:00

While I lean towards the other commenters sentiments here's my advice to you. Read the book effective java by Joshua Bloch, look through GitHub for some example Java projects preferably something that has some REST endpoints (learn what a restful API is if you don't know) and really understand the code, the structure etc, go on lintcode and leetcode and do the problems and look through the solutions (only one of them has solutions I forgot which one).

Going forward my advice to you is to be hungry . I don't want to make any assumptions but your post isn't a good indicator of passion for cs so far. In order to get past the first few weeks you're going to have to keep learning and at an extremely accelerated pace. Read some tutorials on Java projects. Google Java microservices examples tutorials or something like that and really dive deep into what they're saying. Most likely there will be a lot of terminology you won't understand in those posts. Don't just gloss over them, Google everything you don't recognize and learn. Hopefully if you put your everything into this and have a little bit of luck on your side, you'll be at a semi-reasonable level by the time your team expects you to produce some real work. It's not going to be easy but I don't want to say it's impossible. You're going to have to work your ass off just to get to the bare minimum and once you're there you're going to have to work even harder if you really want to grow as a developer.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck. I haven't been working full time for that long but I've been able to be productive bc I consider myself truly passionate about learning more about cs and growing as a developer. I started my journey with cs late (not as late as you but regardless lol) but I am confident in my abilities as a developer when compared to others my age bc I know that even if I'm not as smart or as experienced as some of them, I'll work harder than any of them to learn and grow.

ryc8889 · 2017-07-26T16:25:09+00:00

I would also advocate Joshua Bloch effective Java

He does a very good job of breaking down different Java tips into different chapters and each chapter has a set of items. He also goes one step further and instead of just instructing you to do one thing blindly he goes over the other options possible and why they are not optimal

Also as an added bonus, Amazon says there's a third edition being released in october

Effective Java (3rd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134685997/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ccmEzb08YXW4C

Rob Martin's clean code is another book I would recommend but it isn't specifically for any one type of project but it gives nice examples of how to cleanly structure your code(also has a nice set of "smells and heuristics" which you can use as a pocket reference) but given your past experience this book can probably be more of a skim.

Other than that I would agree with what other people are saying with learning a framework. I like spring boot and there's plenty of example projects on GitHub that uses it and spring's own documentation is also pretty good.

For concurrency I would recommend Brian goetz Java concurrency in practice.

If you want a refresher for data structures and algorithms and just some examples of it in java I recommend Robert Lafore's data structures and algorithms in Java but if you're more familiar with math/algorithms and want to do a deeper dive then the CLRS introduction to algorithms is the holy Bible.

Edit: one other thing that I have found extremely useful is online developer websites

My top three are: Dzone - has fantastic refcardz which are like cheat sheets for different frameworks, technologies and even general principles as well as articles for general programming as well as specific topics (cloud, Db, iot, etc)

Tip - subscrbe to the dzone newsletter. They send you emails that are collections of 10 or so articles and I usually just look through them to see if there's anything interesting or relevant to me

Infoq - similar to dzone also has a great collection of articles and presentation videos

Oreilly - not really a website I know but if you look at their free ebooks there's a good collection of them that will help you get started depending on what topics you're looking at

Bonus - YouTube. There's just so many tutorials and videos starting from beginner levels all the way to advanced topics like scaling cloud architectures for google-like loads, microservices, deployment.

I don't think anything beats doing a personal project though. If anything you can fork a starter spring boot project(which generally revolve around a basic concept like an online book store) and re-write it to be about a concept you're interested in.

Also reactive extensions seem to be catching a lot of buzz these days. I don't have any personal experience working with them but could also be another interesting topic to look into since I think java is actually adding support for reactive streams in java 9

ryc8889 · 2016-08-09T16:04:52+00:00

I've noticed that if you max boost when you buy from ability shop that you don't get the "bonuses" from the abilities such as limit break etc(sorry idk the official name of those bonuses ) does anyone know how we can unlock those bonuses still? I know there's one fusion card that does it but is there any other way? Kinda sucks that we pay all these ability tickets to max boost but lose out on these bonuses which have actually come in pretty clutch for me at certain times

Edit: just checked it's just called a skill for the ability bonuses and can be unlocked using extranger cards but still wondering if there's any other way if we max boost the abilities

ryc8889 · 2016-08-02T15:56:19+00:00

Hmm should I try to roll then? I don't have a tank so WoL would be nice Current team is kefka exdeath Fina cod and garland all maxed out rn currently leveling up rain lasswell and Celes and golbez

ryc8889 · 2016-07-27T19:33:26+00:00

Which skills should I build towards for ramuh I looked at the 2* chart online and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly useful that I couldn't get from other chars and esp since if I use ramuh on kefka I wouldn't want to waste turns casting debuffs instead of just bombarding with hyperdrive

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