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| Topic | man... what does it take to get a job in computer science as a developer? |
| darkmaian23 10/17/18 12:04:09 AM #19 | Milkman5 posted... they want industry experience and I don't have any Then you need to get some. Somewhere out there is someone who will give you that first opportunity you need. It's great you've got some experience, but make sure you curate what you're showing prospective employers so that it is your best work. Apply everywhere you can for the job you want even if it asks for experience you don't have. Be ready to sell yourself as someone who is hungry for opportunity and is waiting to show off their skills. One other thing. When you say you know something, make sure you really do know it and have projects on github that back up your experience. Knowing something in business terms means they can give you a project to do with that skill that will make them money and you can do it. It's possible that you might be overestimating your own skills and some places that would hire you are passing you over based on what you've shown them. If you don't have a CS degree, a lot of places require one unless you have extensive experience so you might want to think about taking classes too. Good luck man. ^_^ |
| Topic | man... what does it take to get a job in computer science as a developer? |
| darkmaian23 10/16/18 11:50:05 PM #8 | What skills do you have? Take the job in QA and build a portfolio on your own time while building your skills and looking for work that interests you. |
| Topic | Would you let your vampire boyfriend or girlfriend bite you? |
| darkmaian23 10/16/18 6:08:12 AM #8 | What kind of vampire are they? If its the kind of vampire where you get all kinds of powers with minimal hassle, sure. If it's something like Salem's Lot where you become an evil, souless undead with no free will or anything on that spectrum, hell no. |
| Topic | If you wouldn't let your girlfriend look through your phone |
| darkmaian23 10/16/18 6:05:58 AM #14 | soylentgreen posted... Stupid topic |
| Topic | Australian encryption-busting Bill would create backdoors: Cisco |
| darkmaian23 10/15/18 12:00:42 PM #14 | The CLOUD Act was seen as beneficial to major tech companies because it reduced legal fees. I can't imagine any benefit for anyone other than law enforcement and government in terms of this new legislation. |
| Topic | Australian encryption-busting Bill would create backdoors: Cisco |
| darkmaian23 10/15/18 10:51:17 AM #12 | @Kombucha Ack, you replied a minute before I deleted my post. I made that comment after seeing comments in another article claiming Apple basically supported the legislation. After I made my post, I thought to read it for myself and found they were lying. As you say, Apple opposes basically every part this legislation, and the only "good" thing they say basically amount to being smooth and making officials feel good about themselves. Do you think the bill will die? Stuff like this gets proposed every now and again in the US, but it usually dies. Supposedly a number of nations are in favor of this kind of thing so it has me worried. I'd like for it to die and go away for couple of years. Is that unrealistic do you think? |
| Topic | Australian encryption-busting Bill would create backdoors: Cisco |
| darkmaian23 10/15/18 10:09:16 AM #8 | RainblowDash posted... Just dont market to Australia then, problem solved. Unfortunately not. Other major nations--including the US--have signaled their desire to get legislation like this passed. Australia will just be the first. |
| Topic | Does anyone from Australia know if that anti-encryption bill might die? |
| darkmaian23 10/13/18 8:17:09 PM #6 | Kombucha posted... i would be surprised if it survived, both google and facebook (along with a few other companies) are trying their best to fight it. i dislike both companies for online privacy in general but for killing some bad legislation with extreme privacy implications they seem alright. I'd heard that Apple opposes the bill and sent a strongly-worded letter to the government, but in the current political climate with so many forces pushing for it, I'm still afraid it will pass and set a precedent for the rest of the Western world. |
| Topic | Does anyone from Australia know if that anti-encryption bill might die? |
| darkmaian23 10/13/18 7:21:32 PM #4 | Funkydog posted... You say that like Britain doesn't already have its own version. While the British Investigatory Powers Act is unfortunate, this new Australian legislation would give the police and security agencies the power to demand any tech company install a backdoor for their use in any software for any length of time, secretly. That includes encryption. This is a step above what the UK has, and even though it hasn't passed yet, Australia is already encouraging other nations to prepare similar legislation. |
| Topic | Does anyone from Australia know if that anti-encryption bill might die? |
| darkmaian23 10/13/18 5:42:27 PM #2 | I'm going to bump this just once. |
| Topic | So yeah. About my cousin. |
| darkmaian23 10/13/18 12:25:52 AM #17 | Sayoria posted... Non-life threatening. Outstanding! |
| Topic | So yeah. About my cousin. |
| darkmaian23 10/12/18 10:06:30 PM #7 | I'm really sorry to hear that. =/ |
| Topic | Does anyone from Australia know if that anti-encryption bill might die? |
| darkmaian23 10/12/18 8:47:25 PM #1 | I read last week that the vote is scheduled for next Friday, and I've been reading that strong opposition to the bill is springing up. That gives me some hope that it might not pass, but a week from now isn't a very long time. I'm not from Australia myself, but you can bet the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada will be getting versions of this bill if it succeeds. I can't abide the thought that all public communications will be made insecure, or that back doors and spyware will be installed secretly on all manner of personal devices en masse simply to try and catch the few serious criminals police otherwise miss. Utterly absurd. |
| Topic | I have a Physics paper due in 6 hours and I have no idea how to do it. |
| darkmaian23 10/08/18 7:50:02 AM #22 | Nidhoggr posted... You see the problem is, I've been cheating in this course since day 1, and I cheated in the Calculus classes before this. So I have no idea how to do equations of any sort lol. If you've been cheating the entire time and don't understand how to do anything, you deserve to fail. When you decide to take your studies seriously, you might want to go somewhere else. Making presentations in physics sounds like a complete waste of time, and that homework was very easy. |
| Topic | $1,000,000 a year but every girl you have sex with absolutely gets pregnant. |
| darkmaian23 10/08/18 5:49:03 AM #24 | hockeybub89 posted... I'm never going to have sex, so free money |
| Topic | Remember webcomics? |
| darkmaian23 10/03/18 3:56:33 PM #7 | Foppe posted... I always check smbc, xkcd and oglaf. |
| Topic | What is a trustworthy news source for conservatives |
| darkmaian23 10/03/18 1:52:03 PM #22 | Villain posted... NPR This. The conservatives that I know all listen to and trust NPR. |
| Topic | ''I'm innocent!! I did nothing wrong! She's lying!!!'' |
| darkmaian23 09/28/18 7:07:09 PM #73 | ultimate reaver posted... tommy: i did not hit her. its not true. i did not hit her. i did not. oh hi mark Your post wins the internet. |
| Topic | EU will vote on extinction-level anti-internet regulations in 1 week |
| darkmaian23 09/22/18 11:05:52 AM #149 | M3sterybumper posted... About a week left until judgment day I thought the final vote was sometime in December? What happens next week? |
| Topic | EU will vote on extinction-level anti-internet regulations in 1 week |
| darkmaian23 09/15/18 8:03:40 AM #106 | Total_Lost2 posted... People overreact to this legislation way to much. They hear a few buzzwords and scream hell, without actually knowing what the hell it means. Similar to the whole "They're going to kill memes" **** I skimmed the text of the legislation, and I agree with the concern. So do a huge number of experts on technology. Which part are the experts wrong about again? Or were you just assuming it can't be that bad and so want to call everyone who is worried about it stupid? |
| Topic | EU will vote on extinction-level anti-internet regulations in 1 week |
| darkmaian23 09/13/18 2:00:18 PM #89 | DragonGirlYuki posted... Is it official yet? Disclaimer: I don't understand the EU legislative process. But from what I've read, apparently there be another vote in a few months to finalize things completely, and then the individual nations within the EU must implement it as they see fit. Not sure how much wiggle room that gives for the blow to be lessened. |
| Topic | What did your school do during 9/11? >_> |
| darkmaian23 09/11/18 11:07:05 AM #42 | Some teachers had the TV on so they could follow what was happening, and others said they weren't going to let it affect classes and carried on as usual. |
| Topic | Good idea to start Yu Yu Hakusho? |
| darkmaian23 09/11/18 8:52:45 AM #11 | Solar_Crimson posted... Yomi posted...Lordgold666 posted...Verytripleh213 posted...Yes |
| Topic | honestly how were you supposed to beat Goldeneye without a guide? |
| darkmaian23 09/10/18 4:52:08 AM #69 | Some of the levels in Goldeneye were very poorly designed, but to the point where you couldn't beat the game if you worked at it. |
| Topic | What don't you get about evolution? |
| darkmaian23 09/09/18 8:18:32 AM #176 | PokemonExpert44 posted... There's overwhelming evidence for intelligent design. Such as? In the course of writing my final paper for an advanced writing class, I read every book and article I could find by intelligent design proponents. All of them featured an abundance of hand-waving, emotional appeals, and flimsy arguments. Intelligent design doesn't make any testable predictions, and therefore cannot be considered a real scientific theory. Are you familiar with the Dover court case? The experts called to defend intelligent design were utterly destroyed, and a conservative judge ruled that intelligent design is essentially rebranded creationism; it's religion, not science. If someone has come out with a new book or novel argument, I really would like to hear about it. KhanJohnny posted... Yeah fucking Darwin is just another old dead white man, who really didnt know the first shit about anything, and the suckers are just slurping it up Let's assume that right and Charles Darwin didn't understand anything. It wouldn't matter because the work of generations of scientists have confirmed Darwin's findings and expanded on them. Even if he was ignorant, he got it right with evolution. And even if there hadn't been a Darwin or even fossils to examine, we would have eventually discovered evolution through other lines of evidence, such as genetics. |
| Topic | My tier list for Marvel movies |
| darkmaian23 09/09/18 3:27:47 AM #13 | Doctor Strange belongs in tier one or tier two, not at the bottom. It's easily one of the best films in the MCU. |
| Topic | Do you believe in a higher power or force? |
| darkmaian23 09/08/18 4:00:59 AM #7 | No. |
| Topic | EU will vote on extinction-level anti-internet regulations in 1 week |
| darkmaian23 09/08/18 12:58:12 AM #26 | Does anyone know how likely this is to pass? I apologize--I know I ask this in every topic--but for all the reading I've done, I don't know how serious the threat is. |
| Topic | How is Axiom Verge? |
| darkmaian23 09/06/18 7:05:14 PM #4 | The game is great, but... DoGCyN posted... There comes a point in the game where it makes a questionable control scheme change that hurts the game for the worse (worst?). It's great up to that point, but once that control scheme change comes in, you'll be "accidentally" using it constantly and it's very frustrating. This. It's totally worth your time, but the controls do become frustrating at a certain point. Everything else in the game is so well done that I'm surprised the developer never released a patch to fix that one thing. |
| Topic | EU copyright reform could end the vibrant free web as we know it. |
| darkmaian23 09/04/18 5:36:45 PM #30 | @FLUFFYGERM Could you please stay on topic? This topic is about EU Copyright reform; there is a separate on you've made about Australia's surveillance legislation. I agree they are both important, but it's hard enough to get people to notice and care about this law without muddying the discussion with other laws. Vampire_Wreath posted... Sounds like a big nothingburger Are you just trolling? If not, I'd urge you to read up about the copyright reform the EU is proposing. It will drastically affect the internet everywhere in a negative way and is something worth knowing about. |
| Topic | EU copyright reform could end the vibrant free web as we know it. |
| darkmaian23 09/04/18 5:15:54 PM #22 | Burgess posted... I don't know EU internet so I wouldn't be losing anything. Burgess posted... They can't tell us what to do. Unfortunately, the internet is a global thing, and every time the EU passes legislation that affects the internet, it affects us all. You know those lovely banners that talk about using cookies that appear now at the bottom of every website? That's because of EU laws. Is this likely to pass? I know they delayed the vote over the summer because of the huge backlash against it, but I don't know if people in the EU are still fighting against it or how unpopular it is. |
| Topic | Does anyone know the status of that EU upload filter legislation? |
| darkmaian23 08/25/18 4:38:16 AM #1 | Earlier this summer, the EU was working on legislation to make the monitoring of all internet uploads for copyright infringement mandatory. The last I heard, they decided to put off a vote until sometime in the fall (possibly because of the strong public backlash). Can someone from the EU knowledgeable about politics comment on the ultimate fate of the legislation? Is it going to be quietly passed in September? Is it dead? Is it coming back, but with changes to make it less horrible? Thanks in advance to all who reply! |
| Topic | Who was the best Star Trek Captain? (Spoilers for all Star Trek series) |
| darkmaian23 08/23/18 1:01:56 AM #47 | I love TOS, but Kirk was a horrible captain. He broke the Prime Directive every other episode and burned through red shirts like they were firewood. That the Enterprise crew accomplished so much was pretty much down to Scotty, Bones, and Spock propping Kirk up and ensuring things went to plan. To me, Archer wasn't very likeable as a person but he generally did very well with what he had to work with. Enterprise being the weakest series doesn't do him any favors either. Janeway is a mixed bag. There was no safety net in the delta quadrant, and a lot of her poor decisions would have been hard to call either way if you were stuck in her place with no hope of any backup. I liked Janeway as a character, and like Archer, the character was given a lot of bad episodes and arcs that dragged her down. Sisko was awesome. DS9 took awhile to find its footing, but Sisko was consistently good and made the hard choices when he needed to. Picard was the best overall and it isn't even close. TNG is also my favorite Star Trek series by a mile. |
| Topic | EU plans to fine all social media that doesn't delete "terror" in 1hr |
| darkmaian23 08/22/18 5:48:01 AM #17 | I don't understand how anyone could reasonably expect any kind of content to detected and removed within one hour. Actually, I don't think it's reasonable to expect companies to find all of it in the first place. How is objectionable content found? By humans who review the content (nobody can read every tweet as they get sent out), by automated filters (better, but tons of stuff will slip through), and by regular users who see the content and report it (still has to be reviewed by a person). A rule like this isn't about fighting terror, it's about control. Setting an impossibly high standard serves two purposes: it lets politicians appear tough, and it sets companies up to fail so that lawmakers can have an excuse to apply further fines or draft legislation giving the government more control for "safety and security" reasons. |
| Topic | CNN: "Why most people don't finish video games." |
| darkmaian23 08/21/18 12:23:25 AM #23 | catboy0_0 posted... It always weirds me out that the first level or whatever achievement is like 99% then it drops to like 10% and less for everything else in games I complete. I feel the same way. There has to be something terribly wrong with a game for me not to finish it if I get into it. |
| Topic | Australians who won't unlock their phones for cops could face 10 years in jail |
| darkmaian23 08/19/18 6:33:46 AM #88 | Sphyx posted... So, the usual suspects just overreacting to nothing again? Did you read the article? It's far from being nothing. |
| Topic | Australians who won't unlock their phones for cops could face 10 years in jail |
| darkmaian23 08/18/18 7:55:49 PM #55 | Frolex posted... the only difference is that the scope of this bill would potentially allow law enforcement to compel providers to create special backdoors in devices that they could use in other investigations. something the US has already tried to force as well Tried and failed, though we do of course have our issues with police powers and government surveillance here too. My main question remains: how likely is this to become law in Australia, and why isn't this being talked about more? |
| Topic | Australians who won't unlock their phones for cops could face 10 years in jail |
| darkmaian23 08/18/18 6:55:47 PM #15 | I didn't mean to make this a US vs. Australia thing. It just sounds awful, and I'd like to know if this really has any chance of passing or if it's just posturing from an incompetent government. |
| Topic | Australians who won't unlock their phones for cops could face 10 years in jail |
| darkmaian23 08/18/18 6:46:09 PM #10 | I'm bumping this because I just saw an article on it. Is this sort of garbage really going to pass? I know nothing about Australian politics or the basic rights you are guaranteed. 10 years sounds ridiculous, and here in the US law enforcement has been repeatedly told to fuck off when they've tried to get court orders forcing companies to develop software for them. |
| Topic | Trying to learn programming again with all this free time I have. Any recs? |
| darkmaian23 08/03/18 3:53:24 AM #16 | Start with Python. Any resource is good, just make sure you're working on some version of Python 3 as you learn so the code isn't stale and you'll be good. Python is used in just about every except embedded systems so you'll get plenty of use out of it for hobby projects no matter what you decide to do. It's also hot with employers and easier and faster to learn than many other languages. |
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