Lurker > IllegalAlien

TC you're always posting about this shit so imma give you some real world advice.

No degree will open up a career for you (well except maybe a small handful). you're still living in the lie that college is the single most important metric about an individual's career, it's not.

You need to decide WHAT you want to do, then get the skills (and indeed perhaps a degree or credential) to make it in that field...

iirc you have a Phil degree from U Toronto. that's really great, many people in your same shoes have made it very far in life. it's not the only thing that was great about them though.

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

here's the thing, from a theoretical pure subject perspective economics has some beautiful ideas. game theory etc. but there's nothing tangible. Comp Sci has a lot of beautiful ideas but has the side effect of imparting practical skills in software dev. unfortunately that leads people to think CS is just dev and not the beautiful theoretical field.

-shrug-

at least we get paid

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Useless, but that didn't stop my old manager from having one

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Moved to Denver in 2018, houses in the burbs were pretty reasonable. 500k would get you a 3 car garage nice house. Now the same ones are 650-700k (probably more). It's fucked up, but gonna move to New Mexico and get a nice house on the cheap

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

wtf I just became a ? block

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

dude I bought my girl a fucking apple watch when they first came out and she never wore it

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

lmao nice

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

what? my side hustle is leetcode and online masters, I don't have time for anything else. otherwise I would value my time at >$100 per hour to get me to do anything else

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

idk man do you need external validation? if it's interesting to you and changes your perspective then you should study it.. or you should study it and form your own opinion if you haven't

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

yes and it's a lot

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TheoryzC posted...

Lmaoo do you at least get a discount?

I'm work in corporate so yes, well all get free internet and cable worth >$100/month don't really remember what the package is but it's fast

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Xfinity internet works great for me but yeah the website is complete shit. They even discontinued me from automatic payments and my service eventually shutdown during the work day... I work at Comcast too lol............. I can only imagine the chucklefucks on the Xfinity.com team, like fuck dude fire these people and hire some competent developers plz

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Yeah animated Clerks is amazing, great nostalgia for me

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god damn...

shirts nowadays are literally bras

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ModLogic posted...

lol I remember this meme

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listen here, if I don't have 2 vegy topics or vegy impersonator topics on the front page of ce everyday there is not balance in the universe

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husband a cuck

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

pretty much all of central and south america

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korean girls

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

If you work in tech, they're pretty much the defacto work machine

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Anyone who was even remotely awake during the last 4 years knew this already.

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looks uninspired

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Airhammy posted...

This is from 4 years ago when he and Misty appeared in the Sun & Moon season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z34EFV9y2Q

those designs are so shit

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It's not the best, but tbf most companies would just make him work the weekend as a salaried employee lol

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3k crypto / 100k stonks

I want to go to 5k crypto at my total wealth, anything more would be incredibly risky imo

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electricbugs2 posted...

Pretty much. Topics like this would have been an insta ban during the KoS days.

Somehow I knew it

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woah TC is vegy, who tf else could be vegy hmmmm ;;;;;;000

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

not liking arby's is like an adolescent phase tbh

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

A lot of training, kinda hard overall

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

I went to a poopy undergrad on a full ride, then PhD at a good school for free & mastered out, now I'm paying 1k a class for an online masters. 4 degrees in the end will cost me 10k (not counting that I was paid during PhD).

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muchdran posted...

Comcast? Because every other company runs fiber to the house. Atleast around here.

yeah not sure if that's already common but here's some blurb if you google: comcast-reaches-10g-gig-symmetrical-speeds-digital-hfc-network

I'm a data scientist tho not a network eng and this is just something I remember from some random meeting sometime relatively recently

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

I work at a massive telecom, the one that everyone hates. Apparently the next big thing is symmetric up/down speeds IIRC.

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damn dude -- you're right tho those are pretty pointy :thinking face:

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what an old name

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yikes that's a lot, and I smoke a shit ton (well I used to, and still have a god level tolerance even after any amount of break)

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Maybe he made a lot of money and burned out..? I know I daydream of doing something easy af after I make some fuck you money, not sure I would exactly choose to work at an Amazon warehouse but w.e

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TheGoldenEel posted...

In no universe is Colorado the midwest

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DeroIin posted...

Dont tip

he probably didn't tip, so the only way for it to be profitable for the driver is to double or triple dip on orders

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

you're the one crying about your poor interviewing practice not me, keep asking people who don't grind leetcode problems leetcode problems and then cry when you can't find an Angular CRUD developer lol

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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

Modified binary search problems are common leetcode problems which are asked nowadays. I can ask you an arbitrarily tricky modified binary search problem, and when you fail it I can just chalk it up to weak fundamentals right?

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I Like Toast posted...

he was told to ensure he has his environment set up and to be able to setup a new angular app.

neither of these are 'leetcode' one is can you actually write code and listen to instructions (many do 0-99 instead of 1-100), the second is we found the app is running slow, how can we improve the logic. Brute force is fine 99% of the time in real world situations, sometimes it's not and we need to be able to re-work the logic. In neither case am I evaluating the efficiency of their solution compared to others, it's entirely trying to get to do they think out their answers. Even if they come up with a wrong answer, seeing them realize it's a wrong answer is good to me. Especially in the WFH world we're in where I need to trust they're going to be reasonably efficient with their time.

fizzbuzz isn't leetcode b/c it's the basic filter, but magic index or w.e. certainly is. modified binary search problems are common nowadays... if you actually took the effort to wrap magic index around a real world problem then good job, but it's still a leetcode problem when you ask to go from O(n) to O(nlgn) and the solution is modified binary search........

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Both are easy, I mean fizzbizz is trivial not really sure how you can optimize it since you need to output for every number but w.e.

Magic index is probably on the easier side, maybe an easy medium level question..

They say that most candidates can't code out of a paper bag tho, and tbh is asking leetcode questions when you're not a major tech company really the best way to screen a candidate? you should give a code snippet with bugs and ask what's wrong and how to improve

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midwest emo is great

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-l___________l- posted...

Gas in PA is like $2.90 right now what are you on

back in 2010-2014 era gas in PA was close to $4/gal

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it's sooo oo fucking salty. inedible, honestly worse than McDonalds.

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