Yay!
hey!!
Anyone there?
sorry for not responding earlier
I've been getting on like once every 10 minutes looking for someone
haha
Oh no problem
you're not the one in first place are ya??
i get people are busy and have lives hahaha
I'm pretty sure it's KJ
Am I? The world may never know
I'm compiling a massive excel file with names
lol hahahhaha
I'll get you in there eventually
That's hilarious
I'm trying to find correlations between vocabulary and points
It's pretty easy to tell after ending a conversation with someone I figured out where KJ is and that's all I care about
yeah I guess. Especially at the moment. But you can't win two my man
She's the only real main threat
didnt't they send you an email already?
nope
KJ is a she???
I didn't finish first last round I finished like 3rd So I have no idea who won I'll be in and out of this chat fyi because i'm cooking dinner too
I totally thought that KJ was a dude
So just be patient with me haha
he kept talking about my typing speed okok no worries
Nope, she's a girl who is waiting till her mission comes
I'm at the lab, as usual
she's not in school and not working
ahhh that makes so much sense now
So she's got a lot of free time giving her a big advantage
yeah, it's insane. But I still have no idea how you're doing all that don't you have classes and stuff to do too??? the big flaw in this game is that there's not enough participants that once there's a sizable point difference, the only person you will run into is the people at the top, which makes it impossible to catch up
I do haha
they should put a point multiplier proportional to those below, to incentivize more participation
I'm currently watching friends, on chit chat and cooking dinner
for the sake of the research what a pro man!!! haha that's amazing
That would get really annoying for those on top though I have a test I need to study for so I'll probably stop here in 15 minutes and pick it up again around 6 or 7 we will see
yeah just saying that's how I would do it if I was the reasearcher
Oh yeah, that would help
okay no worries it's all fine with me
They need to announce the challenge more too. I think they did that today, because a lot more people were on today then last week.
yeah....I sent them an email just now demanding to know who won round one otherwise I'd stop playing
My dog just got stitches out today and is being a little sass ball because of it haha
they're losing participants too, round 2 has way less people than round 1 the top 5 always account for 80 percent plus
hahaha, they said they'd send an email "promptly", but they never did true
Pareto principle in full effect
Honestly, they'll end up getting about the same amounts of points probably
awww poor dog I had a few dozen splinters after cutting my hair last night
yeah, she had to go twice today actually because they missed a stitch
my hair is so thick it gets into my skin
oh dang
when i try to shake it off
how did that happen oh wow That's rough man
yeah, it's pretty insane but any price for a haircut I can't stand walking around with anything more than a really short haircut
Same Although I usually wait a while because i'm cheap like that hahha
I've probably saved a few hundred dollars by cutting my own hair I running out of things to streamline....
plus in the CS program you don't exactly have to look business professional ever haha
what's your budget like for food and stuff?
So i'm married so that changes things a little
yeah it's amazing!! I take a bunch of business classes and it makes me laugh all the things accountants and finance students are willing to do to look impresssive ahhh yeah that does huh
i'd say after rent and utilities we put about 5-10% of our money into savings and then whatever is remaining gets split between clothes/medical and food
that's great! I'm a huge nut of FIRE
If you're not married yet you should just save as much money as you can Nothing more attractice to a girl than a guy whose responsible with money haha
I've considered entering into a civil union with a dude just to get the tax benefits
lol
whatever it takes do you have a job right now?
I do, so my wife works full time and I work part time while studying She graduated 1.5 years ago
what degree? that's awesome
PD BIO She's waiting responses from PA schools currently actually
wow good on her what kind of job are you doing right now does it have anything to do with your major?
I'm an application developer But currently interviewing for other jobs I want to do more front end development Currently I do more backend stuff which isn't as exciting for me yeah I'm a CS major
ahh awesome
Are you a CS major?  I forget
like PWAs? yeah I'm the CS aspiring day trader lolololol
Oh right!
I'm actually trying to learn vue and flask right now!! super excited, but trying to find more time for it
nice!
what kind of apps are you making?
I've used vue before Well technically it was called Pug before they changed it
yeah our team just picked it because we couldn't decided between angular and react
you should use express with vue way easy to use oh react is way better choice
yeah? I'll look into it for sure that's what I hear
It's way more dynamic and way easier across various platforms
hmm
Like even if no one knows how to do it.  Yall should learn and choose react over anything all day
interesting I thought vue was supposed to be the most dynamic angular is a tad bit heavy but react documentation is scattered I hear what are you doing in backend? mongo?
I was on a startup and we used React Native.  We were able to make a website, app for all kinds of devices and it all worked smoothly together it was the bset best
ahh awesome. Well it is the most popular for a reason.
So I work revising parsing scripts currently. We use dynamoDB and python to handle database interactions on our project I've worked a little with that. But mainly revising code and making it more efficient currently
awesome stuff I totally have a mini CS crush on you
hahaha
you're doing everything I want to do
Yeah you wouldn't be saying that if you were a junior in the program I have much higher goals of where I want to be
I literally have had no experience prior to uni so I'm really trying to catch up hahah what are most juniors and seniors doing in the program?
yeah, that's a good mentality Honestly I'm not totally sure
I feel like I never see anyone that's in the 300s and above
I've got some friends interning for some companies my good friend actually got offered a full time job to quit school but decided against it. He is like wicked smart though like years ahead of everyone I know my goal is to have a decent job that I'm working my senior year that will just transition into a full time gig then once i've got experience I'll probably work for myself and start up a company I want to make sure I get relevant experience first though
oh wow that's amazing why didn't he take the job?? I probably would have taken it and returned to UNI later if I wanted to so in my limited understanding, the technical skillset required to be a "tech guy" in a startup is way less than people think right most of the geniuses are going towards phds and research, not enterprise
So he took one semester off and worked full time and then went back to school he was kind of on the fence
ah ok
There are some situations where it's good to just take the job but honestly a lot of the best jobs out there and a lot of the longterm jobs require Bachelors unless you just have exceptional work
I see so how was he recruited did they find his repos or something?
I don't know honestly
hmm
I'm not sure if he sought them out or they found him I'd have to ask He's very talented though Like coding in early middle school
yeah I'm just super curious because I just know that doing the program is NOT enough to get hired at a good place if anything they could care less about your grades and more about your projects and open source contributions
Yeah it's not you need some experience Just small jobs help a lot though being able to say you worked on projectss worked in teams can talk to others without looking like an idiot etc.
dang it. I mean...I'll get there
oh yeah, for sure I worked in customer care as a manager also did summer sales from there went into QA basically just data validation for a company then joined a startup, and finally am now doing application development and hopefully will get a new job sometime soon in frontend development Whether that be web or app development
wow you are seriously living the dream java or swift?
hahah, not in my opinion.  Not yet I'm more comfortable with java I haven't built swift apps since this past January But I could do either if needed
that's epic
Most people now a days use React so that they can publish on both android and ios
I'm trying to build instagram right now haha just copy the elements etc
oh that's really cool! Projects like that employers like to see
I literally feel like it's 90% cocoapods and 9% stackoverflow 1% me
hahaha yeah most of my projects are typically: 50% copied portions from other projects I like, 25% help from stack overflow, 15% other sources for help, 10% me
where does the 50 come from typically? git repos?
Yeah, i'll typically google the types of projects I'd like, then Ill preview them.  I'll sometimes inspect the actual application and pull portions I like or I'll track down their original files in github or somewhere
ooooh that's what I need to learn I think I have fear of a copypasta project
Currently my projects have all been web development so it's very easy to find stuff
because I'll have to make sure everything works and that the code looks like mine etc
yeah, you have to pull just tiny, tiny elements never large sections
that is great advice
When you start using large portions there are so many dependencies and stuff it gets super messy
right right
I would find like little feature you like and then try and replicate or incorporate those elements in your project
I still don't feel comfortable touching anything in the plist
hahaha You're just a freshman right?
which is bad, because I'm building everything without the storyboard well kind of
freshman in CS?
I finished half a year before a mission yeah lets put it that way
nice
I'm just starting year two
I switched majors to CS 2 years in to school so you are totally fine
even more things I need to hear!
Don't stress about being behind
this chit chat thing is a godsend
haha
chit chat more like personal therapy
yeah, i just wish there were more seniors who I could ask questions about electives with lol
yeah I'm not too stressed. I genuinely enjoy the labs and what I'm learning just can't shake the feeling that it's not enough I'm going to end up cookie cutter does the program get really slim towards the top?
nah
I don't see too many graduates in those photos that are hung on the walls
Companies love CS majors there are so many jobs out there Even if you suck, you'll probably still land a good job That's the beauty of a high demand market And if you place on the higher side then you really are going to rake it in. I have to go! But it was nice talking to you
okay!! I really appreciate all the advice man