Hello?
Hello
Oh, hi! A real person.
I was typing when you ended that chat haha
Ohhhh, sorry. I'm impatient in that regard.
At least you didn't have to wait 2 hours earlier!
That's true! My record is four thus far.
It's been crazy since it's a saturday and it's conference weekend
No kidding.
What did you think of the big announcement?
The whole two-hour church block thing? I was really surprised. I knew there were rumors floating around, but there are always rumors. This was the first time it was CONFIRMED.
I had heard the rumors but wasn't sure too
You know what else I hear?
I'm pretty excited honestly More about the new curriculum than anything.
There are some missionaries who got their calls that said they would be announced in conference. Yeah, me, too. It looks good.
They do a really good job with the new curriculums they introduce.
I can't wait to study it. I'll be honest, I could've been more diligent in the past. You sound well acquainted.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal with that missionary thing is.
Have you heard that, too?
Maybe they'll make some supplemental announcements tomorrow about that.
I hope so. It sounds really interesting We might open up to China! I mean, that'd be surprising.
I think that they just weren't sure yet where they should put them so they told them to wait till conference weekend.
Is that something people do? I've never heard of that happening. Mission calls haven't been announced in conference since the early 1900's.
I don't think that will happen quite yet.  But, they might introduce more missionaries to india possibly given the temple going in there.
Oh, right! That's smart.
They've had lots of Visa issues these past few years there though
Would that affect their call in conference, then? I mean, it's just a little unorthodox, you know? Calling in conference?
But I wouldn't be suprised if they open up a country we've never been to yet.
I'd be downright anxious if they announced plans for the Missouri temple.
I don't think they'd call them by name, but to avoid them spreading the word they would hold off telling them the country they're going to. I'm really pumped to hear conference tomorrow.
Me, too.
What have you been up to today?
It's going to be amazing. Me? Well, not a whole lot.
It's just been conference and football for me
Aside from conference, that is. Football? Was that going on today?
Question, are you a CS major?
I am, I am! In the flesh.
I was watching other teams play.
Ah, I see.
What year are you in school?
Just a sophomore.
I've got a question and  maybe I can bounce it off you.
I'd love to answer!
Are you familiar with html
A bit. Haven't been fluent in about three years. Or . . . more like five, come to think of it.
okay, so I've got a button with the href="mailto: insertmyemailhere" however, when I try to test it, it doesn't open up a mail window like it should.  I can't tell if it's something with my computer, or chrome or what
My HTML knowledge is really fuzzy.
But it's written properly and it just doesn't seem to work for me.
Do you know if spaces are a big deal?
No problem.
There's a chance you have a space between your email and the "mailto" part?
It's not no.
Hmm. Sorry, I couldn't tell you otherwise, then.
I try to use other people's examples of ones that should work and it still doesn't work for me.
Oh, really? Do they work on other platforms? Or their own computers?
I just can't figure out what settings I need to change on my mac to make it work.
Oh, you're an APPLE user. Figures.
It should open up anyone's default mail.
(I'm kidding about the above, by the way.)
haha, I do a lot of app development and Macs are the best for that.
Oh, wait, are they really?
oh no, I know lots of people who prefer linux or windows I get it
They're just so expensive, you know? Several thousand for a new one. You know the kind of PC I can get for that price?
yeah, it's definitely an investment
Worth it, do you think?
I think so yeah.
I mean, hey, if you enjoy it, you do you. I don't really have anything against macs. My dad uses them.
They're pretty reliable. Mine is a 2014 model and I use it A LOT.
I'm glad!
Like constantly doing development work, playing games, streaming, etc.
If it serves you well, then there's little to complain. It's still performing well despite being four years old?
yeah, I just can't figure out what settings need changing so that this feature of a site I'm working on works.
(Okay, I'm about to try something. If this exits the chat, it's an accident, and I'ma hop right back on.) (Nope, we seem fine.) (Carry on.) Oh, yeah, that seems strange. And nothing's helping?
The dumb thing is, I have a complex form on the same site that has no issue sending emails to someone for me, but this simple thing won't work ahhaa. That's just development for you.  The big things are easy but the little things bug the crap out of you.
Have you asked the omniscient StackExchange? You cannot be the first person to have this problem.
I haven't
Flat out impossible.
I'm not, but the solutions people pose on stackExchange don't help at all. They're very old answers and chrome has changed lots since then
That's tough. No one from class has answers? And which class, by the way? I didn't know HTML was something we touched.
I'll probably test it out on a lab computer using linux on Monday I think Oh no this isn't for class. Personal project.
Ooooh! Even better! What're you doing?
And you will do html in 260 if you haven't taken that yet.
I haven't. Makes sense. But go on, go on. The website!
I have had the same portfolio for about 3 years so I've been updating the entire thing this past week. Making it way more user friendly and visually appealing.
Could you possibly link it? I'm curious. I don't want to ruin their text data, though.
Ehhhh, probably not too much personal data for chit-chat challenge.
Right, right. No worries, then.
I think their bot uses a lot of the phrases and stuff we type so I don't want that out there anyways haha
Haha, could you imagine that! Eve is suddenly spewing your website everywhere. And the developers are all, "Why is she speaking like that?"
That would be awesome hahaha Free advertising!
And they respond, "I don't know! We just took data from the top talkers!" Right? Ain't no such thing as bad PR.
So are you pre or post mission ?
Pre mission. Hence why I'm not in class. . . . which I'm realizing you didn't know.
Nice, do you intend on going sometime soon?
I do! I've already received my call. I leave to Argentina in February.
Nice!  Where to? oh yes!  I think we spoke of this in a different class the other day.
Preemptive response for the win.
different chat*
I think so! Yeah, I gotcha. I was wondering if you were the same person.
Yeah, chitchatter23!
Unfortunately, your user name can be, um, easily mistaken for others. But it's okay! I still remember you. I was knocked off my glorious pedestal of first place. So I'm fighting for it back.
yeah, I tried to make it as completely anonymous as possible.
Take that, number 0! That's good. Less personal information.
haha, how did you do last round?
Last round? Didn't play. I don't know why.
oh okay.
I think lack of motivation or something. But! Last last round, I won headphones.
I'm really curious when they will send the email about scoring for this round.
Me, too.
like in the Spring?
Are you shooting for the top? Yeah, in the spring. Was it spring? I thought it was Winter.
So they give out 4 Ipad pros.  I'm hoping the top scorer wins them each round because you can't win more than once.  So if i just stay in the top 3 each round, eventually I will win noe. one. But they are super vague about scoring and haven't sent that email they said would come promptly
That's assuming the top chatters stay chatting. Well, I can tell you my experience with winning.
true, but even then.  I don't think there are enough motivated people to dominate the chat each round.
It's pretty concrete. If you're first in the leaderboard, you're first to get the prize.
Shouldn't be too hard to stay near the top
That's what I'm thinking. So does that mean I'm competing with you? That's unfortunate. I rather like you.
The FAQ page just makes it seem like it's a raffle rather than first place gets it. That's why I'm awaiting this email that will never come haha. possibly, we will see
It's unclear, yeah. I'm not sure if that's intentional. The MacBook for sure is raffled. The other prizes just go to the top scorers.
I'm really annoyed though because there are some freshmen on this chat challenge that have way to much free time so they just dominate the rankings. So the macbook raffle they only gave each person over 300 k one raffle ticket each last round.
Yes.
They said they may change how they do that this round though.
So you were probably in there.
Like award tickets based on scores.
I think the only thing that's changing is the raffle score limit. But I wouldn't know.
Maybe I'm thinking they'll probably ramp it up to like 500 k 300 k is like just an hour of chatting total.
And if they do, it'll be great. You could really see the scores plateau at 300k.
That is, chatting non stop and writting a lot.
Right, right. I think my longest conversation was something close to three hours?
Well last round they had people score right up to 300 k and then just bail
We were on and off, of course, but it won be about 800,000.
Oh wow.
Yeah, I saw those people. But what do you do?
mine is only like an hour.
When you know you have no shot at winning, why chat more? Really, only an hour? Why not longer?
I had a conversation with myself for about 20 minutes once haha
Wait, really? That's kinda annoying. Sorry about that.
I just get sick of talking about the same things for a long time with the same person typically. I typically just chat for like 1 hour, take a break, and then start chatting again.
See, with me, I usually got invested in the conversation that I had to stop because it was getting really late. Or the other person had accidentally pushed off homework for hours.
Yeah
And then I'll be like, "Sorry! I didn't mean to!" I mean, dude, I have so much free time. It's bad.
So you aren't in school right now?
Not right now, no.
What do you do all day? are you working at all?
Good question! A little bit of work. Not a ton. Maybe 15 hours a week if I'm lucky. But it's closer to 10.
Oh wow
I don't really know what I'm doing with my life right now.
I would go crazy if i didn't have things to do all day.
Amen. I don't know what to do. I want to be productive, but I have nothing to channel my energy into.
Do you play fortnite or any game like that You should start playing StarCraft II
Even stranger, no, I don't. I used to. StarCraft II?
yes
Buddy, I still play the first.
that will use your time productively
Man, I used to be a huge gamer. I'm not any more. I don't know what happened. I still enjoy a casual round every once in a while, but it's nothing like I used to be. Do you grow out of gaming? Is that a thing?
You should get on hackerRank or other sites like that and just code all day Just depends what your priorities are.
That's essentially what I'm doing but here on chitchat. I don't even know what my priorities are . . .
I like to play games in my free time, but try to do CS related things when I can like mess around building websites, apps, etc.
That's so good!
or do some code challenges on HackerRank
What is that, by the way? Is it like leetcode but different?
It's a website where they basically say, write a function that does the following... and then it'll check your work to see if it works properly it's nice practice you can choose which language you like to work with.
That sounds interesting.
I use juse javascript as it's pretty relatable to everything else. just.
Oh, I've seen this! You've solved a lot of challenges, then?
yeah! It's nice practice
I might join it soon.
they introduce you to lots of common problems
I'm currently going through leetcode stuff, but I'll tackle that afterwwards. Oh, really? Like what? (Ignore my typos.)
just simple algorithms, like write a function that takes a number and sees if there are 3 numbers in the pythagorean theorem that the sum of which equals the number they give you just some interesting unique functions.
That'd be pretty easy, right?
They can be difficult sometimes, but they literally have thousands of them. Eh... it can be just kind of depends your skill level. and how good you understand math and simple logic.
Well, I write in C++ since that's the only thing I'm fluent in, so I'd imagine it'd be taking an array of three numbers, seeing which is the highest, then doing math.
It's very good though for preparing for coding interviews
I see. Have you been to a lot of interviews? Are they intimidating?
because in interviews they'll ask you to design a function that does certain things typically and watch you work.
Any internships?
not really no but gearing up for several soon
Oooh. Which companies?
Well I interviewed with the church last week. Hoping to get interviews with some other companies in the coming month too
Really? I hear they're really strict. That was from the STEM fair, yeah?
I didn't get that impression talking with them
Huh. I must've heard wrong. You'd know better. All I got was word of mouth.
They were at the Stem fair yeah. But they weren't really interested talking with people there.  They get so many people that they just direct you to how to sign up for interviews and that's where they talk with you and determine your skill level.
I didn't get that at all. I talked to a lot. Had some meaningful conversations. Granted, I just finished freshman year, so that played a factor. No internships, though I could've landed one if I were trying.
Yeah, they typically look for Sophomore/Juniors who have have done projects or worked in the CS field for at least a little bit.
Which year are you again? Junior?
yeah
And I'm assuming you're back from your mission.
Yes I am
Do you intend to go to graduate school?
nope
Or, just, what do you plan to do with your life?
Just staright into the workforce
Where do you wanna work? Google? I hear they have great spots there. Or, like, Adobe?
I'd like to just work fulltime for a few years and get some experience and then hopefully start up my own company down the road.
Microsoft?
Or at least freelance for a while
That's good! My dad did that.
I'd like to just work in the Valley for now until we decide where we'd like to go live.
"We'd"? Are you married?
Yeah ahha
Well, um, congratulations!
haha thanks
You're talking to a girl who's never dated.
I've actually been married for 2 years
Beyond casually, I mean. Wait, what? Two YEARS?
yeah haha
You found a girl real quick. How'd that happen?
I switched majors 2 years in to school ahhaa BYU has me down as a senior haha
Wait, really?
mhm
I'm sure that comes in handy for classes.
took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do yeah, it's nice being a little older than others
How old are you actually? Is that too personal? Is that allowed?
I will never say
Hmmm. Well, I don't think you're a girl.
not sure, but I prefer not to say if I'm unsure
That's fair.
nope
Hehe, on a semi related topic, I've noticed that I have a little under double the turns first place has, and he has more points than I do. I suppose that means I need to make my replies really long now, pretend like I'm writing an essay. Artificially bump up the numbers, you know? Make me sound smart.
I think that he just has a lot longer messages
I'm going to get out-chatted because I can't type at Asian-level speeds.
haha, if you just get really engaged in a conversation and make your messages longer it helps out a lot with your scores.
I'm not actually worried. I've determined I'm going to win this, so I'm going to win this. There really isn't anything beyond that.
Nice!
I wanted to win the headphones, so I got the headphones. I love those headphones, if you couldn't tell.
hahah yeah obviously!
Hehe, they're lovely.
What kind of headphones are they? Bose? Sony? Beats?
Have you heard of Bose--yeah. Just good ol' noise cancelling headphones.
nice!  I have some Sony headphones that I really like
Are they noise cancelling, too?
mhm
I love that. Problem is, I'd never spend the money to buy wicked awesome headphones.
Do you know if they're doing any other prizes besides the ones they currently have?
Not that I'm aware. I only know of the iPads and MacBook this time around.
yeah
Unless they have secret truffles, which I find unlikely.
I'm hoping they also dish out some smaller prizes too
That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Because you're cashing in a lot of hard time here. Time you could be spending on homework or, I dunno, gaming.
yeah, well I just chat as I do homework typically
I'd usually chat as I did something, but as I'm currently not in school, there isn't much to do. It's really bad, actually. I have the hardest time being productive when I'm not required to be. I wish I could change. I've been trying, but I haven't been super successful.
you should seriously try and pick up as much code as you can That was the one thing I regret not doing pre mission
I suppose I have five months. That's enough, right?
It would've helped so much
Won't I forget it all, though?
hahah
And what do you mean it would've helped?
Maybe, but the concepts will stick with you
Like, in what regards?
Like how to use loops and logic and stuff
I see, I see.
you may forget syntax of things, but overall you'll retain a lot
How fast at you at coding do you think? Do you consider yourself on par with your class, faster, slower? *are
Probably on par or a little faster than those in my classes but speed isn't as important as knowing how to design your programs.
Not at coding competitions. . . . well, okay, no, it's still pretty important.
haha
The whole "designing programs" bit. Have you been to any?
yeah, but both are important no I haven't
Agreed, agreed. ! They're really fun
I've considered it, but just haven't had the time
You should try them. Oh, right, you have classes and homework and such.
I've looked in to going to HackTheU
That sounds interesting.
well that and a life outside of school too and a family hahaha
What've you heard? Oh, right! You're married. Do you have kids?
No we don't
Do you want to? Are you waiting till after you graduate or . . . ? Just content with your lives as they are right now?
so my wife is going back to school soon. PA school, so that complicates things a little no idea, short anser
PA school?
answer Physicians Assistant school
Ah. I was going to guess presidential academy. But Physicians Assistant is cool, too.
so that's like 2 years of overtime work non stop
Oof. That's rough. Does she enjoy it?
yeah!  She's working in healthcare now and enjoys it just gearing up for school
(I've once again descended to where my average word typing thing is super small.) When does she go back exactly? Next semester?
I wouldn't worry much about your word count just have lots of conversations and you'll be good to go probably in like May
Hehe, okay, I'll take your advice.
it's a masters program
Oh, wow. Those are hard. Does that mean you'll have to get a job in the mean time?
so Doctor would be like a PHD and PA would be a Masters
Or will you both be doing school simultaneously? Does she want to go the full PhD?
I'll finish school like 1 year in to her schooling and then start working full time no, she just wants to do PA not doctor i'm just using that as a comparison
I see. Marriage sounds like an interesting phase of life.
Even though technically that's also accurate
Well, that's medical doctor.
oh yeah!  Always something new going on!
And that's a little different. Is it better than dating life? Because I've heard horror stories from dating.
Oh yeah! because it's literally your best friend all the time way better than all the creepo's you'll date casually
I have a lot of close guy friends, though, and I wonder how that'll affect things. I don't want to up and abandon all my friends.
oh you won
They're all really good people, and I'm close to them.
won't unless you want to haha Typically you'll stay close to your friends I've stayed close with my bestfriend after being married despite him having no date life whatsoever
But my close friends are all guys. And I'm a girl.
Just kind of depends if your friends are cool staying friends with you after you're married haha oh yeah, you probably won't stay close to a lot of them.
What I mean is, I'm worried I won't be allowed to stay--yeah. Why is that?
Most guys are only friends with girls because they like them on some level
Does marriage just get in the way? Hahahhaa, that can't be true.
no, it's just awkward though to some people they think you can't relate with them.
I'm almost confident that my guy friends don't like me as more than a friend.
Just depends on the poeple though people
That's so odd.
hahah you never know
Pffft! Okay, two of them liked me.
honestly i prefer just hanging out with my wife all day instead of other people
But I had about seven close guy friends at the time. And that's good for you, I think. Or I'd hope, at any rate.
Well that seems to be far off for you anyways so I wouldn't worry about it. I say that because of your mission not being mean haha
Hehe, don't worry, I didn't take it badly. I think I'm a bit strange in that I don't like physical attraction. I like having close friends, and I think my best friends are cool with that.
yeah, that's good thouhg
But the whole "having a crush" on a guy is more uncomfortable than anything else.
because honestly that should be one of the main reasons you marry someone
Because of physical attraction?
no, the opposite
Because you're NOT attracted to them?
because you connect well about everything
Oh.
being attracted is a bonus that you should also have I've got to go!  Nice talking to you!