How's your day going?
good, what about you?
Not bad, I should be doing homework right now hhhhh
nice haha, I always try to multitask while on ChitChat
Haha yeah, it's not that easy though I wish it would push notifications when the other person says something Like it does when someone is ready to chat
yeah, but that would get really annoying because even when you're on the screen it would have to send a push
Oh, maybe that's true It would be nice if it were an app
google isn't super easy to work with when dealing with push notifications
Like Whatsapp or something So you could use it outside of chrome Hey you wanna do some would you rather questions?
true, but being just a data gathering platform for a project they're working on it would just be more work than they already have hahaha
That's true
What major are you in school?
Considering that's all this is just for research the site is pretty well made anyways. I'm thinking cs But that could change What about you?
I'm a CS major
Oh nice. Also I've got a good slate of would you rather questions ready if you want to do some of them. What class are you taking right now? What cs class I mean
I'm in Web Development and CS 252
Oh cool! I really wanted to take web dev
Have you taken any CS classes yet
But I didn't want to pack my schedule too much Yeah I'm in 235 It's just starting to pick up The first few weeks were a lot of review
nice, yeah that will consume most of your time towards the end of the semester
Oh boy I can't wait What sort of stuff are you doing in web dev right now? That's like the one big cs area I want to brush up on I feel like I have a decent grasp of object oriented programming and everything
We have just been doing creativity projects. so basically we can build whatever we want following certain guidelines
But there's a lot to server-client interactions and web hosting and http requests that I don't really get That's really cool
You go over all of that stuff in 240 and further in 340
Any web dev project or a website specifically? Oh cool Like is a big emphasis of the class the css and html? Or is is about hosting?
web development is html and css 240 is building an app and learning how a server and client interact
Oh really? I didn't know that that's really good to know Web dev is 260 right?
yeah that's right
I work in app development and that's the hardest part Serverside stuff We use Google app engine right now which is nice because it does a lot for you
yeah, you'll get to make your own server in 240 who do you work for?
Buy it's still confusing if you don't have a background with it already Just a research group on campus
oh nice
Which is why it's confusing, because it means I'm one of the only app developers so a lot of the implementation of new features falls to me There's less specialization and I have to do a lot of new things every day But I enjoy it It's a good learning experience
that's good though.  It's good to be out of your comfort zone you'll learn a lot faster that way
Yes definitely Do you work in cs right now?
I do, I'm an application developer for a pricing analytics company
Oh cool! analytics...like domo?
We do pricing analytics for the company that manages all the big hospitals across the country
Wow cool! So is this web apps or mobile apps?
Its a web portal that we have them use.  But I work on the parsing service that reads manufacturer quotes
That's cool What language do you use mostly? Or do you jump around a lot for different parts of the project?
Python mainly
That's cool I need to do more with python
yeah, what languages have you worked with so far?
I started in python back in the beginning of highschool but I don't do a lot in it right now Mostly Java for work because we're doing Android development. But c++ for class of course
nice, you'll do purely java after 236
Oh really? Goody I'm way more comfortable in java
yeah, honestly I don't know which languages I prefer
The backend of our app is in python so I've done a little but the other guy I work with has done most of the python stuff
I like working with java more though I think
Yeah for me it's jsut because that's what I've used more And the little differences always get me between c++ and java
yeah most people have started working with python as that's the best way to work using Amazon Web Services
Yeah
And most people hav been moving everything to Amazons cloud services
We need to switch to AWS Our current model is unnecessarily expensive for what we're doing
Well a lot of the big fast growing companies use it and it's not super expensive Like Epic Games, the guys that make and maintain fortnite
We really only need a lambda function Oh yeah? That's cool I didn't know that
yeah, that's why youll notice that Epics "Server" locations are exactly the same as Amazons
Hahaha
No midwest servers haha
We tried to use AWS at first when we were getting the server set up But we didn't know what we were doing and ultimately Google App engine was easier to figure out
but i believe that should change soon.  Facebook just built a huge data center in Eagle Mountain and I wouldn't be suprised if Amazon is planning something similar soon
Oh yeah? That would be cool. I didn't know about that You know what's cool? Speaking of data centers
Yeah, basically google offered to give the city 4 million for infrastructure  in exchange for cheap land and big tax breaks What's that
Oh hmm Microsoft's underwater data center I don't know how effective it is but it looks way cool
oh yeah!  It's a really smart idea. It costs a lot of money to cool down everything in datacenters
Because 1. You get watercooling yup
so they're hoping that similar to nuclear plants they can save money with cooling
and 2. You get fish data protection Oh I didn't know that I bet regulations are a nightmare for that. Because it's such a high risk if there's leakage into the ocean from the plant
Well with nuclear reactors they will just have huge pools that they keep cool inside the buildings
Oh Oh that makes a ton more sense haha
they don't ever build them near big bodies of water.  Occasionally they'll put them near lakes though
Yeah That's good Anyways, I probably should go get working on that 235 lab that's due tonight It's been good chatting!
alright!  See you have fun with that project