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El_indian wrote:Cool. What are you working on?

For work i'm making a simulator to help with testing. I'm also working with a few other people on other projects. By myself, i'm working on an app idea i have and i also have to make a website for one of my friends soon.



Have you graduated yet?

Nicee. Not quite. I just have to finish my project next semester. I plan to learn a few different languages over the break. 

What does your simulator do? What language?

Childish Logic wrote:Yeah i do El.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:For graduate positions group interviews are extremely common if not universal.  I had one interview in February where there was no group component, but it was for an internal position in my company at the time and they obviously didn't have much of a recruitment budget.

Must be a big thing in the UK then. Its not here.

Do you typically specialise for your careers in your degrees?

I know people who have group interviews when applying for graduate CA positions. It's probably more common than you think.

Zzonked wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

I wouldn't put much faith in that.  Most people wouldn't admit to their family members that they give great jobs to competent arseholes and destroy the dreams of nice guys.  People like to convince themselves they're doing good things. If your sister really turns away competent staff because they're ambitious arseholes she should be fired.

You think every interview results with the best candidate getting the job? You need to join the real world here, it is not like that. You're advocating the other side of the 'nice guy' approach. Maybe being too passive can cost you but you can easily be too aggressive too. There is a middle ground where you can be a normal human being and not a contestant on the apprentice.

According to RR, if one tries to be a nice guy and doesn't get drunk with colleagues, one will never amount to anything.

Glen Miller wrote:

Zzonked wrote:

You think every interview results with the best candidate getting the job? You need to join the real world here, it is not like that. You're advocating the other side of the 'nice guy' approach. Maybe being too passive can cost you but you can easily be too aggressive too. There is a middle ground where you can be a normal human being and not a contestant on the apprentice.

According to RR, if one tries to be a nice guy and doesn't get drunk with colleagues, one will never amount to anything.

That's a gross misrepresentation of my position. On the drinking thing, I find it a lot easier to trust people who are happy to get drunk in my company, people who don't are more likely to be hiding something, they've every chance of amounting to something though. In almost all situations one should try to be a nice guy, but there are exceptions to that - competitive scenarios where the people you're up against are trying to stop you achieving your life goals are among those exceptions.

El_indian wrote:Nicee. Not quite. I just have to finish my project next semester. I plan to learn a few different languages over the break. 

What does your simulator do? What language?

project? I though you were a business student.

I'm not sure how much detail i'm allowed to go into, but it runs weather patterns. Its python,html,css and depending on how the data accessing works, probably pick up a database language.

What languages are you going to learn?

El_indian wrote:I know people who have group interviews when applying for graduate CA positions. It's probably more common than you think.

Weird.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Childish Logic wrote:Yeah i do El.



Must be a big thing in the UK then. Its not here.

Do you typically specialise for your careers in your degrees?

some papers go into it a little bit but generally speaking no. We have to do 800 hours of practical work in our own degree to graduate though.

I know you can't talk about specifics, CL, but how much of python are you using - i.e, do you have to make use of numpy, scipy, and scikit learn?

Rei Andros wrote:I know you can't talk about specifics, CL, but how much of python are you using - i.e, do you have to make use of numpy, scipy, and scikit learn?

Its a lot of python, they wanted to make sure i knew python like the back of my hand, in terms of numpy, i'm unsure. I don't start work for another 2 weeks and they haven't filled me in on everything so i can focus on my exams but unless i use some sort of in house package, i should be using numpy at the least. No one wants to use python lists with such large data samples.


why do you ask?

Just curious. I've been using a lot of python over the past year or so.

FCB wrote:

I don't get it.

Zzonked wrote:

FCB wrote:

I don't get it.

Lil Jon flew all the way to Atlanta just to vote in the elections because his absentee ballot was never sent to him through mail.

Great PR.

Ooh, I thought the "GA NEVA" part was him misspelling Geneva.

zzzonked, rate this song /10

Is the forum still due to expire this month?

Rip in peace, gg Time to use a Twitter to stalk you guys.

vel wrote:zzzonked, rate this song /10

Maybe 7 or 8, I thought it was going to be worse when it started but i really liked it about 2 mins in.

I actually decided today I really quite like the grill that I will now refer to as 'house grill'. Spent all day with her looking for houses and had a great time. She wouldn't come back to mine afterwards though, but tbf we drove for at least 6 hours today so I think everyone was tired. Actually literally just as I typed this she apologised by text for saying she wouldn't stay at mine haha.

I apologize if no one gives a fuck about my personal diary. I will save it for the juicier stuff if no one actually cares about the boring stuff like this.

Keep posting. Makes me feel less bad for when I post personal nonsense.

The Zlatan wrote:Great PR.

Yeah, I love it when celebrities and hip-hop stars are politically active.

FCB wrote:

Saw this him on NPR showing off that he could sing well without the auto tune. Heard he's supposed to be really smart too.

vel wrote:zzzonked, rate this song /10

These guys are local legends around these parts. I guess it helps when of your bandmates dies though. Used to have all their stuff growing up.

Zzonked wrote:I actually decided today I really quite like the grill that I will now refer to as 'house grill'. Spent all day with her looking for houses and had a great time. She wouldn't come back to mine afterwards though, but tbf we drove for at least 6 hours today so I think everyone was tired. Actually literally just as I typed this she apologised by text for saying she wouldn't stay at mine haha.

I apologize if no one gives a fuck about my personal diary. I will save it for the juicier stuff if no one actually cares about the boring stuff like this.

Our little Zzonked is growing up. 

They are very popular with drug addicts on the East Coast.

Yeah, pothead love them.

Seen surprisingly few Sublime t-shirts in uni. You'd think they'd be all over the place in the Bay Area, but I saw more in high school.

Maybe it's a rivalry thing? I usually don't fuck with anything from the Bay. Although to be fair I'm not exposed to much of anything from the Bay anyways. 

Currently in a bidding war. Trying to win myself 600 nerf darts.

Loved "Welcome To The Party" from that Bambu album, Che.

Guy made a fps just with css.

http://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/