I'm finishing my degree in the year 2024, I'm actually class of 2025, but I think I rat-raced enough in HS with AP tests that I can probably graduate in 3 instead of 4 years. Are internships mostly for graduating students? I thought they were everyone above 1st year.
Should I just look for junior-dev jobs to do while in uni instead?
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to respond. I really do appreciate the advice.
I honestly have no clue what to write for a cover letter. Everything that I write just ends up sounding fake / makes it obvious that I just want a job for money's sake (which for me, at the end of the day, is what it comes down to).
I actually received the opposite advice from some others I asked, where they said to just use the shotgun approach and send as many applications as I can. I'm struggling to understand what order of magnitude of openings to apply to, should it be tens? hundreds?
A major gripe I have about this is the selective enforcement of this "positive bias" based on what seems to be favoritism towards Western sentiments and the ensuing under correction of errors.
To give an extreme example, these two comments in different threads are basically the same in terms of sentiment, prose and effect, however, one criticizes the CCP for their genocide of Uighurs, and the other criticizes the Queen. The difference here is one comment is at the top of the discussion while the other got the user banned.[0][1]
The "likeliest explanation" of ignorance for [0] here doesn't hold since moderation has posted comments on the topic and again, it's the top comment of an extremely popular thread.
Here are some more examples of popular but off-topic for HN comments against Putin and Cloudflare respectively.
Dang, a million kudos to you for curating the site, but this topic has been an absolute train-wreck and I hope you can at least take it off the front page.
She was a symbol of an institution that has brought perhaps the most harm out of any institution in our time. She was also the leader and sovereign of the UK while they engaged in atrocities against Malaysia and much of the rest of Asia and as GP points out Africa. She is not just "some women" and it is a position of privilege to see her as such.
The ones that aren't there, are not there! I can link you to some that aren't, but they show up as [flagged] and don't do a good job of illustrating my point[0].
The best thing to do is to be frustrated. And I mean it! The first few days of learning any new framework/language/system is to either slog through hours of tutorials and books with only tangential relevance to the task you want to accomplish, or to dive in head first and learn through a faster version of the genetic algorithm. The main loop looks something like this:
Want to do something -> try to do it (through google) -> doesn't work -> read exception -> search exception / stackoverflow -> try fix exception -> probably doesn't work -> eventually find error and underlying cause -> repeat.
As you learn more about the framework and language, the time to complete this loop becomes smaller and you learn more efficiently. However everyone goes through the initial slogging steps of being frustrated and unable to figure things out.
As a long time lurker and infrequent poster, I am positively revolted by moderation's handling of this topic. Under the guise of "disallowing flamebait" HN's moderation team has systematically driven out anyone expressing negative opinions of an individual. At the start of this topic, there was a diversity of viewpoints[0] but now there is only trite, non-intellectually gratifying comments praising the queen or expressing their despair at her death (which is a weird sentiment for someone most have never met).
As a second-generation immigrant from an Asian country, I have to admit that I was ecstatic at hearing the news. For someone who's family was poor to the point of drinking rotting bone stew and foraging grass partly due to the queen refusing to decolonize until Britian lacked the military might to do so, the only reaction anyone in my close circle could have is positive. This is juxtaposed with the prevailing sentiment here where it's socially unacceptable to celebrate her death. I wonder if all the moralist harping about how one should never celebrate a person's death felt about Stalin, or how they would react to the death of Carmen Ortiz or Vladimir Putin.
I really enjoy my time lurking here in this small corner of the internet and I hope that the moderators here step it up and either 1. ban politically divisive topics or 2. moderate away both trite positive and negative comments.
I originally also thought about doing this (sort of) by hand, but once you realize that the possibility space is too large, programming it really helps you see what kinda pairs you are actually eliminating.
You can actually WLOG away all pairs where the second element is larger than the first.
Also, the most common kind of pair I eliminated was actually due to the size constraint (ie, 98 * 99) or pairs of (1, prime) which I didn't actually realize would be a thing until I coded it up.
Cutest problem I've ever seen. If anyone still doesn't understand, it basically comes down to removing "unique" products and sum from the possibility space.