I proposed to use SO Teams and it was generally positively received, however, it was questioned why we want to add yet another platform when we already have Jira and confluence and other stuff.
I just had the ping sound on with full volume. That almost killed me right there.
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2:31 PM
From what I've understood the main program for comp sci students here is just called "Computer, Communication and Information Sciences" so ultra generic, and you can just kind of choose courses you are interested in I think... so I'm not sure what I want to focus on yet :D
@Tyyppi_77 Ah, well that's not completely like that here. Depending on if you want to go to the PhD after or not. If you do, it's about 1 semester of classes and 3 semesters of thesis, if you don't it's 3 semesters of classes and one semester of thesis (something like that) (sorry for the double ping)
(and I have not been able to complete my thesis, so I'm not a master)
Some specific programs here have so called 'core classes' though.
And in my own program there were requirements on how many credits come from regular classes, seminar classes and thesis work.
Beyond that which classes you took was guided by your advisor & maybe recommendations by other mentors/faculty.
Do you have comprehensive / qualifying exams for master's / PhD?
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When applying to uni after high school pretty much every program grants you the study-right to both a bachelor's and the corresponding master's programs at the same time
Things very here with comps/quals. For CS & math at least, they cover the core classes & you need to meet a certain threshold. In my program if you cleared the exam at the PhD level during your master's, then you didn't need to repeat it for your PhD. Sort of an incentive to stick around for the next level (though I didn't discover this until after the fact).
But from what I recall a friend telling me, it sounded like in her math program if you passed well enough, you could get a PhD, whereas if you passed ok you were limited to a master's, & I guess in both cases the coursework was more or less they same?
There's a good chance that I didn't totally understand though & it was sort of a contentious issue, so I didn't ask about the details.
My main take away was that different uni's here have different policies.
Like for some programs, students don't consider enrolling unless the program has up front financial support for them - it's up to the programs to compete for the students. But in other places/programs, the opposite is true. And in some places, it a mix of both ends competing.
What does it do? I didn't see an option to figure that out that didn't involve video. I have an educated guess, but I think it's odd that they don't have an elevator pitch statement prominently featured on the landing page.
If it's basically a private SE Q&A site, I could see benefit to that. I often get questions like "what's the debug command to do X?" or "what level is Y supposed to be?" or "where can I find currency Z?", and all of those are documented somewhere in Confluence, but finding the one sentence that answers that question inside a multi-scroll-page document is slower than just typing the question into the designer chat (or into the search box of an SE site).
To get the "largest" AABB a "rotatable" box could occupy, given that the box is defined as "centered" at the origin, I need to get the distance between the center and one of any of its corners, right?
That distance will be preserved by rotation. So if any point ends up farther than that distance from the origin after a rotation, it must have started from a greater distance too.
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Honestly I don't know how leads do it. My lead has asked me if I'd be interested in taking on more leadership and I just stared like deer in the headlights.
Leadership is fine if your devs listen and you have enough control for delegating.
Otherwise you're just a Senior picking up the slack for the lack of manhours on the table and all the responsibility that comes with it from a Lead position.