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  1. GoldyOrNugget

    More jobs in web development or software development?

    To be successful in your career, you need to be flexible and have a broad set of skills - the sort you get with a CS degree :) If you do only on mobile dev or only on web dev, you're limiting your success. It's totally OK to focus more on one than the other though. There are more jobs in web dev...
  2. GoldyOrNugget

    More jobs in web development or software development?

    If you want to work in data science you should get at least a masters if not a PhD in a field like machine learning. What exactly do you mean by 'web dev' and how is it different to software dev? Most people would consider web dev to be a subdiscipline of software dev.
  3. GoldyOrNugget

    Anyone gotten an atar of 99+ without tutoring?

    99.9 here without tutoring, friend got 99.95 also without tutoring. Work on understanding rather than memorising, but memorise when necessary/faster. This is what is meant by study smart not hard. Do questions that are at a much harder level than the HSC, because that way HSC questions seem...
  4. GoldyOrNugget

    Extracurricular Elementary Mathematics Marathon

    Trivial for n=1. Suppose the property holds for 1..n-1. For general n, if their sum is divisible by n, then their sum mod n is 0. Take all elements mod n. If all elements mod n are 0, pick any subset. Otherwise, pick out an element x mod N which is nonzero mod n. 0 <= x < n. Of the...
  5. GoldyOrNugget

    Interesting mathematical statements

    You're an IMO guy/girl aren't you?
  6. GoldyOrNugget

    Interesting mathematical statements

    I don't think this statement is quite true. Specifically, the "input comprising itself" bit - I don't know of a proof that shows that this is the case. If you're alluding to the diagonalisation argument, the result is slightly more complex. Suppose that A is a Turing machine that given any...
  7. GoldyOrNugget

    Recommended Studies for Computer Science

    First year at UNSW is C, not Objective-C. I don't know of any university which would teach Objective-C as a first-year subject. It's a relatively niche language.
  8. GoldyOrNugget

    What language did you learn first?

    I'm a professional C++, Java, and Python developer. Python is probably the friendliest beginner's language. It's the one I started with and I can't imagine starting with anything else. The biggest problem with Python as a first language is that Python is too easy -- it hides what's happening...
  9. GoldyOrNugget

    If you ski/snowboard, please take my D&T survey!

    These exist, they're called step-in bindings.
  10. GoldyOrNugget

    First day on a software engineering job -- what to expect?

    2-3 months of casual learning probably isn't enough to get you work experience. Most tech companies won't even hire students after first year for internships because one year of study isn't generally enough to be productive in a company. Learning a programming language won't teach you to be a...
  11. GoldyOrNugget

    Computer Science and Software Engineering Jobs?

    This is really wrong. Ignore all of it. The vast majority of computer scientist graduates go on to become software developers/engineers. Some become researchers, data scientists, test engineers, product managers, etc. "Quality control technician" would not be a suitable position for a CS...
  12. GoldyOrNugget

    Actuarial studies vs engineering

    Google and Microsoft internship programmes are highly competitive and 'chances' don't really come into it. If you're smart, you're a great engineer, and you interview well, you'll probably get an internship. If any of these things aren't true, you won't. Microsoft and Google are both close to...
  13. GoldyOrNugget

    Stats Question

    This is such a bad question... I'd probably say probably unbiased because I'm guessing the question-setters aren't expecting you to read too deeply into the motivations of the librarians. I think they want you to decide if the experimental setup is fundamentally unbiased, which it's not. I think...
  14. GoldyOrNugget

    Computer Science undergrand in NSW -- UNSW or USYD?

    This is misleading at best and incorrect at worst. UNSW, USyd and ANU are all FAR better than UTS at computer science. Ask any student, or look at the ATAR cutoffs, or which companies the graduates of each university go to. They are equally ranked in the "101-150" category in the 2014...
  15. GoldyOrNugget

    Javascript Image Help

    We can't help you unless you post your code buddy. It's like asking "what's wrong with my working out for this maths question" without posting your working out. Stop asking until you post your code, or at least a relevant sample of it.
  16. GoldyOrNugget

    EBNF????

    I did SDD. Railroad diagrams and EBNF don't describe data structures, they describe languages (sets of strings). EBNF can't be used to define a for loop or define a while loop. It's used to define the syntax for these constructs. Like, you might describe the syntax for a while loop as while =...
  17. GoldyOrNugget

    Javascript Image Help

    He was just trolling. You have to post all your code (or at least a sizeable chunk). we can't debug from a screenshot of two lines.
  18. GoldyOrNugget

    UNIBALL JETSTREAM: 1.0mm vs 0.7mm

    The Uniball Jetstream 0.7mm (specifically, the lidded one) is a thing of beauty. It's perfectly weighted, writes beautifully, and rarely smudges. In my HSC year I would order them off eBay in bulk. Best pen in the universe: http://www.penreview.com/files/penreview_images/uniball-jetstream.jpg
  19. GoldyOrNugget

    Logic Puzzle!

    Almost! 19 and 20 should be switched around.
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