Would be fairly common in the Seattle area actually. You couldn't survive on the low pay that Noodle is indicating. I didn't realize it was that low. Personally, if it was the Seattle area, some sort of testing position as a contractor should be pretty easy to find and they pay a lot more than $15 an hour. Given the pay is so low I think the MS program is a better choice.

It takes me around 7-8 mins to drive to my job. Some days I'll drive my wife to work first which adds 20 mins and that feels tolerable. But I can't fathom having to commute 4 hours every day. It would crush my soul.

I only go into the office when the maids are coming.

My commute is about 50 minutes and when I drive it's kind of hell. I WFH on average 2 days a week and on those days I feel like I have so much free time i almost don't know what to do.

I bike to work most of the times I actually go into the office - that's more like 90 minutes but i was going to ride 3 hours that day anyway so I really saved myself 1:40.

I have a theory that a big chunk of the people who do this don't want to be in their house anyway. Work and car is their sanctuary.

With a 2 hour drive I would just do the masters while applying for jobs.

think i'll do the masters, take the job just to see how it goes/get that first job jitters thing out of the way, and look for work closer to home.

appreciate all the input guys!

also:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/1...-take-the-gold

USA#28!

This is based off of clicking 'run code' and if it there are errors? Or is it based off of 'accepted answers' for efficiency?

Fwiw I usually click run code about 500 times just to see what it returns as I go.

Obviously my personal opinion follows here and I'm not an expert on the educational system of the USA or others as a whole. My opinion and comments are meant to apply mostly to the USA education system through grade 12 and are based on my experience in the system and conversations with various members of the K-12 school system.

Idk how the Chinese educational system is structured but in America it seems a lot of the curriculum is not geared towards achieving excellence but making sure we teach to the lowest common denominator so that 'no one is left behind.'

It's sort of weird because it puts the onus on the students/parents to then have the student try to achieve beyond the standards they place in front of them instead of having the system try and push each individual to achieve beyond his or her limits.

Thumbing through a book tonight to catch up on the language I'll be using at work, realized I didn't even know it had pass by reference as an option.

I'm totally screwed and this is not going to go well. Will lead to fun stories I'm sure though.

What was interview process like?

How did you even find that job noodle?

Absolutely not true, you'll see.

What is the language?

they almost certainly expect you to know nothing. that you even understand pass by reference will be a surprise to your coworkers. hell, some of them proly wont even understand that.

Visual Basic?

Nope

Basically what this guy said. Hooray for low expectations!

Well, they said they want someone with some exposure to a programming language. They let you pick whatever language you wanted for the interview. It was mostly a test of if you could type, could you type something that vaguely resembles code, and do have an attention span longer than Donald trump and can remember the three things they told you after they left the room.

Fair enough. ^_^

Let's just say I'm gonna be seeing a lot of dollar signs in my future, and it ain't from the high pay.

PHP?

Edit: PHP is a perfectly reasonable modern language at this point btw - this isn't the 90's any more and the differences between most mainstream languages are fairly minor.

PHP is fine other than being completely inferior to every other possible choice in every way. Like, there's nothing broken about it (anymore). It's just not very good. I think "perfectly reasonable" is a step too far btw, "perfectly acceptable" would work. There is nothing "reasonable" about how PHP is designed. I have written a website in PHP before btw, so I'm not commenting from ignorance.

Its an internship bro, PHP is perfectly fine to get some experience with and will translate just fine to other languages

Oh sure. Take the job. It's not a problem. I would work in PHP with appropriate inducements. It's possible to write good software in PHP. Like I said, PHP is not broken, it's an acceptable modern language. It's just best seen as a penance to suffer through in an internship. It's a means to an end. That's PHP in a nutshell.

PJ pretty spot on. It's basically an internship, and if y'all think the experience will translate I'll definitely take your word for it.

Also, Chris's jpg made me lol

Yep, experience will translate. Just at all costs avoid going down the path of becoming a PHP expert.