u/exeter

...look to volunteer in the tech industry....

I've never heard of tech companies offering volunteer opportunities.

It doesn't matter what your degree is or when you got it if you've had professional success. Emphasize your success and don't mention you consider your degree to be "obsolete."

Okay, here's one I've been struggling with recently.

I'm an unemployed software engineer in the Bay area (yeah, I know, first world problems, right?), having a hard time getting hired. I know about the common advice to spend 80% of my time networking, and I've been going to meetups almost every day during the week to do this. But I also know I should be putting at least 30 hours a week into my search. How can I do this if people I want to network with are employed (hence working during the day)?

They're legitimate in the sense that there's a real company offering a real job, but you have to read it carefully. It's a sales job. It'll be commission only, high pressure work, and you won't make anywhere near the $10K their "top rep" made last month. That's because their top rep is a guy who's been working there 20 years and has tons of people who just call him personally when they want to buy a car.

Well... the key word in the sentence I partially quoted was "relevant." If I thought I'd get relevant job listings emailed directly to my inbox, I'd consider it. But, the odds of that happening seem slim.

I've tried it and had literally zero success with it.

Why not take the job in NC?

Yes, I do. I don't get any emails from recruiters through it.

Seriously!? I have 2 years experience. How do I get this problem ("Recruiters are bombarding me...")?

Mostly, "abelian" applies to groups and other gadgets that have a natural group structure, whereas "commutative" applies to any operation * where f * g = g * f. That is, "commutative" does not imply the existence of an identity element, inverse elements, or associativity.

An example of a commutative relation is the relation [; A ~ B ;] where A and B are people and [; A ~ B ;] iff A and B have been in the same room together.

... MS in physics with a concentration in optics....

Cool! Send me a PM sometime. No promises or anything, but I work for a company that likes to hire people with that kind of background. And, if we're not hiring an optics guy, I probably know at least 5 people who would know who is. I'd have no problem asking any of them to look at a CV, at least. :)

Anyway, it's actually not so much the terms themselves, but the fact that in at least a third of my work-related conversations with any of our optics guys, I end up needing to ask 3 or 4 seemingly silly questions before I can actually contribute. Now, I'm not afraid to ask those questions if necessary, but I'd rather start on a stronger foundation to begin with.

For example, before I started this job, I had no clue there was any such thing as "red testing" fiber optics. I also didn't know 1310nm light was so much less sensitive to bending loss than 1550nm light (or, hell, even what "bending loss" was, for that matter). I guess what I'm saying is I'm actually looking more to overcome general ignorance than to learn what any specific term means.

BTW, what math prereqs do I need for those two books?

You mean like this one?

Haskell only has single assignment. So, none of +=, -=, *=, or /= are meaningful in the same way they are in C-style languages.

It isn't so much that it isn't allowed as it's unusual. Sounds like a good deal for you. :-)

Did they ever say why they wouldn't have hired you had they known you did standup?

How did you get an internship after you graduated?

Michigan, currently, but I'm 100% open to relocation. In fact, I'd prefer it.

What is a code resume? I have a github account, but there's nothing there except an old school project.

You've got to be kidding. How is "total absence of social media profiles" a red flag at all?

I doubt that. The computer can implement strategies you can't simply because it's capable of much better micro than you are. That's why the Berkley Overmind could get away with always going mass mutas.

Here's the one I want to read:

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg09012004/grutz.jpg

I disagree. Interpreter-on-interpreter is a toy (a cool toy, but a toy nonetheless). See, for instance, http://eigenclass.org/hiki/lisp-in-lisp-and-prolog-and-ruby

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quine

Google is using base-10 logs and Python is using natural logs. To get the right result in Python, divide your answer by log (10) or supply the optional base argument to the log function.

It's not a GCC extension. It's called "token pasting", and it's a thoroughly standard thing.