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disarmingly forthright mscs advice [b646bb49]

Tags: articles, grad school

Read the man pages and check the return values!

  • Join ACM and IEEE, compete and practice good opsec.

  • Most code you read is broken, including:

    • open source stuff
    • industry code
    • textbook code
  • Bookmark, study, and seek out good code
  • Learn the entire toolchain, details don't need to memorized right away but should be understood
  • Learn a scripting language, functional language, and a data retrival language, and learn C & C++ well.
  • always be shaping the thesis
  • Don't be afraid to ask for clarification
  • Professors only sometimes have hazy ideas of what's happening