People seem to like the Blue Snowball/snowflake. I like the Blue Yeti well enough, and I've thought about getting one of the cheaper mics to have something more portable.
I'm in the market for a new smartphone, somewhere in the $100 dollar range, maybe a little more. I'm looking for Android, 4" (4.5" is fine), and probably no physical keyboard or anything, just the screen. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Which was way less than I thought I'd spend, but it's got LOTS of glowing reviews.
I'm a complete novice, but the sound from this mic (recording vocals) is CRYSTAL clear and noise free, and I'm recording just a few feet away from a 75 gallon fish tank with sump that is constantly circulated with a 1200GPH pump, plus wavemakers, and a skimmer (also loud). The microphone filters ALL of that out and the vocals sound entirely true to life. I'm super pleased with what I got for what I spent.
Audio Technica makes good kit, but it's not actually filtering the sounds out; that's just the effect of the cardioid pattern of the mic. Cardioid mics are directional to varying degrees (from cardioid to hyper-cardioid).
Still, That's good mic and you got a good price on it.
Dumb school making me do career interviews again. Can a software developer help out?
CAREER FIELD: JOB TITLE: NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED:
1. How long have you been in this career? 2. What post-secondary training did you need to qualify for this position? 3. How long did it take to complete? 4. Was there additional training required for this specific position? 5. Which high school courses helped prepare you for this pathway? 6. Did you know you wanted to follow this career in high school? 7. Describe your general duties. 8. What are your weekly hours? 9. What is a general starting salary for someone in this field? 10. What do you like the best about your career? 11. What do you like the least about your career? 12. What advice do you have for someone considering this career?
For anime, I've been taking advantage of Crunchyroll's seasonal "one month free" promotions. Also pretty much everything that isn't new is legally available in 360p streaming, which is as good as you'll get streaming anywhere.
Dumb school making me do career interviews again. Can a software developer help out?
CAREER FIELD: Not sure what this means, so we'll say Software Engineering? JOB TITLE: Software Development Engineer in Test NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Chris Knox
1. How long have you been in this career? Five years post-college, but overall been in the industry (working for money) for 12 years.
2. What post-secondary training did you need to qualify for this position? I got a degree in Computer Engineering. Any degree in computers is generally mandatory to get a job at any established company in the US (startups are more forgiving).
3. How long did it take to complete? Four years.
4. Was there additional training required for this specific position? No, but for this specific position, having some experience in testing is desired.
5. Which high school courses helped prepare you for this pathway? Math and physics. And other boring classes where I spent my time programming on my calculator.
6. Did you know you wanted to follow this career in high school? Yes.
7. Describe your general duties. Writing software to help QA do their duties, making testing frameworks for other developers to use, and doing actual testing from time to time, though usually stuff beyond the scope of most QA testers, like load testing.
8. What are your weekly hours? I work 9:30-6 Mon-Fri.
9. What is a general starting salary for someone in this field? In the area that I live in (Seattle, WA), a general starting salary can be anywhere from $50,000-70,000 depending on the company. Bigger companies tend to give more. I personally started at $60,000. From what I know, people in more expensive areas (California/New York) tend to make more out the gate.
10. What do you like the best about your career? Developing software is a great creative challenge. Solving problems is often fun and rewarding, especially when you see your products getting used by others. Plus, in general, the people in the industry are great people to work with.
11. What do you like the least about your career? Sitting at a desk for 8 hours or more a day is really bad for the body. The industry also tends to be rife with bloated expectations and too much stress.
12. What advice do you have for someone considering this career? The two best things you can be in this industry are: adaptable, and good at problem solving. You should be quick at switching between projects, code bases, languages, teams, etc. And the better you get at figuring out problems on your own (i.e. use Google, actually read documentation), the more valuable you will be to others.
Is it just me or has salted sweets become a thing? For example salted caramel seems to be all over the place. Or have I just stepped into yet another parallel universe again...
Is it just me or has salted sweets become a thing? For example salted caramel seems to be all over the place. Or have I just stepped into yet another parallel universe again...
It's a thing now apparently, the salted caramel is everywhere. I've also noticed that chocolate covered popcorn and pretzels have been a semi-seasonal for a few years now and are starting to creep into an all-year round thing in some stores I go to.
Now I've been seeing chocolate covered potato chips.
Thanks for the ideas but due to the depressing stupidity of devices connecting to the DNS name and not the IP address I'm gonna hold off to spare my family problems.
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Which was way less than I thought I'd spend, but it's got LOTS of glowing reviews.
I'm a complete novice, but the sound from this mic (recording vocals) is CRYSTAL clear and noise free, and I'm recording just a few feet away from a 75 gallon fish tank with sump that is constantly circulated with a 1200GPH pump, plus wavemakers, and a skimmer (also loud). The microphone filters ALL of that out and the vocals sound entirely true to life. I'm super pleased with what I got for what I spent.
Still, That's good mic and you got a good price on it.
I knew I'd scramble some terminology somewhere.
Thanks!
CAREER FIELD:
JOB TITLE:
NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED:
1. How long have you been in this career?
2. What post-secondary training did you need to qualify for this position?
3. How long did it take to complete?
4. Was there additional training required for this specific position?
5. Which high school courses helped prepare you for this pathway?
6. Did you know you wanted to follow this career in high school?
7. Describe your general duties.
8. What are your weekly hours?
9. What is a general starting salary for someone in this field?
10. What do you like the best about your career?
11. What do you like the least about your career?
12. What advice do you have for someone considering this career?
JOB TITLE: Software Development Engineer in Test
NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Chris Knox
1. How long have you been in this career?
Five years post-college, but overall been in the industry (working for money) for 12 years.
2. What post-secondary training did you need to qualify for this position?
I got a degree in Computer Engineering. Any degree in computers is generally mandatory to get a job at any established company in the US (startups are more forgiving).
3. How long did it take to complete?
Four years.
4. Was there additional training required for this specific position?
No, but for this specific position, having some experience in testing is desired.
5. Which high school courses helped prepare you for this pathway?
Math and physics. And other boring classes where I spent my time programming on my calculator.
6. Did you know you wanted to follow this career in high school?
Yes.
7. Describe your general duties.
Writing software to help QA do their duties, making testing frameworks for other developers to use, and doing actual testing from time to time, though usually stuff beyond the scope of most QA testers, like load testing.
8. What are your weekly hours?
I work 9:30-6 Mon-Fri.
9. What is a general starting salary for someone in this field?
In the area that I live in (Seattle, WA), a general starting salary can be anywhere from $50,000-70,000 depending on the company. Bigger companies tend to give more. I personally started at $60,000. From what I know, people in more expensive areas (California/New York) tend to make more out the gate.
10. What do you like the best about your career?
Developing software is a great creative challenge. Solving problems is often fun and rewarding, especially when you see your products getting used by others. Plus, in general, the people in the industry are great people to work with.
11. What do you like the least about your career?
Sitting at a desk for 8 hours or more a day is really bad for the body. The industry also tends to be rife with bloated expectations and too much stress.
12. What advice do you have for someone considering this career?
The two best things you can be in this industry are: adaptable, and good at problem solving. You should be quick at switching between projects, code bases, languages, teams, etc. And the better you get at figuring out problems on your own (i.e. use Google, actually read documentation), the more valuable you will be to others.
It's a thing now apparently, the salted caramel is everywhere. I've also noticed that chocolate covered popcorn and pretzels have been a semi-seasonal for a few years now and are starting to creep into an all-year round thing in some stores I go to.
Now I've been seeing chocolate covered potato chips.
Salted caramel is fucking delicious.
Salty-sweet is a snacking staple and not at all a new thing, although the popularity does seem to be increasing.
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