@gerritman123 depends on the use case but in general it is best to actually perform the action you are trying it emulate (speed wise) as a sleep could be as easily detectable as doing nothing... Thread sleep overhead and all

@struks93 common hacker trick to brute force logins using timings... If it takes longer to check a password hash on an existing account than it does for one which doesn't exist (same with locked out accounts) then they know it is a valid login account and they can then force the password

@xzvf I don't know...

Update: still no internet, they have 2 hours left before their "midnight" deadline

On a final note, I have been talking about getting an internship/job in industry but there is another less trodden path into academia, this is more for the person who has found their calling in university on a specific specialty such as AI, quantum computing or functional programming. The idea there would be to identify which topic you would be interested doing a Master's/PHD in and find yourself a good lecturer to help you through it, that lecturer may be from another university and make sure you are studying at a university which is known for that subject. If this is the path you want to go I would recommend talking to your head of course or a friendly lecturer to see what they say, most lecturers like encouraging their best students into further academia, usually means there are more lecturers in the department meaning less teaching requirement on them :)

Hope this helped!

2. Attend Milk roundabouts, basically job fairs for startups/ small to medium companies. You can always be favoured if you can impress (but not oversell) yourself when meeting the tech lead for a small company for the first time but if you can make yourself memorable and get invited to an interview they may be more willing to give you a chance.
3. Attend user groups, find yourself a local usergroup for a topic you enjoy and chances are you will find people of similar mind who will be using that technology in their work, get to know them and see if their company is hiring!

Having just got through this myself I would agree with @growling,

If you need suggestions of where to start looking I would highly recommend:
1. Attending non-university events such as hackathons, these are normally sponsored by companies looking for skilled graduates or people looking for internships. These can work out great if you treat them as a way to show off your skills and not a competition. Chat to the sponsors, tell them about what you are making and see if they are hiring. I went to one hosted by a company and scored an internship sans interview and assessment centre. The student organised ones in league with MLH are also fun and you are more likely to find either more local people or people involved with startups if that is what you may prefer.

Feel your pain bro... Same issues here but compounded with the stupidly locked down permissions at work, can't even disable the visual studio built-in node v5.x runtime when project requires >6.

@devJoe Functions as a service, take a look at Amazon Lambda

it's more of a flagship contender

what about all the men who find you attractive :3

switch to Linux :P

ooh :D I have to do this... now to work out what NFC functions I can link with the stickers I got

"when you are asked to maintain code"

caffeine makes me sleepy

printf("Sorry") eh

@GinjaNinja that's what I think they are doing, but the place is large enough to have proper workflows in place that will stop catastrophic failures on the interns parts... that or we will be getting auxiliary tasks of nice to have features which would be adopted if they are good enough.

I'm of two minds, I want to show people that I have gone to events and display their stickers but my laptop is still too shiney to cover the lovely brushed aluminium

which one

@GinjaNinja this is one of the people who proves that getting a degree doesn't guarantee coding proficiency.