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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    There used to be this smoking hot German project manager that worked in the dev office and I used to like to go in there just for some boner fuel later on. I think she liked talking to anyone that wasn't an autist. Anyway, there was a neckbeard dev who worked in there that used to fart it up and...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'd fire him or conspire to have him fired. I can't stand unabashed farters. That's just embarrassing for everyone. You know everyone that walks by and smells that rank shit is looking around and postulating whos rancid asshole that came out of.
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    EQ TLP 2024 Teek (Random loot) & Tormax (Traditional) #neckbeardnostalgia

    Another rousing round of original thought and philosophy regarding cheating in our favorite 26 year old game. How did it start this time... oh because a guy said "here's what I would like..." and everyone else said "No you wouldn't, you wouldn't like that!!! They aren't even the same crime...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Make really only makes sense for low level compiled code. The main purpose for it was to compare sources to decide what all it needed to compile and link. I.e. you change a .c file, you can probably just recompile that file and link where as you change a .h file, you likely have to recompile...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I do not have ADHD and messed around with Adderall and the anti-narcolepsy drug many years back. I can say that it did not make boring things interesting. So anything that I did not want to do, I still had to force my way through it. I personally found the anti-narcolepsy one better (I'm...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've been doing cloud work for coming up on 10 years now - which is crazy to think it's actually been that long... From a conceptual standpoint, there's sort of three major archetypes you can find yourself in and those are dependent on the type of business your employer does to some degree...
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    The Warriors (1979)

    If you were into rap in the 90s this was often sampled / quoted film. Warriors, come out and playyyy
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm sure it's directly related to the amount of spend an org does on MS, but I've always had good luck. Their architects have been pretty great and our TAM (or whatever they are calling them these days) is always on top of quotes - even looking for ways to "save" money. Some of their more...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    tl;dr - Gear is tertiary to strategy and leadership. It wasn't your fault when you were a bad healer. Big brain stuff, thank you for these gems.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The mental picture that I have is a doughy middle aged white guy trying to show off his dunks on a driveway hoop at his parents house that's been lowered all the way down. He's trying to get the attention of all the kids walking by and everyone is just calling him a retard - but in his mind he's...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I mostly use the LinkedIn skills and have taken a few test to get the green check boxes on them. I don't really put much in the actual resume part aside from job titles and dates. I've targeted all my connections so they're all past/ present coworkers along with some recruitment for actual...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I have a friend who's a director / c-suite type who's been out of work for like 15 months now. Some of it is undoubtedly him being picky, but still I worry about being in that box and not being able to jump into IC work whenever I want.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Maybe they want to make future expansions more open world driven? Only thing I can think of for FTE. Because I doubt they give any fucks about 1-5 races on TLPs and FTE wouldn't have a worthwhile effect on the instance heavy eras.