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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They had addons pretty early on to show you where to quest. I definitely recall having an addon that would let you grab like 10 quests and then it would optimize the route you should take to complete them all. If I remember correctly it would even suggest when to hearthstone or die to speed up...
  2. alavaz

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

    Everywhere seems to do it a bit differently. People actually go after the tester jobs here because it's a good way to break into development. Our apps are nothing fancy though, they are mostly C# crud type web apps as well as modules for like SharePoint and CRM. I personally find that type of...
  3. alavaz

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

    At our shop software testers use some telerik tool to make scripts that jam a bunch of data, click all the buttons, etc. They don't really have to write too much code, but they get a ton of freedom so the good ones usually write tools that help to test better and take on coding projects on the...
  4. alavaz

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

    Could be like an R&D type position. At my work, the R&D department is like my dream job.
  5. alavaz

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

    I've checked out both, I don't see anything in .NET I would really miss by going to core aside from distinctly windows things. HTMLAgilityPack works just fine on core for me. I'd also not scrape in C# unless I absolutely had to, but that's another discussion.
  6. alavaz

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

    I wouldn't necessarily say that. Maybe you want to deploy it to both IIS and Linux, in which case you would most definitely want to do core. Actually, unless you are writing an application very specifically for Windows, I see no reason to not do core. Freedom to have your application run on most...
  7. alavaz

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

    .NET is similar to Java where it compiles to an intermediate language that then gets JIT compiled on execution to machine code. That's why you can write .NET in multiple languages, it all compiles to the same intermediate language. Core is just the OS agnostic version of this and it lacks...
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I dunno I guess it depends on how you play. I feel like BfA is the same shit as the last 3-4 expansions. I've levelled up solo. I've gotten my minimum ilvl for raiding from <insert source> and now I'm logging in 2 days a week for raids and the occasional login for a dungeon/emissary...
  9. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    As long as the customer you work with is cool, the contractor doesn't seem to matter that much unless the benefits really really suck or they are bad with money and can't make payroll. I've never heard of DataPath. Seems like Vectrus is the one always hitting me up for overseas shit.
  10. alavaz

    Forgotten Realms Novels

    I enjoyed Dragonlance (not Forgotten Realms but still DnD and solid high fantasy) and Starlight and Shadows quite a bit. Especially the latter. Elaine Cunningham's writing is a step above the usual DnD authors. Elminster was dogshit in my opinion and probably the worst series in all of the DnD...
  11. alavaz

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

    In VS2017 if I go to options > Text Editor > C# > General and uncheck automatic brace completion it works the way I think you want it to.
  12. alavaz

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

    Are you wanting it to stop inserting spaces altogether, or to auto insert a space between the statement and the opening parenthesis/brace as opposed to auto inputting a space after the opening parenthesis/brace?
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't think that is a mobile problem, just a mission system problem. (Unless of course you typo'd and mobile was meant to mean mission).
  14. alavaz

    Parent Thread

    I think people get the reward system all screwed up too. Hell, even my wife got to the point where she treated video games and TV as just a staple and not something you would take away for punishment. To me, if it's not a necessity, it's a privilege and in the same category as a reward. I have...
  15. alavaz

    Station Changers

    I'm at the age where I could comfortably listen to a large catalog of shit I like and probably not get tired of it, but I do still enjoy discovering new things, or like someone else said re-discovering songs I wouldn't have thought of on my own. I used to hate R&B in the 90's and the FM...
  16. alavaz

    Station Changers

    Future and Lil Wayne usually have me changing stations. I also hate really really old hip hop like Afrika Bambaata and Kurtis Blow. Anyone with Sirius XM can probably figure out the channels I bounce between.
  17. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    It's still the same. If you had one before there's a solid chance they can just reinstate it and get you going on a PRI right away. If it expired (they generally don't expire them at all now, so if it was active within the last 5-6 years you are probably good) then you have to hopefully get an...
  18. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    Overseas contracting isn't paying what it once was. They also cap the amount of income you can get tax free now. I mean it's still a good way to make extra money it's just not amazing like it was in the early 2000s. You also have to be overseas for a full year as a contractor to get tax free...
  19. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    oh shiiit you got Vince Masuka on bass. Sounds good bro, wish I lived close enough to drive, would totally attend this every year.
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think everyone agrees that we just want some Jim Crow brought to WoW and keep the PvP seperate from the PvE.
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You've also crossed into being that guy that complains about all the complaining thus becoming a complainer himself. Don't be that guy.
  22. alavaz

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

    I wouldn't leave without an offer in hand. If you mean when you should start looking, I pretty much continually watch what is out there. I'll apply to things here and there that sound really awesome just to see what comes of it even though I am happy with where I am for the moment. In January...
  23. alavaz

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

    bad example on my part, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that sometimes I can put things that everything styleguide ever written says should be on separate lines into a single line if I happen to find it more readable at the time. Honestly, I might even be able to with python, I...
  24. alavaz

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

    I mean I don't care all that much but sometimes when you're putting together a small script I'd rather do something like this in perl: say("nah") if($a != 1); versus pythons: if a != 1: print ('nah') Just quicker and easier but in the grand scheme not that big of a deal.
  25. alavaz

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

    Solaris and SPARC were a very robust combo at the time. Sun was able to cut into the mainframe market as a reliable but cheap alternative. They also got in big with dotcoms. I think in the 90s almost all major dotcoms ran on Sun machines with Solaris. They were also way ahead of their time with...
  26. alavaz

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

    Solaris isn't quite as prolific as it used to be, but I bet you there are plenty of big business and government institutions still running it, though on SPARC systems. Solaris on x86 seems like a waste of time and money to me. FreeBSD on the other hand... well I guess some people just really...
  27. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The flaw (nyuk nyuk) in your thinking is that we should spend time participating in something we aren't interested in before we proclaim we aren't interested. That just makes zero sense. You're basically saying hey suck a couple dicks then tell me you aren't gay. No one is buying it.
  28. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    Usually there is some large health system in your area (in mine we have Cape Fear and First Health), and you can check on their website for openings in all of their clinics and hospitals.
  29. alavaz

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    That's a good idea. The last time I looked into media converters for coax to ethernet they were a bit cost prohibitive, but that was 10ish years ago.
  30. alavaz

    Parent Thread

    Yeah I don't discipline other people's kids much more than telling them to knock it off, but I will kick them and their parents out in a heartbeat (or take my family home) if there are uncontrolled little assholes. Edit: I'm not judging either. I have a nephew I've come close to smacking a time...
  31. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm sure people have been asking for years, but I honestly don't understand why they don't de-couple pvp entirely. Open world pvp is dead and gone so it seems like it wouldn't be to hard to just have the same set of abilities act a little bit differently when a character is instanced into...
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So if want to profess my dislike for something I have to have spent counltess hours doing it and be one of th best at it in order to do so? Makes sense.
  33. alavaz

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

    I don't think it's inherently less readable than anything. I've debugged and refactored lots of "legacy" scripts and wouldn't rank the perl ones as the hardest. Python is definitely more prolific now, but back in the day perl gave us system admins amazing agility to do very complex things that...
  34. alavaz

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

    Whats wrong with perl? I mean I don't particularly love it or anything, but I did some state of the art shit with it back in the day. Your new project got an intel component? I used to work for an intel outfit and regexing with perl was my main task.
  35. alavaz

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Really depends on the layout of your house and where you actually able to put your router(s)/devices. Access Points have to be wired to a main router with an ethernet cable. If your house is new enough you can probably repurpose your phone jacks (I can explain more on that later) to use for...
  36. alavaz

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

    On most shared hosting they don't give you access to your apache conf so it's kind of impossible to point the server to the cert. Some will install a cert for you, but that's going to suck having to remember to send them your new LE cert every 3 months. Don't get me wrong, I think LE is the way...
  37. alavaz

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

    I doubt godaddy shared hosting (I'm assuming) will let you install your own cert.
  38. alavaz

    Laptop Computers

    Anything under $400 new will run like shit more than likely. You might be able to get some refurb stuff inthe $250-300 area. I'd try to find an i3 laptop and put Ubuntu on it. It will handle all that you want to do plus some.
  39. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think if they would fix loot (less rings and cloaks, more trinkets and weapons), do something with AP to not make it miserable, beef up tanks (that need it) and undo some of the GCD shit the game would be in a better state. As it stands, M+ is fun, Uldir is... well a raid and I suppose if I...
  40. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    Glad to see this has been discovered already. I don't even care that it's in some weird native language, it's like hardcore mixed with thrash and it works really well.