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  1. alavaz

    Losing your Job

    I used to work for Nintendo and the game tester guys were just as bad at hygiene as they were stereotyped to be. After lunch you could smell that bathroom halfway throughout the building.
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    Nu Metal

    I didn't think Kittie was nu-metal? I always considered them whorecore along with bands like the butcher babies and in this moment: edit: I listened to Brackish and now I get why Kittie was nu-metal.
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    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

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    John Smedley hired by Amazon to produce MMOs

    Brad will soon be smelling lots of cocaine.
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    Biggest guilty pleasures

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    Punk Music

    The best punk bass player is by far matt from opivy /rancid: maxwell murder solo is legendary: Fat Mike is probably my second favorite bassist: Other good bass intro shits: 88 Fingers Louie: Go Away Choking Victim - 500 Channels Monster Squad - Fire The Faith say what you will...
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    Losing your Job

    You get severance right? Use your last two weeks for 80 hours of job hunting.
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    How much income is enough?

    He means he wants to go gold hunting.
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    Nu Metal

    One of the first entries is 311. Aren't they like shitty whiteboy reggae/rap music? I wouldn't even RATM metal. They set out to emulate 90's underground sample heavy hip hop with live instruments and I thought Tom Morello nailed it pretty well with the screeches and scratching and shit. I also...
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    The Metal Thread

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    Nu Metal

    Spineshank dude actually went on to form a metal-core (did I get the subgenre right?) band: Nu metal goodness:
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    Smartphones

    I use the google hangouts. I have too many relatives and shit on Facebook that I try to avoid talking to.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've been entertaining the red hat certs, but I'm hoping my company will send me to the boot camp. The only problem is that they already think I'm the resident Linux genius (their all windows dudes) so I think they'd wonder why I wanted training.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Sec+ is relatively hard. Over a 20k question bank and it's all an exercise in "How does comptia want me to answer this." When I took it I got nailed on 802.1x and wireless security (rogue access point, etc.) as a huge amount of my questions. The sim part of it though (5-6 sims I think), which...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Take Windows Nano Server for a spin. I've got them set up as hyper-v hosts right now. They'd be even better as container hosts.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've got an MCSE, VCP and some advanced EMC storage certs that no one ever gives much of a shit about but that ITIL foundation cert I was forced to get a couple of years ago every hiring manager comments on and loves o_O.
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    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

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

    Windows 2016 Nano server is pretty slick. I have to build a lot of offline environments on portable PCs and this is the first time I haven't bought a VMWare license for the hypervisor.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    A lot of peoples "points" around here tend to be "You are stupid for being ok with that in your life since I would not be ok with that in my life." My wife doesn't really cook. She will figure it out if I'm not around to cook and make sure the kids are fed. Works for me. I'd also be happy too...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've worked in government for the last 9 years and they've all been "agile" shops. I have no idea how it works at an actual software company, but in the gov it just means you deploy changes more often than quarterly and have "scrums" every day.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm sure gaming with kids is cool when they are like 8+. My son is 5 and only wants to play minecraft. But when we play, he doesn't actually play, he just fucks around and kills me (but gets pissed if I hit him back), jumps around doing stupid shit while constantly telling me to "watch!" and...
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    Computer Issues

    A couple of things that may or may not be applicable: 1. Windows Key + S, type mouse and click Mouse settings. Go to pointers and if "Enable pointer shadow" is checked, turn it off. 2. Windows Key + S, type sound and click Sound. Right click your headphones > properties > Enancements then...
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    I just got DirecTV now. If anyone is using it on a FireTV or Fire Stick, you have to change the audio settings and turn Dolby off or almost all of your channels will play nothing but loud clicking. Prior to finding that shit out, I was about to just cancel it. I have 300mbps internet and it...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I inherited as/400's at two different jobs. If you've only ever worked in the nix/windows space, it's hard to wrap your head around at first. It is amazingly documented though and you can hit F1 on any command and see it's usage. I'd guess that the 50 year old women were probably mainframe/mini...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Well, if you want an actual IDE, then I guess eclipse is probably the de-facto free standard. If you (or your company) have some money to blow - JetBrains makes good products. Me - I like to use a text editor and the command line and/or a local web server. XAMPP is free and awesome for...
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    Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

    Check out the Steve Fishman deposition (there's like 9 parts). You can really see just how swept up this guy is. I really think Scientology sort of fits the bill for a lot of people with more analytical minds. Traditional religions are hard to quantify, Scientology on the other hand is like...
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    How much income is enough?

    Sheeeit... I'm renting a 4br 2.5ba 2100 sq footer for 1150 a month here in NC. I mean it's about as opposite as you can get from SF, but 100k per year here really goes far.
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    How much income is enough?

    Yeah, DOD is never going to be too remote friendly. I'm cool leaving the house every day though personally. I dicked around a lot when I was able to telecommute... almost to the point of feeling guilty. Almost.
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    How much income is enough?

    100k is a pretty good sweet spot. The problem I've had in looking for jobs that pay more is that they generally require that I either A. move to a bigger metro area in which the cost of living is higher or B. I travel extensively. It does seem like more and more companies are coming up with...
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    Home Improvement

    Unless your thermostat is super old, in my (albeit limited) experience it usually turns out to be a sequencer or a limit switch that is stuck when the heat won't turn off. You can youtube a replacement video for any of those parts for your model. It's relatively easy and usually only requires a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Your mistakes are causing wars bro.
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    How much income is enough?

    I think keeping up with your neighbors is getting pretty antiquated these days. Hell, most of the middle class neighborhoods I've lived in are filled with renters who don't give a shit. I think maybe the only thing I've ever semi tried to "compete" on was a super nice lawn and that held my...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I've peed out of my butt after eating questionable street food. Am I kink?
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Nah, it's actually taken from the title of an old play. The plot is about a husband who fucks with his wife's mentals. It's called gas light though because she watches a gas light flicker. Gaslight (1944 film) - Wikipedia
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I thought it was lighting farts on fire... I don't think Trump is smart enough to gas-light.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm guessing for legacy shit that people don't really need/want/lack the support to maintain in C any longer? who knows.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    They have translators - they were actually pretty popular back in the 80's and stuff. I know for sure there are FORTRAN to Ada and Pascal translators. I think there are some C/C++ to python type of translators as well. Most of them just rewrite source find and replace style so it would probably...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Heh it was a joke really. For a long time the array was the only data structure in PHP.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You could learn a lot about arrays with PHP hehe.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'd probably say that Perl is your forehead, PHP is a crude hammer and python is a nail gun if I were making web dev analogies.