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

Xarpolis said:

You could always go with the "draw straws" approach. Or a favorite, dollar flip. The 3 of them flip a dollar in the air. The one that lands the wrong direction loses. You may have to do it 2-3 times, but it always works.

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I like the dollar flip idea.

I edited my post to explain it more. Out here, people gamble about EVERYTHING. But the closest Casino's are a flight to Vegas (unless you're going to the illegal ones in Chinatown that sometimes get shot up...)

While at work, they would always do the dollar flip bet. Usually between like 5 people. It may take a while, but eventually it lands 4 and 1, making that 1 person the winner of all $5.
They also play a game called LCR. It's a dice game, where the dice says L(eft), C(enter), R(ight) or a dot, meaning you hold onto your chips. Everyone has two chips, and you roll the dice until one person wins, and wins the cash. It's a silly game, but it passes the time.

We also used to bet on what someone walking into a store would purchase.


EDIT: Ok, change of subjects back to my friend that had the option of working full time for good pay or part time for also good pay while continuing school. Here's a small update.

Looks like him getting fired is off the table now. The company he works for is fairly large with many buildings in the country. His boss coordinates 5 people in his department, but other bosses do the same. Then there's a few thousand people in manual labor doing production of physical parts that the company sells.

Turns out his boss and another small boss elsewhere are trying to combine together to make a new branch of the company. This branch is successful if my friend works there, but not if he doesn't. It looks like he's the most knowledgeable out of his group of coworkers. So if this boss is really determined to start the new branch, he will need my friend to work there.

Xarpolis said:

I edited my post to explain it more. Out here, people gamble about EVERYTHING. But the closest Casino's are a flight to Vegas (unless you're going to the illegal ones in Chinatown that sometimes get shot up...)

While at work, they would always do the dollar flip bet. Usually between like 5 people. It may take a while, but eventually it lands 4 and 1, making that 1 person the winner of all $5.
They also play a game called LCR. It's a dice game, where the dice says L(eft), C(enter), R(ight) or a dot, meaning you hold onto your chips. Everyone has two chips, and you roll the dice until one person wins, and wins the cash. It's a silly game, but it passes the time.

We also used to bet on what someone walking into a store would purchase.

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I mean, a game of chance is probably the fairest way to decide it..

As a vm shop, I don't know what to do with docker.

Degrees are fairly useless in game development. For AAA gigs your shipped titles is probably the more-gooder score.

Docker is cool shit. We're hoping to dockerize our deployments next year. Last I heard was Kubernetes + Docker but plans may have changed. It isn't really my department and I have about zero interest in deployment so I haven't been too involved.

I've been doing containers with Solaris for a long time. It's a little different than docker but same idea. It's awesome for the usual reasons, but they are also super lightweight. It's a shame everyone usually containerizes on VMs because you can achieve much better density and performance with pure containers.

Nija said:

Docker is hippy trash.

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Real men use Unikernals RITE?

Lendarios said:

Hey guys, is anyone familiar with pricing software as a service?
I made a thread with some questions and I didn't to clutter this one.

Thanks bye!!

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I don't price SaaS, but price a lot of services and DRaaS; I replied

*aaS triggers me. Buzzwords ahoy.

Tenks said:

*aaS triggers me. Buzzwords ahoy.

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Glad to be of service, my BaaS causing you to get triggered, thus TaaS