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

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Noodleface

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I honestly don't have much interest in game dev. I actually do enjoy writing Java platform services. Their billing does like 4b a year annually so its pretty impressive and interesting infrastructure to work on.
Werd I was just curious. I think most of us on this forum had that pie in the sky idea of making games at one point.

I'd love to work at Blizzard but I'd have to divorce my wife to do it.
 

Tenks

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Agree with Cad. Hope they don't lowball you.
Just kinda surprised they didn't give you a verbal offer at least over the phone.

I have an open offer to be relocated (with pay-adjustment) to the Bay Area myself.
The bay area just does not interest me in the least. Not only the insane cost of living but I couldn't deal with the homeless and all that. Plus it just strikes me as pretense everywhere. Which may or may not be accurate.
 

Khane

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It doesn't interest me because I have an irrational fear of earthquakes.
 

Noodleface

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Tenks before you move make sure you watch San Andreas

I take it back, I like you. I can't do that to you.
 

Vinen

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The bay area just does not interest me in the least. Not only the insane cost of living but I couldn't deal with the homeless and all that. Plus it just strikes me as pretense everywhere. Which may or may not be accurate.
Homeless problem is more a San Francisco problem and not a Silicon Valley problem.
 

Tenks

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I know someone who purchased a home in San Jose and she was told by the seller they won't let her do an inspection because it was a waste of time and money and they have multiple offers anyways. So she had to buy the house without an inspection because if not someone else would.
 

Tenks

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My assumption is she went through the same process my friend did (it's my friend's wife's sister) which is he took his home loan out as some loan against her father's assets. Her parents are loaded. So it wasn't a bank issued loan.
 

Vinen

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What kind of lender lets you buy a house with no inspection?
Bank just requires Appraisal. Not inspection.
It's very common to wave inspections in Arlington, MA and assume this is the case in any low-inventory location.

//Just dealt with a Realtor today.
 

Vinen

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Our bank at least required any house we wanted to purchase to be inspected
Interesting. How is it different from a re-finance?
My wife and I had put in offers for 2 houses where we waved it. I wonder if it has to do with PMI. (The realtor we are using won't even talk to people unless they are going to be putting down 20%+)
 

Cad

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The bay area just does not interest me in the least. Not only the insane cost of living but I couldn't deal with the homeless and all that. Plus it just strikes me as pretense everywhere. Which may or may not be accurate.
Homeless are in SF not in silicon valley, and you'd have no reason to live in SF.

Pretense? I'm not sure what you even mean, but I don't see how SF/SV would be any more or less pretentious than any other large city. Especially when considering places like LA or Miami or NYC which are superficial as FUCK and obsessed with status.
 

Cad

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I think Portland is more the beer drinking, crunchy living type hipster crowd. Austin is the raw denim hipster type crowd.
Those places are every bit as pretentious, just in reverse, the status is appearing poor and natural no matter your wealth. The better you can approximate looking homeless 24/7, the higher your status is. It's comical but people are the same everywhere.
 

Vinen

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Those places are every bit as pretentious, just in reverse, the status is appearing poor and natural no matter your wealth. The better you can approximate looking homeless 24/7, the higher your status is. It's comical but people are the same everywhere.
While at the same time eating locally sourced, organic, fair-trade vegan beef.
 

ToeMissile

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If this won't convince you to move, nothing will.

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Big_w_powah

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So I think only Vinen knows where I work so I'm gonna post this awesome story.

Today was my first day back. Boss rushes over in a panic "are your local repositories up to date???"

Of course, they almost always are.

They went to backup and replicate our companies stash over the holiday weekend and somewhere something bad happened and they lost all the data. Still assessing damage and performing forensics but everything is gone and last snapshot was June 7th.

For me it's a little alarming since I'm the only person working in my code base. Could've lost a fuck load of commits.


Our company is primarily software driven though and some teams actually have real members and real working code.

I guess stash went down Friday and it's still down as of now. Not only could this be fairly catastrophic but also the loss of engineering hours. Daaaamn
Look,

I'm the server/desktop guy--not a developer..But I work for a development company (IT in the DFW area? plz send resume)...We have like 4 layers of backup.

And I feel thats inadequate sometimes--There is 0 freaking reason why you should ever loose that much data, that far back. Thats what the shit backups are for.


Want me to come overhaul your shit into something resembling disaster recovery? You'll find my rates are extremely high and not worth it.