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27yr software architect making 120k in Albany taking questions

1rm 225x310x405 bench squat dead. Taking questions
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
what is albany like
Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead
  01/22/18
Are you from Albany
stimulating chestnut boltzmann
  01/22/18
where is albany
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
what went wrong?
khaki point
  01/22/18
Heroin
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
Is Albany the next Silicon Valley?
stirring onyx sweet tailpipe
  01/22/18
From albanyish. It's cold and depressing. In Latham.
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
how are da ho's
Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead
  01/22/18
50/50 would try again
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
nonstem bro here. can i self teach and becum a dev/?
Motley mental disorder center
  01/22/18
Yea. I self taught before CS degree. Current company didn't ...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
yes. you don't need to be smart, but you def need a work eth...
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
You need to enjoy it IMO or else you'll never make it. You a...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
...
Supple Cuckoldry Elastic Band
  01/22/18
cool. where should i start? i half assed some freecodeacadem...
Motley mental disorder center
  01/22/18
I started programming as a kid. Wanted to make a website to ...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
freecodecamp is ok for reinforcement, but not great to learn...
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
this is great, ty
Motley mental disorder center
  01/22/18
np, brother. I think these books are pretty good for star...
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
180
Motley mental disorder center
  01/22/18
Remember that you have FRIENDS here if you ever need help.
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
If you want an interesting project I'll give you a hint. You...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
I'm dumb as fuck and legitimately lazier. make $120k working...
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
Uh, don't you practice algorithm problems every day?
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
yeah I do a topcoder problem everyday. still fell dumb tho
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
Waste of time unless you want to work for Big 4 or a unicorn...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
What are the Big 4?
soul-stirring giraffe
  01/22/18
an accounting term people try to force meme on to tech
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
edit: probably referring to facebook, google, amazon (lol), ...
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google comprise the big four, or FA...
Thriller disrespectful senate
  01/22/18
lol at amazon
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
? Amazon arguably belongs on that list more than FB, Uber...
concupiscible pearly house place of business
  01/27/18
...
Chartreuse property
  01/23/18
Google, microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. It's actually big n now...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
I don't think it's a waste. I've been asked to whiteboard a ...
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
Yea but if you can't reverse a btree on my whiteboard you mi...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
cr
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
as in a binary tree?
soul-stirring giraffe
  01/22/18
spin, ratfucks
costumed marvelous principal's office
  01/23/18
Dominating the Rensselaer spooky house scene. https://www...
Wonderful Doobsian Casino
  01/22/18
350k in renn no thanks, not even for a Munsters set replica.
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
how many bowel movements per day do you have?
Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead
  01/22/18
I'm glad you asked honestly. I didn't shit for 12 days stra...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
Weird things was I shit again the very next day. I've been m...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
what language/framework? Just moved from dual native iOS and...
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
I have very deep experience in the Java ecosystem. A lot of ...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
Do you think AWS will become ubiquitous for da cloud as Micr...
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
I like their services but I don't really have the foresight ...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
whoa 180 ty
Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha
  01/22/18
Np. https://aws.amazon.com/usability-signup/ IBM does t...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
180 tyty
Chartreuse property
  01/23/18
no, azure is here to stay. even though AWS accounts for vast...
Big topaz menage
  01/27/18
Translation - I am white and act as if I know stuff. I super...
soul-stirring giraffe
  01/22/18
Only one Indian. She does a lot of work and is extremely de...
Mustard patrolman
  01/22/18
what kind of house you got and how much, what kind of car, a...
Copper church
  01/22/18
thoughts on Ted's Fish Fry brother?
abnormal excitant double fault
  01/27/18
How do you survive on so little money?
Jade indecent electric furnace
  01/27/18
...
fear-inspiring arousing space ape
  02/23/19


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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:28 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

1rm 225x310x405 bench squat dead. Taking questions

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214409)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead

what is albany like

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214410)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:30 PM
Author: stimulating chestnut boltzmann

Are you from Albany

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214425)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:31 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

where is albany

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214429)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:31 PM
Author: khaki point

what went wrong?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214434)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:33 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Heroin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214450)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: stirring onyx sweet tailpipe

Is Albany the next Silicon Valley?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214440)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

From albanyish. It's cold and depressing. In Latham.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214441)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead

how are da ho's

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214446)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:34 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

50/50 would try again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214464)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:33 PM
Author: Motley mental disorder center

nonstem bro here. can i self teach and becum a dev/?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214448)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:33 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Yea. I self taught before CS degree. Current company didn't even care about the degree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214456)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:33 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

yes. you don't need to be smart, but you def need a work ethic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214457)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

You need to enjoy it IMO or else you'll never make it. You are competing against people who do it for fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214471)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:43 PM
Author: Supple Cuckoldry Elastic Band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214534)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: Motley mental disorder center

cool. where should i start? i half assed some freecodeacademy stuff but didnt enjoy it tbh. was there an "ah ha" moment for you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214475)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

I started programming as a kid. Wanted to make a website to showcase my super cool skateboarding skills. Liked it from the start. I suggest thinking of something you want to build, then build it. Best way to start IMO

As for online resources, any will do. I find short tutorials that illustrate whatever problem I'm trying to solve the most beneficial

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214492)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

freecodecamp is ok for reinforcement, but not great to learn from imo.

Where should you start? These are minimal skills you'll need, none of which is hard:

-Create a web site

-organize elements on a page: HTML

-control their appearance: CSS

-control their actions: javascript

-Store data that your web site will access

-Typically SQL or Mongo

-Run web site with a backend server that controls flow of information from users (that will get stored in SQL, for example) and to users (from SQL db).

-You can specialize further and learn React, for example, which is a javascript library that facebook came up with to organize elements and information flow on a web page.

My own moment of epiphany came when, after studying the front end (HTML/CSS/javascript etc.), I learned how to connect all that to a database that I would design.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214560)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: Motley mental disorder center

this is great, ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214573)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:58 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

np, brother.

I think these books are pretty good for starting out, because the online exercises give you a lot of practice. You should be able to find a pdf online pretty easily.

https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Myers/e/B00HNW14T4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6?qid=1516679682&sr=8-6

http://www.asmarterwaytolearn.com/htmlcss/index-of-exercises.html



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214689)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:00 PM
Author: Motley mental disorder center

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214704)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

Remember that you have FRIENDS here if you ever need help.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214760)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

If you want an interesting project I'll give you a hint. You can download the entire xoxohth database with everyone's email/hashed password/account information through a SQLi vulnerability in one of the websites get parameters. Do a bit of research into SQL, SQLi, php, http methods.

If the parameter isn't SQLi vulnerable (it might have been a false positive) you can exploit it as an inpersistent xxs, and then hijack admins session if you catch him at the right time. This would at least give you access to his account which might be privileged.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214764)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:43 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

I'm dumb as fuck and legitimately lazier. make $120k working from home dev explain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214537)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

Uh, don't you practice algorithm problems every day?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214569)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

yeah I do a topcoder problem everyday. still fell dumb tho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214583)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Waste of time unless you want to work for Big 4 or a unicorn. Most companies don't even whiteboard outside of the software industry. I conduct whiteboards but never more than medium difficulty questions from leetcode, the talent pool just isn't there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214641)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:00 PM
Author: soul-stirring giraffe

What are the Big 4?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214709)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

an accounting term people try to force meme on to tech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214722)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

edit: probably referring to facebook, google, amazon (lol), and Microsoft (lmao)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214739)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful senate

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google comprise the big four, or FAAG

But with Tesla and Uber, we now have FAAGUT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214736)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:05 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

lol at amazon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214745)



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Date: January 27th, 2018 6:20 PM
Author: concupiscible pearly house place of business

?

Amazon arguably belongs on that list more than FB, Uber or Tesla. The engineering that goes into AWS is insane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35255355)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:01 AM
Author: Chartreuse property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35215698)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Google, microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. It's actually big n now because you also have palantir, Twitter, erc and all the other unicorns. Basically any trendy company in Palo alto

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214742)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

I don't think it's a waste. I've been asked to whiteboard a bunch of times and always do well. it helped a lot when I was breaking in. Now it s just good for maintaining chops

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214720)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Yea but if you can't reverse a btree on my whiteboard you might as well choke on a big one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214582)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:08 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214766)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:48 PM
Author: soul-stirring giraffe

as in a binary tree?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35215038)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:04 AM
Author: costumed marvelous principal's office

spin, ratfucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35215699)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: Wonderful Doobsian Casino

Dominating the Rensselaer spooky house scene.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Rensselaer-County-NY/2093530625_zpid/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214498)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

350k in renn no thanks, not even for a Munsters set replica.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214508)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:40 PM
Author: Beady-eyed mahogany circlehead

how many bowel movements per day do you have?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214515)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:42 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

I'm glad you asked honestly. I didn't shit for 12 days straight. Released it two days ago. Not even lying it was 3 feet long no joke. The stress did it to me. I wanted to take a pcitrue. Clogged the toilet and my girl plunged it. These are 100% facts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214525)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:43 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Weird things was I shit again the very next day. I've been making fruit peanut butter and milk smoothies. Thought they'd help cause of the fiber but it did the opposite I think. Don't drink enough water

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214536)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:42 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

what language/framework? Just moved from dual native iOS and Android to Xamarin C# and may NEVER go back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214528)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

I have very deep experience in the Java ecosystem. A lot of experience with struts/spring/osgi, hibernate, maven/Gradle/ant, docker/Jenkins, etc but I my worth mostly comes from my platform experience with Oracle SOA / Oracle cloud, Hybris, and AWS. I don't actually code much anymore as part of my job, I am more of a technical manager

I understand how you can dislike native Android / iOS however coming from a Java background in a big Android enthusiast and love the platform and it's APIs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214557)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

Do you think AWS will become ubiquitous for da cloud as Microsoft was for business apps in the 90s/2000s? They control all of the infrastructure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214577)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

I like their services but I don't really have the foresight to predict business markets in general. However, if you're interested, Google "AWS usability study" and sign up. You basically get emails periodically where you sit with a developer and go over one of their prototypes (you just use it and give feedback). They give u between 100 and 250 Amazon gift card that can be used on anything in the e-commerce store. I've made at least 1500 this year doing it, it's money I can justify spending frivolously. You don't need any experience, they aren't quizinf you just asking for feedback on their UI. I think it's the reason their services are so good, they spend a lot of time on usability

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214619)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Irradiated peach step-uncle's house alpha

whoa 180 ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214634)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:01 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Np. https://aws.amazon.com/usability-signup/

IBM does them too and they pay cash. Not nearly as often as AWS, but in college they paid me 75 an hour to do a 10 hour usability study for a OCR product (admin/setup functionality)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214715)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: Chartreuse property

180 tyty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35215701)



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Date: January 27th, 2018 6:13 PM
Author: Big topaz menage

no, azure is here to stay. even though AWS accounts for vastly more traffic because it's used by some very large sites (and was the first real solution) the actual number of deployments for the two is much closer than you might think

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35255318)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: soul-stirring giraffe

Translation - I am white and act as if I know stuff. I supervise the indians that actually do the work.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214627)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: Mustard patrolman

Only one Indian. She does a lot of work and is extremely dedicated. The company I work for is mostly hires IBM/GE/RPI alumni for Dev. We have about 10 in-house devs and another 5 consultants depending on what's going on. It's a very weird industry you would never expect to spend that much on development

We actually actually outsource more for engineering design stuff. We use a lot of consultancies for our Oracle products and they are all Indiana though. You'd be surprised it's generally not much more affordable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214674)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Copper church

what kind of house you got and how much, what kind of car, are you married and is she fat or not, do you have kids, what do you spend money on for fun, what are some books you have read, and what gives your life meaning, if anything?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35214834)



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Date: January 27th, 2018 6:19 PM
Author: abnormal excitant double fault

thoughts on Ted's Fish Fry brother?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35255351)



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Date: January 27th, 2018 6:26 PM
Author: Jade indecent electric furnace

How do you survive on so little money?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#35255375)



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Date: February 23rd, 2019 7:21 AM
Author: fear-inspiring arousing space ape



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867950&forum_id=2#37830136)