If I had to take a wild guess I'd say it's related to this:

Yea i “changed” my job title lol

This can be true or completely false. Thinking it’s always true is a huge mistake though (and likely one that JMakins company is making).

Edit: And obviously “smart” has little to do with prioritizing deadlines and communicating with outside groups.

Oh yea I did stop for a bit, and the volume I go through is way way lower, and I vaporize 99% of the time, but it's too good.

Misled*

I already explained what happened and what I was told, unless you want to rehash that stupid argument again, I’m more than happy to

This is getting towards blog territory imo

I want to make a bot that reposts tweets from a given user onto 2+2. The Twitter API stuff looks easy, I'm curious about...
hosting: AWS lambda function that runs on a schedule? Can you carry state (like, last known tweet) across lambda function calls?
posting here: need to log in, then post. Is it as simple as submitting to a login form, grabbing whatever session token in the response, and adding that to the request for submitting the post form?

I do think jmakin should decide on if he wants to be programmer/developer or a project manager/business analyst.

I've decided my new plan is to make as much money as when I had two jobs. If I do that I can pay off my condo in 3 years. Then I can basically retire and do whatever I want.

Now I just need to find a way to make a **** ton of money...

I'm working on my next game which will be both ad and "buy premium to get features/disable ads" supported. Will be interesting to see what the revenue looks like. Current game that I can't monetize gets ~10k hits per day which doesn't mean a lot since its a SPA. Conceivably I could crank out a couple of these per year and make a lot of passive income, who knows.

Never done the freelance thing, but I think many here have. I'm a data scientist in Cleveland, lcol area obv, and my salary is just over 80k. I am being offered a contract position thru January, but not sure what to say with regards to hourly rate as I've never played the no benefits, no pto, etc. game. I am thinking 100/hr after some searching around, but anyone here have any input on that?

Contracting you consider the following:

2000 working hours in a year
$40/hr = 80k
Premium for contract vs fulltime +25%-50%

So standard contractor wage for you would be 50-60/hr, if you are being paid below worth/market then adjust accordingly.

$100/hr is 200k gross which seems high at a current salary of 80k but for a data scientist it might be fine, not sure of your market.

Did you have a code test during your interview process?

Yep. This has been discussed 100x

Thanks, Larry. I am underpaid according to market, which is why I'm considering the move in the first place. I don't mind shooting too high as I would prefer a normal job given I have a family and new house. The added risk of contract work is significant for me. But if they pay me quite a bit, then it's worth it.

I'm never doing contract work again, I couldn't get paid enough, at least not in Minneapolis. Current FT job salary is more than the last contract job hourly * 2080, plus the whole vacation and bonuses thing.

Yeah, I mean, if they don't pay an ample premium, then I'll just say no and move on. I'm getting killed on healthcare alone as my premiums would be 10x higher on the marketplace it seems and I'd give up the deductible/OOP max "progress" made already this year from my wife having a baby in Feb. Not that I'm expecting anything major health-wise, but if it did happen, it'd cost significantly more if I switched jobs.

you are massively underpaid. I mean, I just started and make that and feel underpaid.

I'm absolutely underpaid but my quality of life is unreal due to 100% remote work, unlimited vacation (that I'm not afraid to use), and night/weekend work is pretty much nonexistent. That means a ton to me.

I keep having these meetings with our compliance people and during the meetings I feel like I understand and agree with the assessments but then afterward I am describing them to someone and they ask a question about something, and it all collapses and then I don't understand again

I'm fairly sure the answer is no. You'd have to have some other data store that the lambda queried

VBulletin is a bit funky. There was some code that was used by automated bots for werewolf in POG. It lives here: https://github.com/chipsahoy/puzzles...lletin.cs#L191

I didn't write it and I've only messed with it a little. IIRC I had to patch it after some update a while back because the location of the authentication token had changed. But I just made a new build of the turbo client and sent it to someone and I don't think the change made it into github, since I don't have access and I was too lazy to make a PR. I can probably try to dig it up when I'm home, but I'm traveling at the moment.

Once you login you just need to include a cookie with subsequent requests that contains the session key.

Take notes

Oh god. Thanks for the info, but it sounds like this will be a lot harder than I planned. Is Lambda perhaps the wrong vector for this? That was just the first thing that popped up when I googled "aws twitter bot".

Lambda seems fine if you just want to run periodically. I have no idea how expensive it would get, I haven't used lambda very much. If you schedule it to run often enough it might be cheaper to just run a $5 droplet on DigitalOcean or something, but I have no idea if that's true. As far as the last known tweet, you could just setup an S3 bucket with a text file that contains the last seen ID and fetch that from the lambda.

I think the whole idea would be reasonably straightforward as long as you can write in a language that has nice HTTP client support, Twitter API support, and AWS S3 support. If you have to actually scrape something from a page then a decent scraping library would help, but I think that's probably not necessary. Everything that you need to know exists in the POG code, although in the past I've found that code a bit hard to navigate.

Oh, also I think because you can stay logged in you could even potentially hardcode a session cookie value for the account in the lambda and keep re-using it, which might simplify things. I'm not sure if 2+2 periodically assigns a new session key or not. I know the werewolf vote counter would stay logged in for me, so probably not.