this is the thread for loling about lowtax selling the forums (or not)

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Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Buck an hour to probe somebody else. Boom you're a millionaire jeffrey

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President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

around here that�s drat good money

# ? Oct 10, 2020 18:45

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

The Management posted:

360k per yeah is a dece Bay Area FAANG senior engineer pay, but not exactly a fire hose.

yeah but the Bay Area is a horrible bazinga hellworld

# ? Oct 10, 2020 18:51

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Jonny 290 posted:

Buck an hour to probe somebody else. Boom you're a millionaire jeffrey

most yosposters are wealthy so this would result in 90% of yospos being on probation at any one time

i approve

# ? Oct 10, 2020 19:02

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

wealthy bodybuilders no less

# ? Oct 10, 2020 19:05

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

extremely handsome, too

# ? Oct 10, 2020 19:41

El Mero Mero: Oct 13, 2001

Jeffry hire me to fix the forums I promise to take your money

# ? Oct 10, 2020 19:54

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

The Management posted:

360k per yeah is a dece Bay Area FAANG senior engineer pay, but not exactly a fire hose.

getting paid that for part or even all of a single year is between a third and a tenth of what you'd need to retire at 65 years old, today

# ? Oct 10, 2020 21:26

TerminalRaptor: Nov 6, 2012; Mostly Harmless

train a neural net on stymie and fishmech postings. Charge an annual registration fee on how much your posting matches with the model. rates rising exponentially the closer the delta gets to 1.

# ? Oct 10, 2020 21:39

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

getting paid that for part or even all of a single year is between a third and a tenth of what you'd need to retire at 65 years old, today

The Management is what his name implies. there are a handful of yospos apple/google goons making $300k+ and acting like that's normal and not especially wealthy, even for computer touching in san francisco. it's the usual brain worms where the marginal utility of additional dollars decreases dramatically past 6 figgies so people feel like they're not "rich" despite personally earning six times the average american household income.

my landlord's son and daughter in law are corporate counsel for apple and a specialist surgeon, respectively, pulling down something like $800k combined. they complain that they can't afford a reasonable house on the peninsula to raise their family in, because they want a 5 bedroom place in the most expensive part of cupertino.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:03

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

uh i mean lol lowtax sold the forums. wonder how long he's gonna keep his gtr

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FCKGW: May 21, 2006

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Pardot: Jul 25, 2001

Jonny 290 posted:

the what

qfb

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:17

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

FCKGW posted:

lol

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:18

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

FCKGW posted:

lmao.

really puts the $11k per month lowtax spin fund/save the forums/gaming garbage patreon into relief

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:23

Fame Douglas: Nov 20, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

That still doesn't mean I'll give Geoffrey any money, but nice try.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:36

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

wheres my fuckin spaceship jeff

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:41

Fabricated: Apr 9, 2007; Living the Dream

FCKGW posted:

Lmao

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:42

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

infernal machines posted:

lmao.

really puts the $11k per month lowtax spin fund/save the forums/gaming garbage patreon into relief

interestingly lowtax didn�t sell sa-llc, he sold the assets, which implies that he assigned stuff like his house and car to the llc. so sa-llc could have been at a huge deficit even while the site was doing fine.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:51

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

well he worked out of his house fore a long rear end time didn�t he?

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:53

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

graph posted:

wheres my fuckin spaceship jeff

the lease papers are on their way.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:56

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Midjack posted:

interestingly lowtax didn�t sell sa-llc, he sold the assets, which implies that he assigned stuff like his house and car to the llc. so sa-llc could have been at a huge deficit even while the site was doing fine.

i think that's what everyone figured too. presumably the llc owns all of lowtax's stuff, for tax/alimony reasons

# ? Oct 11, 2020 00:56

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

so did lowtax keep some IP with the llc or something?

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:02

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i wonder if he retained the rights to all his front page articles?

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:06

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

FCKGW posted:

where�s this thread?

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:06

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

President Beep posted:

so did lowtax keep some IP with the llc or something?

nope

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:06

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

PIZZA.BAT posted:

where�s this thread?

qcs

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:06

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

PIZZA.BAT posted:

where’s this thread?

probably QCS

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:06

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

PIZZA.BAT posted:

where�s this thread?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3943494

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:12

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Fame Douglas posted:

That still doesn't mean I'll give Geoffrey any money, but nice try.

don�t worry i�ll give him twice as much to compensate

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:17

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

going to leave my donation tag on in shame

fool me once shame on you, fool me twice can't fool me again

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:23

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

bans are back on the menu now, i suppose.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:29

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

FCKGW posted:

lmbo

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:29

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

FCKGW posted:

this is aggravating because even I donated and it was bullshit

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:36

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

SmokaDustbowl posted:

going to leave my donation tag on in shame

fool me once shame on you, fool me twice can't fool me again

i turned mine off because it detracts from the otherwise awesome av

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:42

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

i ditched mine because i got tired of looking at it. much like my posts.

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:47

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

PIZZA.BAT posted:

where�s this thread?

just look for his posts

https://forums.somethingawful.com/query.php?action=posthistory&userid=89442

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:48

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

President Beep posted:

so did lowtax keep some IP with the llc or something?

he kept the pak and chooie, but not the unf

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:49

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Fwiw, without making any final commitments, I am leaning away from xenforo. I think it is actively an open question whether it'd be less work to modernize the current code, or port enough features to xenforo to make it feel like home. Complete rewrites are always alluring when you have a crusty old system but they often make things worse. There's a reasonable chance that migrating will mean we end up with something that sorta feels like SA but not really, and everyone hates it.

Modernizing the code is also a big undertaking but it's a lot easier to do incrementally and not like, some impossible dream. There are some strange decisions but it's not as bad as I expected when I showed up. I kinda love our stupid software and I think, ideally, we'd keep the 2002 look and feel while adding in all manner of modern conveniences.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

See I don't think it's quite at "insane hacked together unreadable garbage". It's....old, and there are some pretty questionable decisions, but it at least crosses the bar of "readable". I think the radium blame was exaggerated - he was no brilliant mastermind planning for 2020, but he wasn't The Worst Programmer Ever and he sincerely did some pretty cool stuff to make vbulletin scale to how many users we had. I would very much like to hear his side of the story and would be pretty happy if he came and posted.

I can't believe he's considering not throwing away a code base that seems to work very well for it's purpose.

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infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

akadajet posted:

I can't believe he's considering not throwing away a code base that seems to work very well for it's purpose.

there is no way that guy works in IT

# ? Oct 11, 2020 01:53

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