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Also I had a baby.

I haven't been on a forum in YEARS.

Don't get me wrong, a CS degree is definitely worth it's value because it easily open more doors.  You're going to be at a disadvantage on paper compared to a new college graduate with a CS degree because certain assumptions won't be able to be made when recruiters and hiring managers look at your resume, and you may not get a second glance due to them using it as a weeding out factor.

This can be true for a while.*  I don't have a CS degree, but I took the time to get some certifications and found that my hireability went way up (well, it helped that I knew what I was talking about, but it's hard to even get an interview when you don't have a CS degree OR certs).

* I've found, and am part of, a substantial portion of interviewers who are skeptical of a CS degree.  I hired two CS graduates as Jr. Devs at Terralever and both of them were total busts.  On the other hand, I've found that self-taught people who are really passionate about the work are generally miles better than the typical student.  Having said so, it depends on what you need: if you're doing LOB apps, you just need someone who can get stuff done, and that will generally be a self-taught person or someone with experience.  If you need specific kinds of computation done, such as a custom data structure, you might get better bang for your buck with a CS student.  (Or, you could find someone like me, who was self-taught but anal enough to try to learn about all the data structures and algorithms and can inexplicably talk about those with at least some level of knowledge).

Sorry I couldn't make it, the Evil Fiefdom had me working until 10:59 tonight.

Hrmm.... and what role might you play in all this fiefdom?

Serf.

Sorry I couldn't make it, the Evil Fiefdom had me working until 10:59 tonight.

35 monk a1 nm even though I beat a1 nm (wtf blizzard?)

Wow.  You just destroyed the English language more than Twitter.

This is pretty pedantic,

And shallow.

I *never* posted public info about the B.net 2.0 auth.  'rob' is a different person than me altogether.

I did host a wiki about WoW authentication, but it was generally private, and I'm fairly certain that since WoW became a B.net 2.0 client, that the authentication is different.  I may be wrong about that, though.

Oddly enough, I never met MM even though we probably lived ~50 miles apart.

I think it would be really interesting if chat clients could, for example, play the role as both web server and browser. Perhaps web technologies are ill suited to this, but certainly dynamic content that can be efficiently "chatted" with one or more users would be a curious tool. I mean something beyond a white board and video chat ... something that is as extensible as current web technologies.

I've definitely thought about things like that.  I think that opens up a lot of potentially scary attack surfaces though... security would be a bit of a challenge.  I don't think it's out of the question, by any stretch, though.

Bnet 1 or IRC or something similar.

You're publicly known to be a Microsoft employee on this forum. So why would you openly violate the Battle.net TOS/EULA and potentially make the code open source? Once you're known to be affiliated with a company, then the company expects you to behave yourself.

I knew someone who worked on reversing the Battle.net 2.0 protocol and Blizzard lawyers knocked on his door (quite literally in person). I think you're risking a lot playing with these bots that violate licenses (potentially even DMCA) now that you have your job at MS and it's not worth risking. Just move on.

I said nothing about Battle.net 2.0.

Yeah, well, it's kinda my job.

Speculate.

Playing around with Metro-style apps and the Win8/WinRT API and am curious how far I can take a bot.  If there's any interest at all I'll probably dump it into Gcode, otherwise it'll stay private.