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Boxersalle
8y

Took a job during the summer vacation and was expected to sit through excel and click products and fill in info (mundane tasks). Overheard the boss talking to the coworkers "We need to translate 77,000 urls into images, how do we split this work up?" I jumped in and said "I can write that in code so you don't have to do it" They all looked at me like I was some sort of magician O_O. Had the program running during the weekend on three computers and all of the 77,000 urls are now a beautiful mess of pdfs and jpgs. Do you have a story that made you feel like a wizard?

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  • 2
    8y
    Getting SignalR and SQL Dependency to work.
  • 0
    8y
    Back when I was young and innocent I had this part time job where we had a bunch of blog URLs to fill in comments to link to our ringtone dialer download page. Classic PageRank farming. There was this huge excel file and everyone copied the url, pasted in browser, found the comment Form, filled in some spam, submit, rinse and repeat. I had some software that could record keystrokes as macros and automated the shit out of that process.

    Got my hourly salary doubled on the first day.
  • 0
    8y
    doubled?! I get nothing extra for this @darph
  • 1
    8y
    I even got the wizard status just concatenating two columns in excel so the didn't have to do the work manually :)
  • 1
    8y
    I just heard Professor Dumbledore in my head. "You're a wizard Boxer."
  • 1
    8y
    wizard?! I'm no damn wizard. I'm a lean, mean, coding machine. @snorlaxicon
  • 2
    8y
    one thing I did that had this :O factor was decompiling old code, changing the payment gateway, recompiling and having it work on the first try
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