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Before you call yourself a JavaScript programmer, read the first volume of "You Don't Know JS" (free ebook). Most people who use a JavaScript framework know only enough JavaScript, say, "Hello, World," to make the framework work but not enough to understand and solve problems when the framework doesn't behave.

If you ever wondered what Marissa Mayer was like at Google, check out "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards.

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Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine. Another 40 characters won't change this.

Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Just a bean counter shirt to determine the yield per acre for each crop.

I thought Linux vanquished Minix back in the day.

Source: "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody

Amazon also has a policy against "Content that is freely available on the web, including content with open/public copyrights." This appears to forbid free cultural works from its platform. Do you consider it an acceptable tradeoff to be exposing your child to all proprietary video all the time, knowing that your child will be forever barred from ever creating anything substantially similar to anything he has seen on Amazon?

Yes.

Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine.

Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

Amazon also has a policy against "Content that is freely available on the web, including content with open/public copyrights." This appears to forbid free cultural works from its platform. Do you consider it an acceptable tradeoff to be exposing your child to all proprietary video all the time, knowing that your child will be forever barred from ever creating anything substantially similar to anything he has seen on Amazon?

However, Netflix and Amazon have a pretty high bar on quality for content to get on there.

Anyone with a bank account and a tax ID can upload video to Amazon Video Direct, so long as it's not obscene, not infringing, professionally produced, captioned, 720p or 1080p, and not high motion. What "pretty high bar" are you referring to?

However, Netflix and Amazon have a pretty high bar on quality for content to get on there.

Anyone with a bank account and a tax ID can upload video to Amazon Video Direct, so long as it's not obscene, not infringing, professionally produced, captioned, 720p or 1080p, and not high motion. What "pretty high bar" are you referring to?

However, Netflix and Amazon have a pretty high bar on quality for content to get on there.

Anyone with a bank account and a tax ID can upload video to Amazon Video Direct, so long as it's not obscene, not infringing, professionally produced, captioned, 720p or 1080p, and not high motion. What "pretty high bar" are you referring to?

Amazon's Conditions of Use - https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...

Quote (in bold on the page):
"Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Amazon Service, or to any products or services sold or distributed by Amazon or through Amazon.com will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court"

For single-family homes, if you're really worried about theft then you integrate a secure package receiving chute into the wall next to the front door or you put a different mailbox/post in, with such a device.

If you're living somewhere higher-density than that or cannot make modifications, and if your building has no doorman or has no provision to securely receive packages for you, then you should probably consider either Amazon Locker or else USPS General Delivery so that someone receives your package for you.

The only way I would want strangers delivering things into my house is if it's a small local private company that I've vetted myself, and that I've established the rules of entry for. I'm thinking keypad access where when I make a purchase, I dictate the ten digit number that they have to use to unlock the front door, that only works for five minutes from the time it's first entered when they arrive, and is authenticated on my equipment rather than on theirs.

VIRUS ALERT! WannaCry Virus in link!

1) Sanitized link to Vlog Like a Boss: How to Kill It Online with Video Blogging

2) "Creimer might be a shitposter"

"might"? He "might" be overweight too!

3) "but his book recommendations are impeccable."

How would he know, he admitted he doesn't (can't?) even read them! He uses books to support his shitty Goodwill bed that is probably sagging under the tremendous weight of his middle-aged bloated Harvey Weinstein-esque ogre-like body.

We know, Chris. [youtube.com]

The book is "Vlog Like a Boss: How to Kill It Online with Video Blogging" by Amy Schmittauer. Creimer might be a shitposter but his book recommendations are impeccable.

Pshhhh, cheap bastard, I paid $10,000 for my
platnium hdmi cable

Furthermore, some people have alarm systems and some don't, also something that will become evident to the Amazon delivery guy.

It's even worse than that. To use Amazon Key, you have to disable your home security system on delivery days.

After scoping out places with good stuff, presumably it would be trivial for an insider to find out when a given house in the portfolio was expecting a delivery and thus would be a sitting duck. And by waiting a few months between the scoping and the hit, there likely would be enough other deliveries in the interim that it would be extremely difficult to correlate the robberies with a specific Amazon employee (assuming there was even enough of a pattern to make the police think to go to Amazon in the first place).

I think I'll just stick with the (after 5+ years, still purely theoretical) risk of the occasional Amazon delivery box disappearing off my porch.

> with one of these ethernet cables

Those the are the same morons (AudioQuest) who sell a Diamond Braided $999 HDMI cable

When did audiophile become an euphemism for More money then brains ???

You can get a 15-pack of cassette tapes for $1.28 each. I remember paying $5 each cassette tape in a two-pack for my Commodore 64 when I was a kid. You wanted to get the best quality cassette tape to store your data back then.

The Chinese version is definitely cheaper.
 
For $39.99 you get a 720p wifi camera with "Cloud Service Available", so obviously they are getting that thing in orbit for next to nothing.
 
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016F3M7OM

If you buy a smart TV at a discount in exchange for giving the TV manufacturer the rights to show you adverts then of course there's no law that's going to 'protect' you from this. By buying the TV with those conditions attached, you've accepted the conditions.

In fact, Amazon does this now with smart phones and tablets. You can buy the phone or tablet at a discount for the "ad supported" version.

Case in point.

Fuck you!

Don't forget to order your own personal hazmat suit for those days when sunscreen isn't going to cut it.

I thought all programmers did their own testing. Or maybe I'm reading the wrong book? "Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript" by Harry J. W. Percival.

It needs to stop.

About 8 years ago, I read a book called "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism", by John Bogle, founder of Vanguard. In one of his chapters, he makes a case for ending executive stock-option compensation. The original intentions of stock-option compensation were to provide executives an incentive to perform well; as Bogle puts it, "align management's interests with those of shareholders".

But Bogle went on to explain a key difference between executives and shareholders. Executive interests are short-term, while shareholders are invested long-term. Most individuals still invest long-term, and a substantial percentage of the stock market is locked away in retirement 401k's / 403b's, or in pension account investments. That money's not going anywhere anytime soon. But executives want their salaries as big as possible, as soon as possible. So, rather than executives making business decisions with long-term interests in mind, they selfishly make business decisions that maximize short-term values with little interest in how those decisions will affect the value of the company beyond the sell date of their stock compensation, 401k's be damned.

And that's why we need to end stock-option compensation.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs. Running 19 GPUs is enough to burn down a shack.

Wait, do people still mine BTC with video cards!?!? Sounds expensive, and very 2012.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs. Running 19 GPUs is enough to burn down a shack.

Last week I ordered a generic three-pound counterweight for a mic stand that came without the tightening screw. Contacted Amazon, got a shipping label, dropped it off at the post office, and got a refund within four hours of the package being scanned at the post office. I ordered the Manfotto three-pound counterweight and was much happier with that purchase.

Last week I ordered a generic three-pound counterweight for a mic stand that came without the tightening screw. Contacted Amazon, got a shipping label, dropped it off at the post office, and got a refund within four hours of the package being scanned at the post office. I ordered the Manfotto three-pound counterweight and was much happier with that purchase.

A book written 20 years ago explains it.

In their terms, (computer) + (ship) = (computer)

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (no release date yet). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (no release date yet). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine. Deleting the president's account? Just another day at Twitter.

Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost Meerloo. I think they learned it from the Chinese.

If you want mine your own bitcoin, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

It has been years since bitcoin mining was profitable on GPUs, and you don't need PCIe slots since bitcoin mining requires near zero bandwidth. Go to Google (or Amazon) and type "bitcoin asic". But keep in mind that the best ASICs are not for sale.

If you want mine your own bitcoin, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

You can get the latest model, HP Envy 5660, for $95.

I bought a Sony T637 in 2004, still my 2nd favorite phone. floAt's Mobile Agent and a slew of accessories made it very very sweet at the time. Admittendly,. coming from a Siemens S46,

And it had Bluetooth.

I bought the only BT headset available at the time, a Jabra. Remember, the crescent-shaped abomination that announced to the world 'I am a true geek, lost to my passion for technology and finding new ways to ignore YOU'. Surprisingly, it neither made me a pariah nor prevented my meeting and marrying my wife. She got a headset also when she got a new phone, for the real reason BT was invented was to prevent headphone cables from becoming entangled in the stick shift... Yes, really. All else was superfluous until the Millennials destroyed the manual transmission market.

  Since that phone, of course, I've bought nothing else The BB 7105t I next had included BT, no stereo yet. And then The Dream - HTC G1. Bluetooth was supported a few months after launch, so yes, I was in virtual hell for a bit, but they came through. And then I could finally retire my Minidisc player... I've still got it, with remote, a bunch of blank discs, battery case, and car mount, if you;re interested. I'll even throw in a new rechargeable battery if you give me a few days, make an offer. MiniDisc is underrated tech.

I really cannot imagine using corded headsets. the hassle, the limitation, not being able to leave the phone on the garage workbench while I mow the lawn, just touching my ear to answer a call. It really is time for the Butlerians to relent and use the useful technology that is Bluetooth. Or not, and whine about having to use a dongle-enabled wired set of buds for however long they must.

If you want mine your own bitcoin, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want to look younger for your next IT job interview, use Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream Face Moisturizer to keep your face looking younger than your body.

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You were saying?

"They" don't have to put cameras in cars, "We" are doing it for "them"

Key loggers are cheap.

That book is available for pre-order (no release date yet). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

Yeah the stock market is full of rampant speculation, but I think Wall Street is probably has it right. I know I will be modded down for pointing this out but Coffee Lake is sold out everywhere, Ryzen is not. Although Ryzen has made AMD competitive, most PC builders are still buying Intel.

Given that it took Intel 8 months to add Coffee Lake in between Kaby Lake and Cannon Lake and it took AMD 5 years to develop Ryzen... the situation that happened between 2003-2006 when AMD was the technically superior choice is unlikely to ever happen again. The good news is that Ryzen has made AMD just slightly profitable again, so at least they are no longer in danger of imminent bankruptcy.

Yeah the stock market is full of rampant speculation, but I think Wall Street is probably has it right. I know I will be modded down for pointing this out but Coffee Lake is sold out everywhere, Ryzen is not. Although Ryzen has made AMD competitive, most PC builders are still buying Intel.

Given that it took Intel 8 months to add Coffee Lake in between Kaby Lake and Cannon Lake and it took AMD 5 years to develop Ryzen... the situation that happened between 2003-2006 when AMD was the technically superior choice is unlikely to ever happen again. The good news is that Ryzen has made AMD just slightly profitable again, so at least they are no longer in danger of imminent bankruptcy.

If you need to do HDMI over ~30' you need to go the something like this balun setup that use Cat5e/6 to transmit the hdmi signal.

Before you can risk other people's money, you need to save your own money first.

Source: "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason.

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