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"So instead of repealing the law, how about extending to also apply to Google and Facebook?"

Not going to happen, I'll get to why in a moment... check out the links when you get the time. The brain doesn't see the world as it is, see the science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

This is former national security advisor of the united states Zbigniew Brezinski, worried about the political awakening of the masses, the rich and corporations fear the political awakening of the masses of the globe, so see what they really think behind closed doors here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

On social media -- social media are connected to intelligence agencies... if you think you are going to get privacy it's all bs and optics for the masses.

Reddit and intelligence agencies

Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world.

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

Wikileaks

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil inter

This is literally Ubuntu for Android. Plus an external GPU... oh wait, those have existed for a long time, too.

This is literally Ubuntu for Android. Plus an external GPU... oh wait, those have existed for a long time, too.

> I would also like you to explain to me what a "Social Justice Warrior" is

Replace the words with:

Stupid
Juvenile
Whiner

and you'll start to understand it what it means.

SJW is (typically) a dumb Gen Z with a pet peeve over some perceived bullshit "injustice" -- basically anything that doesn't agree with THEIR myopic philosophy. Now instead of actually _doing_ something AFTER careful analysis of BOTH sides of the issue, because issues are almost never black and white, they would rather have a knee-jerk reaction and whine about it instead.

For more information see the book:

SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police

There is no reasoning with these irrational people. They believe their POV (point-of-view) is the ONLY right one and blindly ignore facts. The classic attack is the ad hominem using labels as misogynist, trigger, microagression, etc. They are so insecure with their immaturity that they have to attack everyone else who doesn't agree with them. It is the ultimate Political Censorship gone wrong.

South Park poked fun of their stupidity in Season 19 by calling them Pussy Crushers

* Truth and Advertising
* PC Principal or DailyMotion

The only valid tactic is to ignore these whiney cunts -- because they make the classic Internet Trolls look like Saints in comparison -- otherwise you are just wasting your time.

You can fix ignorant.
You can't fix Stupid (Juvenile Whiners.)

It's just some random off-brand from eBay I bought two years ago, but I've had really good luck with most of the modern panels with sunpower cells.

No reviews on it, but it looks identical to this one:

39W folding sunpower panel

Plugged into the PowerAdd version of this power bank:

32,000mAh power bank

... via a cheap "MPPT" controller (non-automatic) floating the panel at 17V.

It's just some random off-brand from eBay I bought two years ago, but I've had really good luck with most of the modern panels with sunpower cells.

No reviews on it, but it looks identical to this one:

39W folding sunpower panel

Plugged into the PowerAdd version of this power bank:

32,000mAh power bank

... via a cheap "MPPT" controller (non-automatic) floating the panel at 17V.

So the pirates will need to spend $20 on one of these:

https://smile.amazon.com/ViewH...

The word of the day is: "Neoliberal." Means something completely different from "liberal" and you will note that the entire US political system operates on neoliberal guiding principles -- they just pretend not to. Read Shock Doctrine for an excellent introduction. Another word that applies here to John Deere is "rentseeking."

Let me recommend a book : "Neoliberal economists must die!" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H...

So, instead of popping in a card and 4 digit pin, I have to fumble around with an app then punch in a clumsy, 8-digit ramdom code I will have to mentally triple-check?

Might I suggest "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum"?

To borrow from the book, bank card + computer = computer

https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

The most important for a company to re-invent itself is the first item and it relates to "shoplifting all of the spare hours":

"Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency (by Tom DeMarco)"
https://www.amazon.com/Slack-G...

He says there is a tradeoff between efficiency meeting old needs quickly) versus effectiveness (meeting new needs with flexibility & responsiveness).

DeMarco points out that it is precisely the middle management layer that needs some slack time the most to be able to innovate in ways that lead to organizational learning. But everyone needs slack time to take part in that too. IBM is likely going in the completely wrong direction if it is reeling people in to presumably over-schedule them even more.

I last worked for IBM in Research about sixteen years ago myself... The project I worked the most on was the IBM Personal Speech Assistant (a forerunner to Siri and such). The team was very proud that Lou asked for one for his office:
http://liamcomerford.com/alpha...

But -- I had enough "slack" then (after a year of hard work) that when my then supervisor (his site above) went on a two week vacation, I build a speech activated display wall out of used ThinkPads which looked a lot like a Jeopardy board. (A coworker said it was a a good thing I was not in the lab when my supervisor first walked in after his vacation. :-) I always wonder though if years later that spark led to the idea of Watson being on Jeopardy?

Still think a conversational display wall is a good idea to pursue further. And I still want to make a programming language tailored to being edited easily via voice recognition. Of course IBM has long since sold off ViaVoice... And while there was some slack in Research then around 2000, I was told it was nothing like what was there in the 1970s and 1980s where a lot more creativity was possible. So, even then, these ideas were unlikely to be pursue-able.

And also around 2000, on teamwork at Research, one thing I heard at lunch was someone saying something like "We hire the top people from the most competitive schools and then wonder why they have trouble getting along.." There is a certain lack of diversity as well from such hiring practices.

I'm all for distributed systems, but for many big companies, mainframes still make a lot of economic sense:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/...
"While some believe that smaller distributed servers provide the agility needed in today's fast-moving cognitive era, the IBM mainframe is the preferred solution for many of the world's most competitive businesses, including:
92 of the top 100 banks worldwide
70%+ of the world's largest retailers
23 of the world's 25 largest airlines"

And see also, on a smaller scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"IBM designed IBM i as a "turnkey" operating system, requiring little or no on-site attention from IT staff during normal operation. For example, IBM i has a built-in DB2 database which does not require separate installation. Disks are multiply redundant, and can be replaced on line without interrupting work. Hardware and software maintenance tasks are integrated. System administration has been wizard-driven for years, even before that term was defined. This automatic self-care policy goes so far as to automatically schedule all common system maintenance, detect many failures and even order spare parts and service automatically. Organizations using i sometimes have sticker shock when confronting the cost of system maintenance on other systems.[1]"

In general:
"Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?"
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...
"Business is more mobile than ever. Yet however lightweight those mobile devices feel in your pocket, they can still make good use of a big, powerful machine chugging away in a back room, not going anywhere."

Mainframes are also more than just hardware. Mainframes are in a sense a culture of 100% uptime and reliability.

That said, distributed computing continues to improve... And distributed computing culture continues to improve...

As to the original article, IBM is still shooting itself in the foot with this move away from supporting remote work... What IBM needs to be creative is not colocation but "slack" in the Tom DeMarco sense:
https://www.amazon.com/Slack-G...
"Why is it that today's superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves. It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality, and, above all, produces growth."

That was the great thing about IBM Research when I worked there around 2000 -- a bit of slack to be creative and good work/life balance. But, IBMers even then said the rest of IBM was not like Research...

Since "Growth Rate" says nothing about actual size currently, I'm pretty sure you are in desperate need of reading this book.

Or are you saying that in just ten years after 6% compounded growth any number of various African countries will be equal in development to the U.S and Europe??

Unexpected encounters with dirty code will make it very difficult to make a sane prediction.

Dirty code is defined as ' overly complex or highly coupled.' As a programer you are expected to deliver X number of features by Y date. Unless one of those features is 'simple and loosely coupled code' what does that have to do with predicting anything? For performance you don't predict. Experiments are the only thing you have that work: test and change and re-test and un-change and re-test, endlessly. Anything else is voodoo programming, not to insult the pracitioners of Santaria, Vodou or Hoodoo.

How about predicting the schedule? I recall that Steve McConnell once joked that to get better at estimating we need to get better at estimating. (This may have been someone else.) Greg Wilson showed we can do this in programming, and Computer Science in general. We only have to do scientific experimentation with various methods. We throw away what doesn't work (instead of writing pulpy business books to bilk people out of money.) But you'll still have to run a lot of tests to do that, too.

It is not uncommon to see "quick" refactorings eventually taking several months to complete. In these instances, the damage to the credibility and political capital of the responsible team will range from severe to terminal. If only we had a tool to help us identify and measure this risk.

It is my opinion that any refactoring that cannot be done by an automatic program isn't refactoring. The original definition of refactoring is just 'factoring' or re-organizing the code. It is not a re-writing as in an 'several months' effort.

Misuse of a sexy, trendy name from the 90s does not change this. All re-writing suffers the risk of second-system syndrome and not in the throw-one-away sense of prototyping. Do you have a button to press in your IDE to make the change? Do you have in mind a short sed statement, simple awk program, EMACS macros or a on-hand shell scriptlet to do the transformation? If not then you cannot get away from re-thinking the problem. This will require re-design of the solution and re-implementation of the feature. Each of these carries time risk at least as high as the original work.

What if the problem is overly complex or highly coupled? The code may merely be an expression of this. In this case only a paradigm or perspective change by the customer, developer or user can untangle the problem. The computer cannot help you do anything but automate making a mess if the problem is a mess. Changing perspective is often an unbound-in-time problem for human beings. Good luck with estimating completion dates for that.

In fact, we have many ways of measuring and controlling the degree and depth of coupling and complexity of our code. Software metrics can be used to count the occurrences of specific features in our code. The values of these counts do correlate with code quality.

In fact, Greg Wilson showed in his presentation that almost every metric on the market when analyzed showed no better and usually equal predictive power as simple counts of Lines of Code.

The situation in programming is almost as if more code equals more bugs while less code equals less bugs.

This seems obvious and

"He'd let us slack off all day. "

Maybe your ex-boss also understood some of the ideas in Tom DeMarco's book "Slack"?

"Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency"
https://www.amazon.com/Slack-G...
"If your companyâ(TM)s goal is to become fast, responsive, and agile, more efficiency is not the answer--you need more slack.
    Why is it that todayâ(TM)s superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves. It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality, and, above all, produces growth.
    With an approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook debunks commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and gives you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectiveness."

Other related ideas I've collected:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

LUKS across all systems, done.

Solves 2 issues.
a) no more Windows.
b) no more Microsoft Updates.

Been running LUKS encryption on almost all our systems for years. Use 2FA to unlock the encrypted partitions - a short-ish passphrase (only 20 characters) + HW token input.

No passphrase (there are 8 different slots for multi-user systems), no unlock.
No HW token, no unlock.

Of course, you need to be there physically during boot to make it work - or have remote USB passthru working.

Check out OnlyKey https://www.amazon.com/OnlyKey... to get started.

Great excuse. I tried something similar that time I wrote a poem in a physics exam

Except in my case it is not an "excuse", but the reason. For me English is the third language... Though I did study it in school, it was desultory and concentrated mostly on vocabulary and things like Past Perfect Tense. I only started picking it up for real after immigrating.

Perhaps more importantly, my (heavier than is customary these days) usage of commas may not be as wrong as is alleged by the haters. Consider, for example, this quote:

"When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our former education. We established, however, some, although not all its important principles." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:44

Commas around words like "however" and before "although" come naturally to people used to write in Ukrainian (and Russian), but most English writing today would omit them. Because you can't agree among yourselves on how they are used, and various books on grammar contradict each other and inevitably offend some of the experts.

They told me to fuck off, and I'm passing it on.

Keep it. Writing essays is how students learn Physics in America's wonderful public schools these days.

You haven't priced ebooks lately. Most of them are considerably more expensive than having a physical copy shipped to you. Take for instance the classic 1984. A paperback copy can be bought brand new including shipping for $6.51. On Kindle, it is 50% more, at $9.99. I love my Kindle, but I refuse to pay the premium price that publishers are charging for the books. On books that are priced this way, I'll either borrow a copy from the library or pirate it.

And 1984 is out of copyright in many non-US countries. It's on Project Gutenberg.

Given that, and its subject matter, I was amused by Amazon's remote removal of it. That's the strongest case for DRM removal I can think of.

by Larry Enright: https://sites.google.com/site/...
https://www.amazon.com/Jennife...
"In 2096, Deever MacClendon creates Jennifer, the first proto-conscious cybernetic processor. It is hyper-intelligent, aware, and evolving. Deever wants to use his creation for the good of all, to help fix a broken world, but knowing what a powerful weapon it could be in the wrong hands, he hides it. When his secret is uncovered, he is forced to plunge into a high-tech morass of deception and treachery to avoid catastrophe and save a world where humans are no longer the most intelligent species."

A fun read!

https://www.amazon.com/Katadyn...

Last year non-profits and private businesses invested 2.3 BILLION dollars to basic research. Source: http://www.sciencephilanthropy... Also, an economist recently did an inflation-adjusted comparison of basic RND expenditures before and after 1960's (when American government got REALLY into Science expenditures) guess what? We had MORE money being spent on RND before the government got involved than we did 50 years later. Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

So companies DO spend money on basic research and there is evidence that they spent more in the past than they did once government got involved. This actually makes a lot of sense. If i was running a company that built nuclear reactors, and I was considering investing in fusion tomahawk reactors, but then read in the newspaper that the Government was investing 2.5 billion into fusion reactors, why would i "waste" my precious RnD money if the government is already doing it? In fact, the worst case scenario from such a hypothetical is because of political influences, the government spends the 2.5 billion not on a fusion reactor most likely to succeed, but a less promising model, being proposed by a CEO that's golf buddies with a few senators. After 2.5 billion dollars and 4 years the research program has dismal results, and because of that, no nuclear reactor companies will invest in fusion research for another 10 years.

as for the folks at the NIH, i'm personally not a fan due to the fact that they have been stonewalling medical cannabis research for years, and funded junk science to try and prove that cannabis, ecstasy, and psilosybin mushrooms cause brain damage/schizophrenia. I will quote my source directly on why the NIH research is only 12.5% useful:

For every 100 research projects, only half lead to published findings. Of those 50, half have significant design flaws, making their results unreliable. And of those 25, half are redundant or unnecessary because of previous work. That’s how you get to 12.5 percent. Source: https://nihrecord.nih.gov/news...

Uhh... no. I do not serve the military. I am extremely anti-war. My opposition to the State Department is I see it as an extension of the Neo-Cons (you know, the group that controlled George Bush and pursued military intervention in Iraq?) I equate "State Department " with "War Department" or the "Department of promising money to countries that do what we want, and threatening military action against those who don't" And though i am NOT A TRUMP SUPPORTER, i am very mad at the state departments attempts to thwart his negotiations for peace with Russia [this is my personal interpretation of recent events, yours may be different, reporting on this issue has been dismal from both mainstream and underground press]

I do not like the knee-jerk reaction to call myself ignorant. People are exposed to wildly different information sources, philosophies, and editorial opinions throughout their lives. I believe my opinions are founded on a solid ground of research, i have just been exposed to different information sources, philosophies , and interpretations of recent events than you have.

If only Amazon made available a command line converter for free, right? They could call it, say KindleGen.

... yes, and at that point they've effectively argued that to release content in one medium, one must necessarily release content in all mediums. do the blind and deaf perchance require braille as well and a mail delivery of a transcription of a purely audio base.

Once transcribed to electronic text form, there are reasonable automated translators to convert Braille ASCII to contracted Braille for convenient rendering on dot-less Braille technology such as a Refreshable Braille Display (aka RBD) kind of like this one available with free shipping on Amazon...

There is no need to kill trees and use snail-mail in the modern era...

(yes, I know you were attempting to be facetious, and you will no doubt up your ante to those with even more limiting disabilities)

Older people - of which I am one, are accustomed to being able to share books. Book clubs, used book stores, sharing your favorite new read with a friend is part of the culture. The notion that you pay once and can never share with someone - yet pay close to the same price as paper - is both insulting and greedy.

You haven't priced ebooks lately. Most of them are considerably more expensive than having a physical copy shipped to you. Take for instance the classic 1984. A paperback copy can be bought brand new including shipping for $6.51. On Kindle, it is 50% more, at $9.99. I love my Kindle, but I refuse to pay the premium price that publishers are charging for the books. On books that are priced this way, I'll either borrow a copy from the library or pirate it.

You mean a book like The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein?

Umm.. this was done 30 years ago in this famous book:

https://www.amazon.com/Peoplew...

Read something, you putz.

Darker mornings mean kids are on the streets in the dark. That's the reality of today.

It's been the reality since streets were invented. And it used to be far more common for kids to walk to school - I walked to school from 2nd through 8th grade, through a small, densely-populated city, to schools that were nearly a mile away.[1] What's your point?

[1] Yes, in the snow, when there was some, but not enough to cancel classes. Yes, there were hills. It was quite pleasant, actually. We'd all be better off if we lived in a less dangerist[2] society and kids still walked to school.

[2] Beware Dangerism!

The article is based on a lie. It states that tablets killed the netbook. Cheap laptops (barely more than the price of netbooks, and eventually cheaper and better spec'ed than netbooks) killed it.

As a reference, dell currently has a 14" 2GB 1366x768 machine that is probably fine for linux for $150. A google search turned up the weight at 3.8lbs. That is just slightly heavier than the HP stream 13.3 I bought my mother a couple years ago, and that now runs linux. (Note to self: do not buy hp again.) I considered the stream very portable, and so did my mom, so it seems a decent weight.

As a comparison I pitched a dell inspiron mini 9 awhile back (it was basically dead). It weight around 2.5 lbs and had about a 5 hour battery life compared to apparently around 8 hours for the newer laptop. (Both dell numbers.)

So basically you get another gigabyte of ram, a screen 5" bigger, and performance what around 3x probably, but you have to carry around another 1.3 pounds. I'm not sure I'd call that a lack of progress. The dell mini 9 if it was still around would be dog slow, even with linux, though I suppose they could have updated it with a newer CPU.

I suppose my question to myself is, would I buy another 9" netbook instead of a the 14" dell? I'm thinking not. I'd rather have the more readable screen, even at the cost of the 1.3 pounds.

Still if you really wanted to, a quick search on Amazon does turn up one legit netbook though. link Ship time is apparently 2-4 weeks, and your limited to 32GB of storage, which isn't really enough by the time windows 10 updates itself, but you could go with linux. No idea if the 2-4 weeks means that you will really get it if you order it or not. 13hrs 2.2 pounds..

she would have to bear the cost of around €900

A fair policy would be that she only bears the cost if the meter is accurate.

Also, it is not that hard to test your own meter. Turn everything off. Make sure the meter is reading zero watts. Then turn on one device at a time, and measure the power bump. Use a Kill-o-Watt or other plug-in meter to measure what the device is using at the wall socket. If there is really a 5 fold discrepancy, that should be really easy to verify.

Look at what just happened with Apple and Samsung. They both had significant problems with their product releases because they were trying to make smartphones that were thinner and had more functionality. Apple had a case warp problem and the S8 was an incendiary device.

Consumers don't give a rat's ass about "thinner" at this point. Given a choice between a thin phone with a shorter batter life and a fatter phone with a longer use time, 99% of the public would want more talk time. But the public doesn't get that choice because Apple and Samsung are engaged in a pissing contest on design aesthetics.

If you don't think this is true, consider the market in battery packs for smart phones. Right now on Amazon there are 22,828 listings for external power for phones. People are carrying around another device just to keep their phones working.

So there is a market for a phone with a longer battery life. This is just one approach. If the smartphone manufacturers had a clue they would be competing on the real world use case of how long the phone works without needed to plug in somewhere. If there was any actual competition in the market this would happen, but effectively it's a duopoly between Samsung and Apple, at least outside of Chine. So we're stuck.

https://www.amazon.com/Cambio-...

I see things like that all over the place. Tablets with keyboards and touchpads. After I bought a "Pure" tablet I never understood why anyone would buy another one.

Also seeing as you can usually buy these for under a hundred dollars they make great alternatives to microcontrollers like the raspberry pi.

They're called Chromebooks now. There are dozens of options from $199 to $500. Pick the one you like the best and install Crouton on it. Here's my personal favorite - quad core N3160 Intel CPU, 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, 1080p 14" IPS (yes, IPS) display, 12+ hour battery life, a trackpad that's better than it has any right to be and ALL ALUMINUM construction for comfortably under $300.

Every battery is removable if you own a screwdriver, this is a non-issue. Especially given the battery lives on laptops. Who is using a laptop for over 10 hours without being near a charger? 0.1% of the market, maybe.

Great list! However you missed the one quintessential CS book.

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Actually, I didn't miss it. GEB used to be on my list. But I removed it. To really appreciate the book, you need to already have a foundational knowledge of completeness, recursion, complexity, emergent phenomena, etc. But it isn't such a good book for learning those topics in the first place. Non-tech people can enjoy reading the book while not even realizing how much is whoosing over their head.

Great list! However you missed the one quintessential CS book.

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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It's 2017, and /. STILL can't properly display Unicode?! GÃdel *sigh*

There isn't enough time for mentoring in a large group for three hours. By all means have a handout with sites/articles and books. There are some good suggestions like Code Complete, but you don't have time for that either. Start out by reading this: 201 Principles of Software Development and put together a narrative on how to develop requirements, how tests are based on requirements, what makes a good developer, etc.

If they are new programmers, probably they need more than just programming skill, they need skill acting like a professional. The Clean Coder does a really good job with that.
For programming skill, I'm going to suggest Zero Bugs and Program Faster. That book tries to change the way people think about code.

On the practical side, there's no substitute for looking at good code. Assuming you're a good programmer, this would mean code review is one method. Have him review your code and find mistakes. He'll think he's trying to catch you, but he'll learn a lot doing it. Then you can review his code, too.

Another good mentoring technique is unit tests. They show you the kinds of things the programmer is thinking about when they test. So you can look over the tests in code review and say, "hey, you forgot to test this aspect." Ideally you'll want him/her to be thinking of every possible test case, even if he/she doesn't actually write out the test.

Another thing is to treat the younger person with respect. Sometimes if you say, "Oh you did that wrong" they will automatically assume, "he hates me" and put themselves in an adversarial stance, which is not helpful for anyone. Look for things that they do that you really respect, and point them out.

If they are new programmers, probably they need more than just programming skill, they need skill acting like a professional. The Clean Coder does a really good job with that.
For programming skill, I'm going to suggest Zero Bugs and Program Faster. That book tries to change the way people think about code.

On the practical side, there's no substitute for looking at good code. Assuming you're a good programmer, this would mean code review is one method. Have him review your code and find mistakes. He'll think he's trying to catch you, but he'll learn a lot doing it. Then you can review his code, too.

Another good mentoring technique is unit tests. They show you the kinds of things the programmer is thinking about when they test. So you can look over the tests in code review and say, "hey, you forgot to test this aspect." Ideally you'll want him/her to be thinking of every possible test case, even if he/she doesn't actually write out the test.

Another thing is to treat the younger person with respect. Sometimes if you say, "Oh you did that wrong" they will automatically assume, "he hates me" and put themselves in an adversarial stance, which is not helpful for anyone. Look for things that they do that you really respect, and point them out.

Amazon tells you here what processors each instance type is running on. Looks like they are using Xeon, which really isn't that surprising.

Its a total scam dude, that is why Amazon is being sued over Prime. Log out and then look at the prices of several items, note them then log back in and see what the prices are. You'll find your Amazon Prime membership will often raise the prices on items so you aren't saving shit, its just a shell game and all you are really getting for the $100 a year is the streaming service.

Personally I don't think their content is worth anywhere near a c-note a year so I passed on it but YMMV.

The article you linked to doesn't match what you are saying.

The lawsuit claims:

Instead, the suits accuse Amazon of offering free shipping on items whose prices had been inflated to incorporate the cost of the shipping.

Well duh, Amazon doesn't try to hide that, items with "free" prime shipping often cost more than items without free shipping, or with paid shipping.

This is especially true with low-cost items. For example: Sharpie Permanent Markers, Ultra Fine Point, Black, 5 Count

Here's the pricing Amazon advertises:

Price: $5.79 FREE Shipping (3 days) for Prime members Details

Note: Available at a lower price from other sellers, potentially without free Prime shipping.

New (61) from $4.99 & FREE shipping.

I've tried the "Clear your cookies and check pricing" trick after other people have said that Amazon inflates prime prices, and haven't seen any difference for Amazon fulfilled products between what I see when I'm logged in and when I'm not. I'd be really surprised if Amazon actually did this since it would quickly be discovered and would cause a backlash.

Slowwwwly closing in on Amazon's X1 instance which offers 1952 GiB RAM and 128 vCPUs at ~$13.338 per hour (dynamic pricing). Google may catch up in a year or two.....

Kindle E-books.

https://www.amazon.com/Split-I... $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ad... $5.99

https://www.amazon.com/Juxtapo... $7.99

Kindle E-books.

https://www.amazon.com/Split-I... $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ad... $5.99

https://www.amazon.com/Juxtapo... $7.99

Kindle E-books.

https://www.amazon.com/Split-I... $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ad... $5.99

https://www.amazon.com/Juxtapo... $7.99

Get yourself one of these. Fill it with warm water instead of air.

Prepare to have your mind blown!

I just discovered something that surprised me greatly, and should please you as it does me. The lowly Celeron G3900 dual-core Skylake supports ECC - 64GB of ECC. It doesn't have hyperthreading, and only 2MB cache, but it DOES have full VT-x with EPT, and VT-d.

All for only $44.75.

ZFS WITH ECC memory (and therefore, a very expensive Xeon...)

Bullshit detector triggered. The socket 1151 Xeon e3-1220v5 is $206.49. It's a 4 core 3 GHz and supports up to 64 GB of DDR 3 or 4 ECC or non-ECC RAM.

I always thought Amos and Andy were really funny. They used to show them in reruns. Maybe TV Land will bring them back. Amazon still sells plenty of episodes. I liked the original Honeymooners too. Great stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A supervisor at IBM Research pointed this out to me -- a big challenge the farming villagers face in hiring Samurai is that they do not know what makes a good one...

A deeper issue in your post is discussed in "Have Fun at Work" by W. L. Livingston
https://www.amazon.com/Have-Fu...
"The practical abilities of engineers are buried and ignored by institutions whose sole objective is their own survival. Whereas the individual engineer has a publicly admitted duty of care for his fellow beings, institutions have no such concern, for their aims take no account of the human cost of their activities. This Handbook provides the recipe for the survival of the practical professional. The Handbook is offered to serve the needs of the professional engineer but it demands a much wider readership for it examines the interactions between the responsible individual and the supra-human entities that constrain and control him."

He provides examples of presenting suitable candidates to organizations desperately in need of them who the organizations reject in their ignorance of their true needs.

Bottom line: interviews are a game. They don't have to make sense. You chose (and also demonstrated) you did not want to play the game. So, they effectively screened you out as a non-game-player.

Of course, it is possible those organizations may collapse because of screening out such people -- but that tends to be the nature of most organizations and potentially self-limiting social processes. And those reasons are not all bad -- given that humans evolved in a context of living in cooperative hunter/gather tribes who in a sense were playing a collective game together.

See also:
https://aeon.co/essays/you-don...
"How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door ... One well-known firm that Mats Alvesson and I studied for our book The Stupidity Paradox (2016) said it employed only the best and the brightest. When these smart new recruits arrived in the office, they expected great intellectual challenges. However, they quickly found themselves working long hours on 'boring' and 'pointless' routine work. After a few years of dull tasks, they hoped that they'd move on to more interesting things. But this did not happen. As they rose through the ranks, these ambitious young consultants realised that what was most important was not coming up with a well-thought-through solution. It was keeping clients happy with impressive PowerPoint shows. Those who did insist on carefully thinking through their client's problems often found their ideas unwelcome. If they persisted in using their brains, they were often politely told that the office might not be the place for them. ..."

And:
http://disciplinedminds.tripod...
"Who are you going to be? That is the question.
In this riveting book about the world of professional work, Jeff Schmidt demonstrates that the workplace is a battleground for the very identity of the individual, as is graduate school, where professionals are trained. He shows that professional work is inherently political, and that professionals are hired to subordinate their own vision and maintain strict "ideological discipline."
The hidden root of much career dissatisfaction, argues Schmidt, is the professional's lack of control over the political component of his or her creative work. Many professionals set out to make a contribution to society and add meaning to their lives. Yet our system of professional education and employment abusively inculcates an acceptance of politically subordinate roles in which professionals typic

They've been available off the shelf for years now. They're listed on Amazon for pete sake.

That's where they went. Into production and onto shelves and online markets.

E.g, 7120P

7120X

They've been available off the shelf for years now. They're listed on Amazon for pete sake.

That's where they went. Into production and onto shelves and online markets.

E.g, 7120P

7120X