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Read "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton, which can be summed up in a Mark Zuckerburg quote: "[the four founders] drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in." Twitter as a technology company was an afterthought as the founders squabble over who would be CEO, spent investors' money out the wazoo and didn't bother finding a way to make money.

Can you tell us more about the backpack?

My backpack is the Kensington Contour Computer Backpack. I got mine for free from Google when I worked there in 2007. After ten years of daily use, I'm ready to replace it with another one.

The umbrella I got is the StormProof "Unbreakable" Travel Umbrella. The vendor had a two-for-one promotion and Amazon offered two-day free shipping when I ordered last winter. (The current promotion is ten umbrellas for the price of seven with two-day free shipping, which is mind boggling as these umbrellas are quite sturdy.) I keep one umbrella in my backpack, the other umbrella in the closet.

I haven't read "Space Cadet" by Robert A. Heinlein in decades. Should be required reading for the next generation.

I haven't read any books about the 1906 earthquake. I had read "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm" by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr. What made the 1907 panic so acute was that the U.S. supply of gold was on the West Coast for reconstruction after the 1906 earthquake and it took weeks for gold from London to arrive. When depositors demanded their money back in hard currency, the gold supply on the East Coast was extremely limited and it forced the financial titans to improvise.

Casey Neistat did a review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. The Silk Road was the black market of the Internet where you could have gotten anything. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.

https://youtu.be/7-nzTfv5IZY?t=88

Read "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton, which can be summed up in a Mark Zuckerburg quote: "[the four founders] drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in." Twitter as a technology was an afterthought as the founders squabble over who would be CEO, spent investors' money out the wazoo and didn't bother finding a way to make money.

I suppose 20 years ago "noreply@" wasn't really standardized as an email bit bucket for domains, so I'll give him a pass on that, but yes, in general it really doesn't seem a suitable email address today.

I worked at Fujitsu's WorldsAway virtual world division that had five Davids in 1997. If you ever read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, David #5's username was "da5id" and that pissed off all the other Davids. Especially since David #5 was a graphic artist and not a programmer.

Facebook is already doing that with advertising, taking your interactions with Facebook and combining it with third-party personal data to track you on the Internet. Read that in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author sold his engineers and company to Twitter and got hired by Facebook in a three-way deal.

You would think that the exploding batteries would have reduced Samsung's headcount sooner. Bad enough that the Galaxy Note Fan Edition is a refurbished Note 7 (presumably without exploding battery). If you're carrying spare batteries on the airplane, don't forget to carry them in an explosion-proof bag.

It doesnt matter. I have the same as a Tesla car I ride the electric express bus in slicicone valley on highway 101 and its great with wifi included so I can check my affiliate amazon link and my revenue stream when Im on the bus same as tesla car autodrive pilot. Im also in talks with Elon Musk to put amazon affiliuate links in tesla car so even better revenue stream.

These shoes are also great to drive tesla car, you can get black shoe for the office and white shoe for tesla car:
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Leanus Potsmokering is actually a friend of mine he is a really nice guy like me he likes windows better we have join revunu stream me and him he is working on an amazon affiliate link built into system day it boots faster so more revenu streams and faster payup.

Eventually we even got to have google adsense built into system day slashdot will transparently funnel money direct in our revunue streams. Great guy he must keep up with the great work. Cheers Linard!!!

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Im also prparing for this right now my amazon affiliate link revenue stream go bigger every day I will have to deal direct with central bank soon. -creimer

Here's your Amazon fix for the day: "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm" by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr. Everyone loves to bitch and moan about the central bank. What everyone forgets was that the US economy had a depression every 25 years prior to the 20th century. The 1907 panic demonstrated the need for a central bank, but those lessons were soon forgotten until the 1929 crash and the Great Depression made reforms necessary.

I prefer the New Balance 623v3Training Shoes in black for the office and in white for the gym. I've been wearing this brand for 30+ years.

I prefer the New Balance 623v3Training Shoes in black for the office and in white for the gym. I've been wearing this brand for 30+ years.

This has to be a troll...right?

Nope.

A fat 47 year old man in a studio with a Manga collection?

I recommend reading "A Drifting Life" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a graphical memoir of the craft after World War II to the 1960's.

But which dictionary had you agreed on before starting play?

We had a copy of The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish Dictionary, and

This book is on my reading list: "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries" by Kory Stamper. The author recently had an opinion piece in The New York Times, and The New York Times previously had an article on her workplace, Merriam-Webster.

I'm waiting for eight track tapes to make a come back. It is, after all, the 40th anniversary of "Smokey and The Bandit". I need to get my Jerry Reed on the road.

Last night I finished reading "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton. There's a quote by Mark Zuckerburg that the Twitter founders "drove a clown car that feel into a gold mine." They played musical chairs for the CEO for first few years and the current CEO is a Steve Jobs wannabe. Unbelievable.

These days I only have three O'Reilly dead tree books on my shelf: "Learning The Bash" by Cameron Newham, "Mastering Algorithms with C" by Kyle Loudon, and "Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made" by Andy Hertzfeld.

Two out of three books are still useful. When I go to Silicon Valley Comic Con next year, I'll have Steve Wozniak sign the Revolution book (he wrote the forward). I couldn't afford this year since he was raising money for a dog park charity by charging $100+ for his signature.

These days I only have three O'Reilly dead tree books on my shelf: "Learning The Bash" by Cameron Newham, "Mastering Algorithms with C" by Kyle Loudon, and "Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made" by Andy Hertzfeld.

Two out of three books are still useful. When I go to Silicon Valley Comic Con next year, I'll have Steve Wozniak sign the Revolution book (he wrote the forward). I couldn't afford this year since he was raising money for a dog park charity by charging $100+ for his signature.

These days I only have three O'Reilly dead tree books on my shelf: "Learning The Bash" by Cameron Newham, "Mastering Algorithms with C" by Kyle Loudon, and "Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made" by Andy Hertzfeld.

Two out of three books are still useful. When I go to Silicon Valley Comic Con next year, I'll have Steve Wozniak sign the Revolution book (he wrote the forward). I couldn't afford this year since he was raising money for a dog park charity by charging $100+ for his signature.

The problem with Marissa Mayer, as mentioned in "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards, employees will always find ways to work around her while appearing to do what she wanted. The jock culture at Uber may outwardly change if she became CEO but it would probably persist behind her back and cause other problems..

One of the topics discussed in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez was how many users Facebook could have from a population of 7B people. Probably about 3.5B users (give or take). If Facebook currently has 2B users, they have 1.5B users to go after in more difficult to reach parts of the world. Once they hit 3.5B users, growth will stop and the business model outdated.

Before Dave Cutler designed the kernel for Windows NT, he had previously lead the VAX VMS kernel design team.

The story behind Dave Cutler and Windows NT was covered in "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" by G. Pascal Zachary. A good read. WinNT was developed the same time that Microsoft was still playing nice with IBM and OS/2.

Could you make more money in the same time pushing a mower?

The real money in landscaping is design. The smallest job that my older brother will accept is $25K to redo a backyard and build gazebo in a weekend.

Have you heard of my get rich quick scheme...er, side business.

Have you ever read "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" by Chris Anderson?

The Forbin Project comes to mind.

My personal favorite from that era is the 1977 movie, "Demon Seed," based on a novel by Dean Knootz, about a husband who builds an AI to control his house and the AI traps his wife to impregnate her. AIs will go from sex maniacs to homicidal killers in popular culture a few years later.

If you interested in the early history of Linux, read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody. This is a great read and one of my favorite Linux book.

If you interested in the early history of Linux, read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody. This is a great read and one of my favorite Linux book.

Facebook is already doing something similar to that with advertising, taking your interactions with Facebook and combining it with third-party personal data to track you on the Internet. Read that in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author sold his engineers and company to Twitter and got hired by Facebook in a three-way deal.

Seriously, this is just begging for an ad from Cisco

"Cisco Routers for the Desperate: Router and Switch Management, the Easy Way" by Michael W. Lucas.

Marissa Mayer should go to Uber. From what I've read in "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards, she had a reputation for getting things done at Google. Success at one company doesn't always translate into success at a different company. Maybe her experience at Yahoo was fluke and she could do a U-turn at Uber.

Silicon Valley is the high 90's this week. Power went out yesterday for a few hours, making the afternoon heat unbearable without the fans. Still trying to figure out where to put another fan in the Cougar QBX Mini-ITX case, as the SSD and HDD run ten degrees higher than my fileserver with six HDDs and seven fans. This case is supposed to have enough room for a regular PSU, a dual-slot GPU and a water cooler radiator. I don't have either and there isn't enough room for my fat fingers.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/874112440379744257/

Is "Explodes" a metaphor or a prescient description of the future under, "A.I."?

I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories from the early 1980's, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. The only thing that almost exploded was the nuclear bomb that the military installed just in case the AI went kablooey.

Casey Neistat did a review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.

https://youtu.be/7-nzTfv5IZY?t=88

I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. Be careful about embracing the AI. The AI just might embrace back.

As a general rule for my side business, all data resides on the file server and the backup hard drive in the Red Hat Linux box. I'm not overly concern about my inexpensive laptop or gaming rig being stolen. The file server and RHL box are locked down with Kensington cable locks. This, of course, doesn't prevent a determined thief from stealing these systems. It does deter the casual thief who is looking to get in and out in a hurry.

I was fascinated by the Colossal Cave when I read "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Stephen Levy as a teenager in 1984. The only text adventure game I ever played was The Legend of The Red Dragon when I ran WildCat! BBS at college in the mid-1990's.

You can always get the Atari Flashback 7 Classic Game Console. I would be much interested in an Atari 5200/7800 retro console, two generations I skipped because I had a Commodore 64.

As opposed to what? I am pretty sure that describes all of Silicon Valley.

I've read a lot of Silicon Valley books over the years. All of them don't describe going to a MILF party in the Palo Alto hills where older women look for younger men, boinking the marketing girl in the utility closet at a company event, or cruising the hipster bars for pickups as "Chaos Monkeys" does. The only book that comes closest is "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter Culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff, which goes into the SF Bay Area drug and nudist subcultures.

If you're interested in the sausage making of online advertising with user data, check out "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, an engineer who sold his engineers and company to Twitter while going to work at Facebook. Be forewarned that the author takes you through the sleazy side of Silicon Valley. Not for the faint of heart.

You're overlooking the fact that Steve Jobs did not want future Apple leaders to become Steve Jobs as there can only be one Steve Jobs. If Apple is going to have a future, it can't be shackled to what the founders did in the past. Tim Cook is not going to be Steve Jobs. That's mentioned in Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

Some of Marissa's "land grabbing" can be found in "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards.

The article is nice on pointing out problems but has zero answers. I recommend Activator, it outlines the same problems and gives solutions. http://amzn.to/2qHTDaM.

The "average" fees Amazon charges is ~0.06 per unit sold, so let's say your book costs them 4 cents - substantially below the average.

Please stop pulling numbers out of your ass. Since I'm not a KDP Select member that requires giving Amazon exclusive rights to sell my ebooks online, my royalty rate is $0.35 per copy. Smashwords royalty rate is $0.54 per copy. About 90% of my sales come from Smashwords. That's ~$365 to date for this ebook (not including the $20 for first serial rights).

Yeah, I can see now why you're planning to retire on this revenue stream.

Let's say that sales stay consistent for the next 30 years until I retire. My short story ebook could earn $11,000 during that time. That's not bad considering that short stories were published (paid) once and never seen again as the reprint market have ceased to exist over the last 50 years. I got ~60 published short stories, another ~30 short stories circulating for submission, and I can easily write four 5,000-word stories per year. Let's say I have 200 short story ebooks by the time I retire in 30 years, and they averaged $11,000 in sales each, my total income by retirement could be $2M+.

Here's pro tip: read The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson.

I've read Stephen King, and you sir, are no Stephen King.

You read his short stories as they were originally published in the titty magazines? Or did you read them in the short story collection books? Stephen King is well known for re-editing his short stories a dozen times for the reprint market before they're published in "final" book form. He even revised the first four volumes of The Dark Tower to fix all the plot holes he introduced over the decades and later included himself as a character in volumes five and six. Heck, he might even revise himself out of volumes five and six in the future.

Although he's famous for making cameos in movies and TV miniseries based on his novels, King had second thoughts after including himself as a character in the series. The author mentioned in an interview with fellow scribe Neil Gaiman for The Sunday Times that he would consider writing out the author proxy who appears in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower volumes.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/62981/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-dark-tower-series

Can you show where King didn't know what a past participle is, or if he uses run-on sentences?

Read "On Writing," where he confessed his literary sins and giving advice that he doesn't often follow himself.

But that doesn't sink in at all, does it?

That's because you're not looking at Stephen King from the perspective of an indie author.

I hope you didn't pay for that shit.

Looks like the asshat grabbed the passage from a sampler page. That is from the opening scene of "Sunday In The Park With Dawei," which was first published in the "Roboerotica" anthology in 2012.

I hope you didn't pay for that shit.

Looks like the asshat grabbed the passage from a sampler page. That is from the opening scene of "Sunday In The Park With Dawei," which was first published in the "Roboerotica" anthology in 2012.

Oh and if you think that all the licensed sets are crap, you clearly haven't seen sets like the 42056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters or 10179 Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon.

I've seen the Star Destroyer (the three-feet version) in more than a few Fortune 500 companies, usually hanging from the ceiling in the marketing department.