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Learning Elixir was a very refreshing and pleasing experience. The language, the tooling, the documentation are excellent, developper-friendly. The underlying OTP is powerful for making resilient and distributed applications.. The Phoenix framework is very well-made. Learning functional programming made me a better Python and perl programmer.. I used this online course, I recommend it:
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Get an AWS Cert, best study material is Udemy A Cloud Guru (Ryan Kroonenburg). I spent a few weeks on it, and passed my AWS cert, plus have a great introductory understanding of AWS cloud.

Seth Godin has a good course on udemy on how to be (or better: how to position yourself as) a freelancer.

https://www.udemy.com/seth-god...

Checkt it out, it's $50 but most say it's worth it. Moreover he sometimes has discount codes on his blog.

Look closely. Look again. Now you see it, right? Hint the second statement has the TLAs accidentally reversed. Here is some info from someone who isn't me.

There are already fantastic Android courses out there like this Android course.

About 39,000 students have been through it, and thousands of reviews and only $35 (once off payment, nothing to pay month).

60 hours of video training included!

Honestly, it's just pure greed by Google charging that much each month if you ask me.

See the post a couple of posts up, dumbass. Facts.

The newest tests I can find compare Linux (Ubuntu) versus Windows 8.1 but the numbers don't back up your statement. I quote "Laptop users can expect significantly less battery life using Ubuntu compared to Windows" and I found these results were the same on multiple systems according to the pages I perused.

The newest tests I can find compare Linux (Ubuntu) versus Windows 8.1 but the numbers don't back up your statement. I quote "Laptop users can expect significantly less battery life using Ubuntu compared to Windows" and I found these results were the same on multiple systems according to the pages I perused.

If you truly believe your particular flavor of Linux will get better battery life than Windows 10? Feel free to run your own tests and post video of the results. After all Windows 10 Insider is free for anybody to download, so is Linux, so it will cost you nothing but a bit of time to back up your assertion with hard data.

I personally can't stand Windows 10 but I have to give credit where credit is due and MSFT has gotten much better on battery life with their last couple of releases.

> Because YouTube is not a monopoly

In your mind, how much of the market does it take for youtube to qualify as a monopoly? Are you one of those sophists who says it isn't a monopoly as long as there is somebody else, anybody else, no matter how small their marketshare?

Because youtube has 94% of the market. And by the definition of most reasonable people that easily qualifies as a monopoly.

> it's not unreasonable or unfair of it to try to recover costs (or, gasp, make a profit) somehow.

They are making a profit, they are showing ads on the videos on youtube. This is above and beyond that and it is only for certain videos. They are doing price discrimination based on the content rather than their own costs. They make just as much money per play from a 30 second video of an elephant taking a dump as they do from a 30 second music video. But they are adding extra requirements to the music video.

In your geekheart you know that's unfair. The question isn't whether they can do it, clearly they can do it, the question is if we as their paying customers think it is fair (yes we pay with our personal information, if it weren't valuable google wouldn't have a market cap in the billions).

> Google is not such a huge market leader for video than Microsoft is for Desktop OS.

I am curious, what would you say microsoft's marketshare was? 80% 90% 95%?

Google has 96%
1B visitors/month versus vimeo's 60M visitors/month

And 3rd place is so small that nobody even cares how many visitors per month they have.

Bitcoin is well suited to micropayments. Mike Hearn has a micropayment scheme in his Bitcoinj implementation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244656.0 It's a rather elegant example of true innovation in this heavily researched topic (note that the NSF and DARPA funded research on digital currency in part to try and solve the massively high volume, low value transactions they anticipated the internet would require...for things like paying a very small amount for a very small but of content). Digital currency (pegged to the US dollar) used to be purchasable in the mid 1990's at a US bank. It flopped mostly because it came before anyone really did much payment via the Internet. The best private industry has come up with is the equivalent of handing over your private encryption keys (cc #) and putting a middle man in to skin off the top and attempt to control the fraud that results from this crazy design. If you want to truly learn something about the open source project called Bitcoin, take a look at btcedproject.org and the udemy course (you'll need an account...or you can login via Facebook like I just did here to post): https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-crypto/