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.
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 was always taught there were 10 types of people. I thought on slashdot this would be common knowledge...
The 10 types have never been explained on Slashdot. Probably because everyone thought it was common knowledge. My web page explains those types. That's why I get the advertising revenue for people visiting my website.
Nothing. This isn't the site for it though - this is a site where nerds discuss technical topics your are not qualified to intelligently comment on, and you are a spammer. What's wrong with spamming and annoying the shit out of people? Have you heard the word of Christ my friend? Oh, of course you have - I'm responding to a fat religious white trash moron. Here's some more promotion for you virginboy from the now thousands out there. Enjoy looking for your next job, and let's all hope that your self promotion on slashdot is visited when your current boss googles your name, finds you spend your day spamming forums, and looks at the pics that are associated with you. You know what's coming next - right? doxxxxxxing and emails to people you work with. Enjoy the fame APK, it'll never leave you for the rest of your sad fat life.
The city of San Francisco relocated all the graveyards to Colma after the 1906 earthquake, where the population of the dead outnumbers the living today.
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.
Mixed developments are common along the light rail lines and major transit routes in Silicon Valley. These typically have a concrete ground floor for retail and parking, and four stories of apartments or condos built from wood. I live off the Winchester light rail line. All the warehouse buildings that used to serve the canneries in San Jose are being replaced by mixed developments.
Many houses in the valley are built on 6" slabs. The replacement building for the McDonald's near my home has a one-foot concrete foundation with reinforced steel, conduits and drains. When they built the fire lanes for San Jose State University in the 1990's, the foundations were three-feet deep to handle the weight of multiple fire trucks.
The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View was built on landfill and fires broke out when concert goers lit up their joints.
In its opening year, a fan attending a Steve Winwood concert flicked a cigarette lighter and ignited methane that had been leaking from a landfill underneath the theatre. Several small fires were reported that season. After those incidents, the city of Mountain View commissioned methane testing studies to define the location of methane vapors emanating from the soil within the amphitheater. These tests were used in developing a design for improved methane monitoring and more efficient methane extraction to assure the amphitheater became safe as an outdoor venue. Ultimately, the lawn was removed, a gas barrier and methane removal equipment were installed, and then the lawn was re-installed.
A teenager in London got a hold off my debit card number, ordered makeup and bling from a small company in Texas, used a San Francisco storage facility for the billing address, and her actual street address for shipping. The transactions didn't get far as the safeguards came into play with the credit union on my end and PayPal on the vendor's end. I even filed a complaint with London PD. The credit union issued a new debit card and that was that.
I pay $15 per month for VPS web hosting at DreamHost and get "Let's Encrypt" certificates for free on my domains and subdomains. Other options included self-signed (free) and Comodo (paid) certificates.
I had no clue that Activision Blizzard was sucking on the "Candy Crush Saga" lollipop. Is that for the revenue stream and/or will there be a "Warcraft/StarCraft/Diablo Crush Saga" app in the future?
Slashdot Mirror
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.
I'm Creimer. I'm replying to myself in order to drum up interest in my humdrum posts.
I don't post AC. I also don't need to "drum up interest" for my comments. I got enough trolls doing that on my behalf. :P
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.
You do realize this won't stop if you keep replying to whoever keeps (successfully) trolling you, right?
Trolling? What trolling? This is a discussion that is worth every half-cent. ;)
This benchmark utility not only shows how fast the new AMD processors are but it also steals market share from Intel?
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 was always taught there were 10 types of people. I thought on slashdot this would be common knowledge...
The 10 types have never been explained on Slashdot. Probably because everyone thought it was common knowledge. My web page explains those types. That's why I get the advertising revenue for people visiting my website.
I haven't read "Space Cadet" by Robert A. Heinlein in decades. Should be required reading for the next generation.
Nothing. This isn't the site for it though - this is a site where nerds discuss technical topics your are not qualified to intelligently comment on, and you are a spammer. What's wrong with spamming and annoying the shit out of people? Have you heard the word of Christ my friend? Oh, of course you have - I'm responding to a fat religious white trash moron. Here's some more promotion for you virginboy from the now thousands out there. Enjoy looking for your next job, and let's all hope that your self promotion on slashdot is visited when your current boss googles your name, finds you spend your day spamming forums, and looks at the pics that are associated with you. You know what's coming next - right? doxxxxxxing and emails to people you work with. Enjoy the fame APK, it'll never leave you for the rest of your sad fat life.
You're boring me. Go away.
Also dont forget to click on my signature link and by book for better revenue stream.
That's so last week. Check the new signature link. ;)
at least it not on burial grounds.
The city of San Francisco relocated all the graveyards to Colma after the 1906 earthquake, where the population of the dead outnumbers the living today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/sports/football/the-town-of-colma-where-san-franciscos-dead-live.html
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.
you creimer stalker/trolls are just mad because your lives are boring and unfulfilling
I find it cute that my trolls have trolls.
Mixed developments are common along the light rail lines and major transit routes in Silicon Valley. These typically have a concrete ground floor for retail and parking, and four stories of apartments or condos built from wood. I live off the Winchester light rail line. All the warehouse buildings that used to serve the canneries in San Jose are being replaced by mixed developments.
You are a fucking idiot.
This is California. People are always smoking weed during a concert. The only people who think otherwise are fucking idiots.
Many houses in the valley are built on 6" slabs. The replacement building for the McDonald's near my home has a one-foot concrete foundation with reinforced steel, conduits and drains. When they built the fire lanes for San Jose State University in the 1990's, the foundations were three-feet deep to handle the weight of multiple fire trucks.
It's no different than San Francisco building on top of landfill from the 1906 earthquake.
The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View was built on landfill and fires broke out when concert goers lit up their joints.
In its opening year, a fan attending a Steve Winwood concert flicked a cigarette lighter and ignited methane that had been leaking from a landfill underneath the theatre. Several small fires were reported that season. After those incidents, the city of Mountain View commissioned methane testing studies to define the location of methane vapors emanating from the soil within the amphitheater. These tests were used in developing a design for improved methane monitoring and more efficient methane extraction to assure the amphitheater became safe as an outdoor venue. Ultimately, the lawn was removed, a gas barrier and methane removal equipment were installed, and then the lawn was re-installed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreline_Amphitheatre#Built_on_a_landfill
A teenager in London got a hold off my debit card number, ordered makeup and bling from a small company in Texas, used a San Francisco storage facility for the billing address, and her actual street address for shipping. The transactions didn't get far as the safeguards came into play with the credit union on my end and PayPal on the vendor's end. I even filed a complaint with London PD. The credit union issued a new debit card and that was that.
I pay $15 per month for VPS web hosting at DreamHost and get "Let's Encrypt" certificates for free on my domains and subdomains. Other options included self-signed (free) and Comodo (paid) certificates.
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
always down vote self promotion in signatures.
What's wrong with self-promotion?
Is this one of the H1-B ragheads we were told we can't live without?
Son of immigrants.
I had no clue that Activision Blizzard was sucking on the "Candy Crush Saga" lollipop. Is that for the revenue stream and/or will there be a "Warcraft/StarCraft/Diablo Crush Saga" app in the future?
It would have increased the cost of those TDK Silver 6 packs I'd buy.
I bought a lot of cassette packs to store data when I had a Commodore VIC-20 in the early 1980's.