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nextstepguy··on Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
i've already seen that. Try buying some products that are not 365 (the WF private label.) The march has already started and is accelerating. Consumers beware1
nextstepguy··on Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
Read the story about Amazon authorizing fake Chromecast devices to be sold, while blocking the real ones. Mind you the devices look exactly the same (minus better bandwidth.) Read some of the reviews from folks buying the imitation, knowing it wasn't the real deal, but nevertheless bought them because "where else could they buy from?". Those comments and now this make me wonder how strong Amazon has become to decide what consumers can buy or not.
nextstepguy··on DoorDash raises $535M, now valued at $1.4B
I swore not to use doordash anymore after a few bad experiences even if after placing a complain for each occurence I got $10 off the next order (resetting the fee and the tip.) Beside some of their fees are high. Mind you, I would still use them if the service was great. From incomplete orders to bad CS to cold food on arrival to even missing the basics of delivering location, I can't believe this is getting popular.
nextstepguy··on Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
Only second to the SICP book, but yeah, I agree. Fantastic read and timeless advices.
nextstepguy··on Go 1.10 Release Notes
There are no significant changes to the language specification

This is my least favorite part of the release.

nextstepguy··on Tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming
I wish the writer would have used a spell checker.
nextstepguy··on Monads in JavaScript
Taking that (free) class on coursera was an eye opener on all the things that are discussed in this article. Highly recommended:

https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive

nextstepguy··on A source for this picture?
I don't believe you can rate an app on the app store from the emulator itself. You need a device.
nextstepguy··on Machine learning for fraud detection
I ditched Wells Fargo after getting lots of repeated calls at anytime of the day or night to verify the last transactions on my account. Based on the same transactions, they could figure out my most recent location and develop something that's a little more careful about the time/day of the week this automated calls were placed.
nextstepguy··on What the Head of Hiring at Google Doesn’t Understand About Skills
Google has such an arrogant culture for an ephemeral company built around the sole business to milk indirectly their customers with online advertisement.
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