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Why the fuck do people buy "gaming" headsets?
they are overpriced as fuck and sound like shit, it's just some cool edgy plastic things and some LED.
Are "gaming" headsets for 14 year olds?
The same reason people buy anything; their corporate overlords convince them they want to.
>>54295738
You buy food because your corporate overlords convince you that you have to?
>>54295710
You just answered your own question.
Is getting a VPN worth it for torrenting?
>decisions are binary and my specific circumstances have nothing to do with the decision making process
Go away.
>>54295378
Deep
>>54295369
Unless you live in Germany, not unless you torrent very recent releases.
I'm trying to install steam OS on an old ass computer but I can't get it to work. I just keep getting this. I'm using the no ueif tutorial on reddit idk what's wrong...
>>54293509
Welcome to /g/ tech support please take a ticket.
>steamOS
Back to 9gag
>>54293509
>steam OS
Just install ubuntu and
>apt-get install steam
How do I turn my programming skills into money?
I've been programming for about 15 years -- ever since I had access to a computer. Websites/ games/ simulations/ bots/ plugins/ apps/ everything. But I have absolutely zero business sense. I work in a shitty bar and get abused by drunks on a daily basis. It finally dawned on me that I should turn programming into profit. I have no CS degree. I merely code because I love (am obsessed with) computers and mathematics.
I was thinking of selling adobe plugins or making websites for people. Perhaps getting into trading algorithms or using statistical analysis to develop a smart betting system? Should I just look for a programming job? Who's going to hire a hobbyist with no degree? (well I have a degree but it's in history therefore useless)
What do you guys do? Tell me what the fuck to do! Pls
>>54292705
I found a way to turn programming skills into money
Now you may just be surprised
I got a job
>>54292730
Thanks but what kind of job and what did you do to get it?
fake it till you make it and apply for shit that really interests you .
i never had a university degree but applied for jobs at stuff that interested me with 10+ years experience in systems programming, that in reality probably was 3 years of systems programming and 7 years of garbage random shit from web over java to .net. in addition to that i had 10 real years of random computing skills from my childhood + random tech skill set stuff.
my experience is that there is no programmers job advertised as such and they either search for total random bullshit skill set as a job description or not at all. most also want to filter through university degree shit. ignore that and apply anyway if you think you fit the field, if its a good company they won't get many applications and consider you anyway if you give them reason and motivation.
if you want to invest a little money and speed up the process just use a headhunter.
recommended fields to develop for:
> science (research projects are very open and at least in my country actually use linux, which means you will do c/c++/lisp)
> movie industry (all the hobbit stuff was done on linux and they always can use someone that knows what hes doing and improves their tools)
> cars, key/tool makers, heavy industry in general (may be very conservative and QA is a must, but you can get paid under union rules and thus fairly, again my country. here open source is a hit and miss)
> shipping industry, transportation bushiness (hit and miss)
> spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace (science again, why not crash a rocket for some rich guy)
apply apply apply. if they recject you its their loss, most organization want people but hate searching/filtering for them because they want to do stuff. if you take the initiative you have done half their work for them. programming is a skill like no other that can be molded to fit almost any field.
suff i would avoid like fire though: office automation, finance, web stuff, apps, cloud etc.
>google my email address
>find my email address and password posted on some iranian forum
is such a thing even possible
thankfully ive changed my password since, how did these fuckers get it though?
Because you have/had malware installed, windowsfag
>>54292500
Nice dubs. Have you had the email for a long time? Is it possible it was leaked from somewhere like Adobe or some random website?
>>54292515
it's a pretty old email address but it was posted on the forum about 8 months ago
along with thousands of other peoples, they are all paypal accounts by the looks of it
they paypal account i had tied to that email address got locked a while ago because (presumably) those people were trying to access it
not sure if i even had any bank info tied to that paypal though so im not concerned
>tfw you don't know how to get on to private trackers
You need invites then upload before you can download.
Truly a cuck's job
>he use private trackers
just use rutracker. it has most things. also most isps wont care about trackers like this because they're not too popular
What is /g/'s favourite video editor?
I've been using Sony Vegas for a while. I wanna try other video editors too.
>>54292162
Gimp. Frame by frame to preserve freedom.
>>54292631
>not using ffmpeg from the command line
Pff
Adobe Premiere and After Effects CC.
So I always figured this book was a meme pushed by /dpt/ as a way to feel special about their secret hipster language that went out of date thirty years ago
Fuck me sideways was I wrong, LISP is fucking amazing and any /gentoo/men who haven't read this thing yet get on it
Lisp Thread fagots, show me dem parentheses
>>54291335
It is fun and a good learning book, but LIPS seems like the least useful language possible.
>>54292045
>seems like the least useful language possible.
read Paul Graham.
No seriously we should argue here. The defining trait of a Lisp (it's an entire family of PLs) is its simple, uniform or almost uniform syntax. By contrast, other languages tend to have special case, complex constructs, and operator precedence rules. I don't think there's any programming task that can't fundamentally be accomplished by any Lisp whatsoever (Turing-completeness, yadi yada), which would make Lisps inherently useless, but feel free to disagree.
With that out of the way, this naturally spawns the long-lasting debate of simple vs complex notation rules, not only Lisp vs others, but also Polish notation vs mainstream notation, and so on. I'm a RPNfag myself (also TIL that my favorite calculator won't be allowed at exam, FML) and a Lisper, but all tastes can be found in nature, so let's also put personal preference aside.
I would argue that, while special cases in syntax (how our widespread algebra operator precedence is adjusted in order to express polynoms without parenthesis, for example) can appeal to intuition - that's what we often hear, be it true or false: infix notation is supposedly more intuitive - it gets stuck very quickly in its own bias, with people unlikely to want to use some constructs, or think some ideas, because they appear ugly in this context (Saphir-Wolff if you hear me). Esthetics and intuition is not what should be used in programming (sorry girls), what we want is intelligence: the ability to explore concepts and their relations. This requires being able to express findings clearly in an unbiaised lang. Lisps do very well because they can be extended with macros, to the point of eager versus lazy evaluation, go do that in Java or Haskell.
>>54291335
>show me dem parentheses
Here's some Clojure code. Once upon a time, an anon on /dpt/ had a self refering definition (electrical nodes pointing to each other) and wanted a way to "modify" it afterwards and "update" other nodes accordingly. I suggested doing a fixpoint function instead.(defn gates [self]
{"third" 1,
"second" 1,
"first" (delay (+ @(get @self "second") @(get @self "third")))})
(defn gates2 [self]
(assoc (gates self) "second" 0))
(defn fix&force [f]
(let [self (promise)]
(deliver self (f self))
(into {} (for [[k v] @self] [k @v]))))
(println (fix&force gates))
(println (fix&force gates2))
Then I abstracted the pattern into a "fix" macro. Very convenient
Technology Cringe
>>54288897
If he can afford it and it makes him happy (without bothering me) why would I care?
>>54288959
This. Let idiots be idiots.
>>54288977
>mfw this happened to my mac after not visiting the desktop for a month
What the actual fuck apple, why would you let them save like that
Convince me that anyone other than pedophiles, terrorists, and other criminals need privacy in 2016.
I don't buy Snowden's argument that it's like free speech. That's retarded. You can't participate in democracy without free speech, so you're always going to need it.
You don't need privacy. Privacy was a temporary luxury that existed from like 1900 to 2000 between the time of urbanization and the creation of the internet. Before 1900, everyone lived in small towns where there was no privacy. After 2000, the government spied on everyone so there was no privacy. If you don't break any laws, you have absolutely nothing to fear from this arrangement. Lots of you argue that if they bring up your porn history or something they can blackmail you, but no one is going to give a fuck what kind of legal porn you watch because it's 2016. If you are a law abiding citizen, you don't need privacy, especially not from your government. Privacy enables criminals to do their crimes in secret. Why do you think that 99% of the people who use Tor are criminals? Is their privacy more important than public safety?
theres no point in arguing this because privacy isn't going anywhere. it's just becoming harder to obtain for the plebs.
>>54286931
IT'S OVER
AMD IS BANKRUPT AND FINISHED
Not understanding that they store your details.
Which means if 10 years down the road they want to make a list of potential threats, theyll black list you because you once shitposted "Hitler did nothing wrong" on 4chan.
Best three available distros right now.
>Fedora 23 (Gnome)
>Ubuntu 16.04 (MATE)
>Linux Mint 17 (Debian edition with Cinnamon)
Prove me wrong.
>>54286655
don't lewd the miko
>>54286655
>Ubuntu 16.04 (MATE)
yeah nah. the 90's called and want their DE back
>>54286721
You must have not taken a look at it in a while.
Here's the thing I don't get:
Romania for example, has huge speeds for relatively cheap. If million people had 1Gbit Internet how the fuck would that work? Even dividing with 100 to account for average utilisation over them all gives you 10,000 Gbit. How the fuck do you get that sort of bandwidth? DE-CIX, the biggest fucking Internet exchange has 5Tbps peak throughput.
Do they have tens of local exchanges and keep only local traffic at those speeds or what? Do they have huge data centers for caching so the traffic stays local?
Everything about large amount of users with huge speeds is fucking confusing. Any recommended reading?
Bump
Living in Bulgaria, can confirm: internet is FAST and CHEAP. Like 100Mb/s for $20 with cable TV, hbo go subscription and whatnot. I have absolutely no fucking clue how is this even possible. Someone explain pls.
P.S: I love it
don't forget that not all people are downloading and seedings torrents at max speed 24/7
at least 90% will be normies who only use it for 200KB jpegs
Airplanes are technology.
But aren't they just a huge waste of resources? How many passenger flights are really NEEDED on Earth every day?
They're fast.
There's value in speed and that's what aeroplanes provide.
>>54286239
What's the point of hundreds of flights of tourists burning kerozine just to go to the other side of the globe for a week? Isn't that kind of absurd?
>>54286283
How stupid are you?
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/04/28/delivering-personalized-search-experiences-in-windows-10-through-cortana/
> Unfortunately, as Windows 10 has grown in adoption and usage, we have seen some
> software programs circumvent the design of Windows 10 and redirect you to search
> providers that were not designed to work with Cortana. The result is a compromised
> experience that is less reliable and predictable. The continuity of these types of task
> completion scenarios is disrupted if Cortana can’t depend on Bing as the search
> provider and Microsoft Edge as the browser. The only way we can confidently deliver
> this personalized, end-to-end search experience is through the integration of Cortana,
> Microsoft Edge and Bing – all designed to do more for you.
> Starting today, to ensure we can deliver the integrated search experience designed for
> Windows 10, Microsoft Edge will be the only browser that will launch when you search
> from the Cortana box.
TL;DR from now on when you use Cortana to search it'll only use Bing and Edge, regardless of system settings.
Yes, Microsoft please imitate Google when they integrated Youtube with Google+. That worked so well for them after all.
>>54286157
Good thing I never use Cortana then.
>Having online search enabled
For what purpose? Using your browser of choice is too hard?
>Cortana
Who uses this shit anyway?
What's the oldest technology you currently own?
My PC is from 2011.
A Galaxy S3, though it's running Android 6.
I usually ditch my old tech.
>>54286140
G4 tower.
>>54286140
my car has wheels, invented in ancient sumeria
>6k bc
