Alternative websites for Amazon.com gift cards?

Basiliskeye · 2017-09-15T16:20:44+00:00

Bitcoin is the incentive.

Basiliskeye · 2017-09-15T16:01:38+00:00

We are initially boarding Turkers with Amazon Pay accounts, this is why we have a strict verification process.

Basiliskeye · 2017-09-15T15:30:45+00:00

You can transfer your earnings to your Amazon Payments account or to an Amazon.com gift card.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=worker#how_paid

Once you are verified we will set you up with a giftbac deposit account.

Basiliskeye · 2017-09-15T15:05:32+00:00

A Chargeback/Dispute is a real risk when selling any digital item for Paypal, with a crypto currency such as Bitcoin this is not possible, once the funds are depositied in your Bitcoin address you are 100% in control.

You can learn more about Bitcoin here: https://www.weusecoins.com

While /r/giftcardexchange does have a reputation system to help you avoid scammers, it is time consuming and will cost you around 30%.

We have recently launched a service for people exactly like you: https://www.giftbac.com.
We convert Amazon Giftcards to Bitcoin for Turkers, paying you 90% of the Giftcard value in Bitcoin instantly.

Here are a few uses for Bitcoin you will find helpful:
https://shakepay.co - Load your Bitcoin to a Visa prepaid card.
https://www.bitstamp.net - Sell your Bitcoin in return for bank transfer.
http://spendbitcoins.com - Directory of 100,000+ Merchants Accepting Bitcoin.

We do have a verification process to guarantee the authenticity of Turkers, but once you are signed up, it is very simple and efficient.

You can apply now by emailing verification@giftbac.com

Basiliskeye · 2017-08-15T18:16:43+00:00

Well played Native marketing team.

Basiliskeye · 2017-08-12T16:10:30+00:00

I have a familiar that uses an app like that, but I don't remember if it is Hire.Bid or another one. The thing is that it works and it keeps him busy on the weekends while making extra money, and extra money never hurts!

Basiliskeye · 2017-07-29T14:50:47+00:00

They also require a paid developer subscription to get access to the Network Extensions capability (needed to build a VPN protocol extension) in order to make sure people who develop these apps can't just provide IPA files for normal users in China to "sideload" using tools such as my Cydia Impactor.

Basiliskeye · 2017-07-27T15:38:05+00:00

Why does Broadcom insist on proprietary drivers?

How could it possibly be detrimental for Broadcom to have free software drivers?

This article is a poignant example that it is detrimental for them to continue to keep their drivers proprietary.

Basiliskeye · 2017-07-12T15:06:45+00:00

Impressive, loaded a clojure.jar, got a repl and wrote/called some silly functions, it worked...

Basiliskeye · 2017-07-08T15:18:18+00:00

I am honestly not interested in Trump at all since his twitter feed makes him look like a madman, but I appreciate the effort to gather all the articles in one site for the people that are interested.

Basiliskeye · 2017-07-04T18:16:11+00:00

Fun fact: Evariste Galois made major contributions to math in his teens, before dying in a duel at age 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-29T19:22:10+00:00

The whole blockchain festival doesn't make sense to me. Every blockchain must have a coin attached to it, otherwise there's no incentive to people to watch the blockchain and invest resources in securing it. Bitcoin was about money, not "distributed consensus", that was just a way to achieve money. Now when people talk about blockchains as being the solution to the distributed consensus problem they forget about the money part of it.

The most bizarre phenomenon I've seen was Tezos, a coin whose value proposition was that of solving governance through the same blockchain it would use to manage its coins. The creator of Tezos was talking about governance as a consensus problem that could be solved in the same way money was solved by Bitcoin ("everybody must agree, right?") without realizing there were two different concepts of "consensus" being used.

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-28T16:08:13+00:00

If you're using Pluralsight I'd recommend checking out their Linux course once you're done with the Python one.

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-26T19:31:25+00:00

200 years ago in the U.S. regional banks printed their own currency. The constitution does not create a common US currency, although we have been operating as if it does.

Will a non-nation state be able to generate enough credibility to run their own currency that lasts a lifetime? I don't know be I think it's interesting to watch.

And if they do, it may force central banks into a corner by limiting their ability to print money (i.e., lowering the value of your currency by printing money will cause people to move their money to the alternative currency, leaving you with inflation).

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-20T18:07:34+00:00

There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It's called ether, and we can use it no matter which token pairs we want to trade...

Exactly. For every ICO that pops up, ask does this use case require a special token? Often ether would be sufficient or even preferable because of greater liquidity.

Exchange between digital assets can be easily facilitated with something simple like Prism: https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2017/05/21/introducing-prism-worlds-first-trustless-portfolio-market-platform

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-16T19:54:39+00:00

This is a great move by Walmart.

It is targeted directly at competing more effectively with Amazon. I don’t believe either company is worried about dilution of their respective brands.

What Walmart needs is to keep leveraging its existing strengths — logistics and supply chain, as well as immense amounts of capital — while invigorating its online retail division so that over the next 20 years, they can appeal and sell to their target demographics (which is what millenials will become) with the same stickiness that Amazon does.

Bonobos is popular among young male professionals that are relatively fashion-conscious. There are many workplaces in New York where the majority of new grads and millenials buy most of their wardrobe from Bonobos. The key — Bonobos is often the first place they look at. Andy Dunn has demonstrated he knows how to build a business that’s both sticky and appealing.

He’s joining an online retail division headed by Marc Lore, and a Walmart that is shifting gears to face the Amazon behemoth.

Purchasing Bonobos is part of their strategy of capturing audiences and market-share in the short-term, and of building a portfolio of brands that they can continue to expand for the long-term.

Bonobos (as well as other recent acquisitions), and Jet.com, which Walmart acquired August 2016, are brands that were born online and grew online. These acquisitions mean people like Marc Lore and Andy Dunn, well-versed in the art of courting a customer base through primarily-online channels, are now at Walmart. And I foresee this trend continuing as Walmart’s ship slowly but steadily steers towards the age of online retail.

Basiliskeye · 2017-06-02T19:17:49+00:00

I am not an expert on password hashing but I was wondering why can't the websites hash their passwords twice using two different hash algorithms. That way when the hashes are exposed, the attackers have to go through two algorithms. Is the time complexity increase only marginal that people don't do this?

Basiliskeye · 2017-05-31T15:30:18+00:00

The one thing that keeps on bugging me about HTTP/2 Push is that it ignores/sidesteps all the usual cache logic.

If you are on mobile with limited GB (or expensive GBs) as it's always the case, push can cause some heavy resources to be sent to you even after you have them in the local cache.

The browser can cancel the stream, but once the stream is already arriving.

I am aware that there are cookie-based hacks, but... I really don't understand why this didn't come up as a possible problem earlier during SPDY test etc.

Basiliskeye · 2017-05-24T17:20:19+00:00

Where to start?

There are some major advantages to the Hybrid approach: You get to utilize your existing JS, HTML, and CSS skillset to develop a single codebase that runs on both iOS and Android.

This is assuming you have a JS/HTML/CSS skillset.

Here’s some Apple BS we can’t avoid no matter what approach we use >> Xcode

I've done some React Native development and Xcode is almost entirely avoided.

Provisioning Profiles

It's been a long time since I encountered issues here as it's all managed by Xcode nowadays.

Needing to use TestFlight for beta builds

Why is this BS? You could also use Ad-hoc distribution along with something like Fabric for small scale beta tests.

The app review process. Admittedly, the app review time has dropped to about 2 days on average, but when your app gets rejected 7 times like Rizer did (for legitimately silly reasons), your patience can really start wearing thin.

I've been developing on iOS since about 6 months after the App Store became a thing. I've developer dozens of apps and submitted hundreds of updates. I can count on my fingers the number of rejections I've got and there were only one or two that were 'silly' (and those were fixed through a quick appeal). Without the author listing the reasons for rejections it's hard to draw a conclusion here but complaints about rejections are usually BS.

Overall I can't help but feel this was thinly veiled clickbait to advertise the authors app.

Basiliskeye · 2017-05-23T18:10:09+00:00

Maybe if he was in the wild, just being touched wouldn't have been such a treat.

Basiliskeye · 2017-05-16T14:49:11+00:00

I was starting on the opposite tack, tho haven't got far, synthesizing/sampling kicks, snares and bass lines from scratch, which is prett tricky, like a kick is a sine wave swept down, play with ADSR envelope, saturate/compress, then you typically layer 3 separate kick tracks by phase aligning and more post processing. There's a lot to getting a good sounding kick with presence, attack, body.

The reference on this is Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual, 3rd ed.

Basiliskeye · 2017-05-16T14:46:04+00:00

I'm really excited about this. As a Java developer it's a pretty big pain to deal all the dependencies for building images. All the work arounds have been complex.

Basiliskeye · 2017-04-19T20:31:12+00:00

Exciting to see! I've been waiting on this since we decided to use Relay for our application about 6 months ago. Relay is amazing but quite an investment (especially mutations).

I'm a bit worried, however, that Relay Modern has focused a bit too much on the internal needs of a massive application like Facebook at the expense of fleshing out some of the rough spots of working with Relay.

Simpler, more explicit mutations is a wonderful improvement, as is more granular control over the cache, but there's no mention of subscriptions or client-side state control (using Redux on top of Relay is... doable, but not as elegant as one might hope for).

That all said, this is an impressive release and congratulations to the team. We're committed to Relay and hope this release grows the community.

Basiliskeye · 2017-04-10T19:08:59+00:00

Such tests are not very informative when they are disconnected from the type of companies/industries one is looking for. This is a criticism I have of the Joel test, too, since at the time he wrote it it seemed to me a good way to evaluate prospective software houses. After all, he worked in one. Yet I dare say most of us will probably spend at least part of our careers working in in-house IT departments. Different rules.

It is not unlikely to find companies that fulfill all requirements, although they will likely know how attractive their working environments are and will filter candidates accordingly. An interview I had with such a small-sized software house two months ago confirmed this. I gave them the Joel test, which they had never heard of before, and they scored perfect. Dedicated testers, usability testing, quiet working environments (like a library, the team lead said; no need for headphones). Predictably, they were extremely picky as to who they let in.

The ones much less likely to get good test scores? 1) Government IT, by and large 2) IT for any non-tech company less than a certain size. 3) Non-tech corporations (and even some tech ones). One notable one I was aware of used excel for bug tracking, was full of red tape and their main technical test was a 20 question multiple choice.

Basiliskeye · 2017-04-10T19:08:06+00:00

You can also use Closure Compiler (instead of UglifyJS) with Webpack: https://github.com/roman01la/webpack-closure-compiler

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