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CHEAP: Level up your gaming arsenal with 20% off on Acer products

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by on May 22, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Are you jealous that your friends have a better gaming rig? Or do you just want to get a swanky monitor to utilize that powerful GPU you have? Well, if you head to Acer’s site you can get up to 20 percent off on their gaming products including laptops, desktops, and monitors. If you’re looking for a machine to game on the go, you can go for a Predator Helios 300 powered by the Intel’s Core i7-8750H processor and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 GPU. You could also choose more powerful options like the Predator Helios 500 or the Predator Triton 700 with better GPUs…

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Bitcoin Pizza Day: How a hungry Florida man made cryptocurrency history

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by on May 22, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Nine years ago today, the first ever Bitcoin transaction for a consumer product took place after a Florida man spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. Since then, cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe have celebrated ‘Bitcoin Pizza Day,’ not because the man in question paid 10,000 BTC, but because at the time said transaction represented a milestone for Bitcoin adoption.  So, while buying pizza with Bitcoin today doesn’t seem too far-fetched, I can assure you it was a relatively big deal at the time because no merchant accepted the cryptocurrency as payment. On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid a fellow Bitcoin…

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This business school prof is sharing his business plan course for just $14

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by on May 22, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


There’s actually a detailed 13-step guide to creating an impactful startup business plan from scratch. You can pick up that gameplan for yourself, all with an award-winning MBA professor as your personal business sherpa, in The Complete Business Plan in One Course ft. Chris Haroun. It’s on sale now for over 90 percent off, just $14.

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How DevOps managers can learn to trust automation

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by on May 22, 2019 at 10:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


“It worked in staging!” says the dev team. And the ops team replies: “it must be a code issue.” Developers and ops people sometimes have different perspectives on why a deployment went wrong. Was it the code? Or the infrastructure? In the end, it’s the user that suffers, and that user doesn’t care about why your product was broken. They just want it to work, so they can do their work. It really did work in staging Everyone on the team wants to get things right the first time, deploying a quality product with every feature release. That’s why development…

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PANIC: You have until May 28 to download The Sims 4 for FREE

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by on May 22, 2019 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


In a parallel universe, 12-year-old me is crying. Why am I crying, you ask? Because The Sims 4 is free. Yes, that’s right. Complimentary. Gratis. Ókeypis. FREE. The fourth installment of the life simulation game was launched in 2014, and six expansion packs — which allow for a wider scope of gameplay, like added actions, furniture, clothing, and more — have been released since. You have until May 28 to get yourself a copy. All you have to do is go to the Origin store and click “Download for FREE now for a limited time.” To play, you’ll also need…

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