That all sounds annoying as hell, Tom.
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Tom, that's a lot of bad electronics luck all at once - sorry to hear. As far as e-cycling, I recommend hiring a TaskRabbit. You can set up a pickup really easily with the app, and even have the Tasker send you a photo of the receipt/proof of drop off so that you don't have to wonder if your stuff landed in the Hudson.
Tom, could you try plugging your Mac mini into a TV you might already have for a while? I don't know how long term bearable it would be but it is something.
Oh man, I'm sorry about all the electronics luck Tom.
My monitor came back to life, but I'm afraid to post about it because then I will jinx myself.
Need some advice concerning security type credentials. #1 son is thinking of doing some study and testing on security areas but there are a multitude of paths. We have SonicWall in our cloud environment, so he can access that easily and work on it, but getting SonicWall credentials seems limiting. There is also Cisco, ,Microsoft/Azure, CompTIA, and more! He already has a good deal of knowledge and competency, but nothing formal.
He'd like some initials behind his name, but I'm not sure what would be best. Any thoughts on that field of study and credentials?
(as I hit the road for the next few hours, so more later)
Good thing my monitor didn't straight out die, but gave me enough time to calm the fuck down. I hauled my monitor to the Apple Store, dropped it off, and then went over to Best Buy and bought a cheap $100 monitor, which will tide me over for the time being.
Coder folks: I am a teacher by trade but a casual programmer as a hobby (and I teach computer science starting next year!). I am a pretty good javascript programmer for a casual, but as I don't work in the field I've never really learned any of the many application frameworks out there (Angular, react, etc). I'm interested in learning more about treating javascript as a functional language. Is there a framework/library I could learn through an online course that might push me to learn more about functional javascript?
Javascript is a functional language. So courses in pure Javascript might be useful. Classes are kind of an artificial construct in Javascript at least until ES2015/ES6.