al1x

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1. 61.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   Trolls getting trolled. Why is this not hilarious?
2. 62.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   I run FreeBSD and Postgres on ZFS. It's been an entirely painless experience. No pitfalls to look out for from where I sit. Your use-case and results may differ.
3. 63.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   Interesting news, especially given their consideration of adding bitcoin support. That would be huge for the BTC!
4. 64.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   I think this story is upvote-worthy however the paywall keeps me from doing so.
5. 65.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648282
6. 66.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   What am I supposed to be doing with it? What am I supposed to be getting from it? Admiring some design work or absorbing useful information? The aesthetic is there, but the utility? Nonexistent. This isn't how you present this type of data
7. 67.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   I chalk this business up under the "no idea how it got funded" category. 16 million bucks? It almost seems like a joke. What exactly is their business model? I get it, they want to annotate 'stuff', but how does that make money? If I want t
8. 68.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   if you've got revenue you should be able to pull something. it's the pre-revenue people who get turned down.
9. 69.▲
   by al1x 13y ago

   "the sanctity of HN"
10. 70.▲
    by al1x 13y ago

    more likely not. it's called a "correction".
11. 71.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    then spread awareness -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0
12. 72.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    bitcoin alternatives -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0
13. 73.▲
    Bitcoin alternatives(bitcointalk.org)

    4 points by al1x 14y ago|0 comments
14. 74.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    This seems a natural consequence of bitcoin's adoption and growth. I see virtually no barriers to entry here, no limit to the number of competing currencies that could be introduced, and as a result no real value to bitcoins. How long can o
15. 75.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    ...and what happens when a competing cryptocurrency is released?
16. 76.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    There's also the standard built-in microphone. The best option is to disassemble the laptop, remove the webcam hardware, and clip the leads to the mic--detatching it from the motherboard. If you need a webcam use an external.
17. 77.▲
    by al1x 14y ago

    gobble.wa@gmail.com made a similar post to the freebsd-questions mailing list a month ago. In his case the question was how to print an md5sum along with the file names in a given directory. I saved it because I thought it was a clever hack