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lampoonedon Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake

Bitcoin is not the future of money.

lampoonedon Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet

Seems very unlikely. It's open source, so you can review the code and compile it yourself.

lampoonedon Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

Facebook's whois result is pretty funny.

   $ whois facebook.com

   Whois Server Version 2.0

   Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
   IP Address: 69.41.185.229
   Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.
   Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
   Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

lampoonedon Chromecast update breaks AllCast

Google basically just made Chromecast less useful than an Apple TV,

lampoonedon The $80 web development workstation

Saying that if you use a Mac, you're obviously a hipster is just fucking stupid.

MacBooks are good laptops. I like them. Using and liking a MacBook doesn't make you a hipster, nor does it make you any less of a "serious programmer".

lampoonedon Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing It Himself

Nothing he hasn't done before. Virgin Trains basically have a monopoly in the UK.

lampoonedon Ask HN: Twitter archives/dumps?

This is just what I was looking for. Thanks!

lampoonedon Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?

> Given today's software, it's trivial to fake a "photocopy" of an ID.

How would one even go about doing this? Sounds rather difficult to make a fake ID convincing.

Can anyone share some links on the subject?

lampoonedon Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on

Does anyone think someone extending this to place trades via API would be that horrible of an idea? Seems like it'd be interesting.

lampoonedon Ring of Bitcoins: Why Your Digital Wallet Belongs On Your Finger

This is a horrible idea. This is the Bitcoin equivilent of walking around with the entire contense of your bank account, in cash.

If someone mugged him, those Bitcoins are gone. No reversing of payments, nothing. At least on a computer his wallet could be encrypted.

lampoonedon How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000

Why would a startup so young would blow their money on hiring 2-3 senior level developers?

lampoonedon Microsoft - An expensive error

IE 10 is decent. But, unfortunately, Microsoft still hasn't leaned its lesson and has no plans to support WebGL. This just means IE will trail behind once again.

lampoonedon Meteorite crash in Russia

That is terrifiying.