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  1. I wager 100 quatloos on the newcomer on Ethereum Could Be Worth More Than Bitcoin Very Soon (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Kloog will administer correction.

  2. IM RICH!!! on Bitcoin Price Hits Fresh Record High Above $2,200 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow I left about 30 bitcoins in some bitcoin bank about 5 years ago! I'm gonna log in and CASH OUT! What was it called, Mount Cox or something? I wrote it down somewhere.

  3. Does not matter on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Honestly, in a time when UI "designers" insist that text be just a shade or two grayer than a light gray background, you're lucky to make it out at all.

  4. The solution is obvious on NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Porting this creaky code to node.js running in Docker should give at least a 10x performance boost.

  5. Live the dream! Sip Juicero while riding a Segway to your job at Snapchat. Don't forget the Google Glass!

  6. Systemd #WINNING on Red Hat Suffers Massive Data Center Network Outage · · Score: 1

    Uh oh... sounds like the datacenter team accidentally deployed the systemd package we cooked up for the North Korean missile program.

  7. Curses! Foiled again on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    All that work porting xeyes to Wayland, down the drain.

  8. I've never used Ubuntu and never will. Canomical is a vanity company, prizing the Benevolent Dictator's ego over being a good open source citizen. Ubuntu is by far the buggiest OS ever released, open source or proprietary. Proponents say that Ubuntu is good for linux, which is true in the same way that factory farming is good for chickens.

  9. From the top of Mt. Gox on Kim Dotcom Announces New Bitcoin Venture For Content Uploaders To Earn Money (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll wager 400 quatloos on the newcomer.

  10. No worries, the messages are stored in Gitlab.

  11. EZ adware removal & telemetry blocking on Windows 10 Is Just 'A Vehicle For Advertisements', Argues Tech Columnist (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    All the bloatware can be uninstalled via Powershell:
    https://www.techsupportall.com...
    Block every telemetry call:
    http://www.dslreports.com/foru...

  12. There's already an app for this on Dutch Town Pilots Lightlines To Help Distracted Smartphone Users Cross the Road (autoexpress.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Check out iLook for road crossing assistance. The basic version performs an effective real-time check for oncoming traffic. iLook Pro looks both ways.

  13. Big deal. on AI Software Juggles Probabilities To Learn From Less Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a machine learning system which can make high level decisions based on zero data. It has named itself Deep Trump.

  14. Get off my lawn on GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A company with 25 million VC bucks and customers like IBM, Redhat, and NASA doesn't have a working backup system? Let me guess, everybody at Gitlab is a developer, and the whole thing runs on node.js in Docker containers.

  15. Laptop batteries are the answer to everything. It is the miracle form factor which powers cars, vibrators, off-grid storage, and even laptops! Robots powered with laptop batteries will obey Asimov's 3 Laws. You buy NOW

  16. Completely unrealistic on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously a share price pump 'n dump play. After the latest layoffs, Twitter only has about 1,000 engineers, hardly enough to tackle a new feature.

  17. It knocked Windows off the internet? on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a feature, not a bug.

  18. Shocked, I'm shocked I tell you. on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    If Reddit can't be trusted to maintain the integrity of user posts, is there another internet troll sewer where I can post fake news, alt-right manifestos, and such?

  19. Commitment to security, quality, and updates?? on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    Said the packager of the most bug-ridden distro in open source history.

  20. What happens to aws-compat project? on AWS Releases Amazon Linux Container Image For Use in On-Premises Data Centers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been using the aws-compat library on Centos for our development systems. It's been ideal and I don't think we'll change. It mimics random I/O problems and occasionally deletes entire servers, just like in AWS. We do a complete run through for every iteration.

  21. Should be marked "Sponsored Post" on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is nothing more than an infomercial for system 76 hardware. There's not a single mention of a Mac user considering trying Linux instead of OS X.

  22. KDE vs Gnome (SOLVED) on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Many thanks to the original, once posted (circa 2002) on http://www.illusionary.com/GNO...

    KDE

    A big room somewhere in Europe with lots of chrome and glass and a great big whiteboard in the front with lots of tiny, neat writing on it. There are about 50 desks, each with headphones and pristine workstations, also with a lot of chrome and glass. The faint sound of classical music permeates the room, accompanying the clicky-click of 50 programmers typing or quietly talking in one of the appropriately assigned meeting areas. (Which of course consist of elegant contemporary white pine coffee tables surrounded by contemporary white pine and fine leather meeting chairs.) Coffee, tea, mineral water and fruit juices are available in the break area.

    At the end of the day, *everyone* checks in their code and the project leader does a "make" just to make sure it all compiles cleanly, but it's mostly only done from tradition anymore since it always compiles cleanly and works flawlessly. When all milestones have been met, and everything has been QA'd, (usually within a day or two of the roadmap that was written up 18 months previous) a new KDE release is packaged up and released to the mirror sites with the appropriate 24-hour delay for distribution before being announced.

    KDE developers are generally between the ages of 16 and 25, like art made of lines and squares and the colors white and black. When/if they finally stop taking government subsidies and get around to getting "real jobs," most of their salary will be taken in taxes so the socialist government can subsidize the care and feeding of the next generation of KDE developers, just like it did for them. A high percentage of KDE developers, during their mandatory 5 years of government military service, crack from their years of cultural dullness and flee Europe to become terrorists for the sheer joy to be found in killing random strangers for no discernible reason.

    GNOME

    An abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up as for a rave, electronica playing at 15db louder than "my ears are bleeding and I'm developing an aneurism" volumes and the windows all painted over black so that the strobe and spotlights and lasers can be seen better. Computers, mainly made of whatever stuff has been exchanged for crack or scavenged from dumpsters behind dot-bombs, are scattered around on whatever furniture is available, which also consists of whatever stuff has been exchanged for crack or scavenged from dumpsters behind dot-bombs. There's no break area, but you may be able to bum a beer (or more likely something harder) off of one of the developers hanging around, and they will probably be too jacked up on X, coke, acid, heroin, ether or all of the above to notice that you've taken anything.

    Development strategies are generally determined by whatever light show happens to be going on at the moment, when one of the developers will leap up and scream "I WANT IT TO LOOK JUST LIKE THAT" and then straight-arm his laptop against the wall in an hallucinogenic frenzy before vomiting copiously, passing out and falling face-down in the middle of the dance floor. There's no whiteboard, so developers diagram things out in the puddles of spilt beer, urine and vomit on the floor.

    At the end of the day - whenever that is since an equal number of programmers will be passed out at any given time - or really whenever someone happens to think of it (which is rarely), someone might type "make" on some machine somewhere, with mixed results. Generally nothing happens, so he/she shrugs his/her shoulders and wanders off to look for someone who might have more pink/black-striped pills. Once in a great while, generally in the unpleasant time between the come-down from the last thing they took and before whatever it was they took just now comes on fully, someone will tar up a bunch of random files and post it on a website someplace it as the next GNOME release, usually with a reference to

  23. More philanthropy on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 1

    Many music lovers applaud your work preventing the undoubtedly terrible Wu-Tang album from reaching the airwaves. Would you consider a similar effort for Kanye's upcoming release? It appears Kanye will want significantly more money. How would you feel about collaborating with other music fans, perhaps with a gofundme campaign?

  24. Re:Get out of your city more often on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Mod this up, I would if I could.

  25. You've already lost on RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish you hackers the best of luck, but the GOP has already been totally defaced. Rumor has it that it was an inside job.