choffman

There's about to be a lot of skinny people in Canada bordering states. :)

Article says Postgres launched in 1986. Wikipedia says 1996.

Devilmouse!

AC is one of my favorite games of all time (neck and neck with Ultima II (I'm old)). I still play on the emulators from time to time - endlessly searching for more Hoary Mattekars.

I played on Thistledown and ran a little portal bot named Stip Dickens an Ayan Baqur that helped ferry people into the Shard of the Herald event. That was a lot of fun.

The loot system was also one-of-a-kind. I don't see that level of randomness in many other games.

The game felt like the writers and staff were highly literate and well read. I now know so many real life herbs and plants due to their use in spellcasting. And AC taught me words like "Mnemosyne".

And each month we would get several pages of amazing lore. (Side note, there's an ongoing web serial called "The Wandering Inn" that reminds me quite a bit of AC. People dropped into a video game like world, insect people, references to a "Zeikhal"(similar to a town name)....

So, I just want to thank you for your work on AC. It's had a profoundly positive impact on my life.

I sometimes peruse the Daily/Weekly/Monthly trending report on Github: https://github.com/trending?since=daily

I'm not sure if the ghost of Netscape Composer is laughing or crying.

I really appreciate you writing this guide. As a long time Linux user, I've always wanted to learn AWK, but it seemed too daunting. Three minutes into your guide and I immediately saw how I could use it in my day-to-day usage.

Word up.

It could be someone that likes to use specific numbers as a "calling card" of sorts.

A noble attempt, but without supporting Monero you're not supporting fungibility and privacy.

I hope this is an oversight that you'll correct.

It is much safer for me to buy things on the Internet with cryptocurrencies than credit cards. It seems like every few months there's a huge leak of customers and credit card information.

I think Keybase is making a mistake in choosing Zcash over Monero - especially so soon after Zcash's launch. But that's okay - they'll come around soon enough. Zcash has been fantastic advertising for Monero.

ZCash requires a trusted setup, takes a 20% fee from miners, and active mixing requires 8GB of RAM.

https://blog.okturtles.com/2016/03/the-zcash-catch/

http://weuse.cash/2016/06/09/btc-xmr-zcash/

If you are interested in anonymous blockchains, I highly encourage you to look into Monero. It meets or exceeds that of ZCash. And Monero's RingCT is currently implemented and in use on TestNet with a target "go-live" this January.

True, but Fastmail has addressed this. I'm not sure that their argument completely holds up, but here's what they have to say about it: https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i...

From the Medium blog:

> The cypherpunk, anarchist future wasn’t supposed to be about stronger banking guarantees and wealth redistribution among Reddit users.

I think your interests may fall more closely in line with what the Monero folks are doing. I'm not aware of any other cryptocurrency project with better privacy features. And they're working directly with the I2P developers to get better privacy at the network level(Kovri).

There are plenty of early adopters who purchased Monero for several dollars each. And it languished at 30-50 cents for well over a year. And is now only ~$1.

So there's been plenty of time for anyone to be an early adopter....continuing through today and easily for months to come.

Or skip Monero altogether. Aeon, a related project is available right now for less than 1 penny. And has been for quite some time.

So, as to your question, Done. You can be an "early adopter" right now.

So how do you advocate for a cryptocurrency that you truly believe in without being called a shill...or a pumper?

Monero/CryptoNote based coins offer better privacy than any other competitor. And we live in an age where that's becoming increasingly important.

I'm not sure that anyone can speak to what happens to crypto in a post quantum world.

Mixing does not happen on a server - that would be an atrocious violation of privacy. Monero (and other cryptonote coins ) use ring signatures - https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf

There is also work being done to employ gmaxwell's Confidential Transactions: https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/blob/master/RingCT0....

This technology already exists today in the form of the Cryptonote based coins - of which Monero is the leading example.

Cryptonote, by default, is an opaque blockchain - your transactions are not visible to the world. But, let's say you're a non-profit organization and you do wish for your donations to be public. Cryptonote allows for that using a "view key".

In this way, you get the best of both worlds - privacy by default, and openness when you need it.

The cryptonote wallets are still in their early stages, but the various coins are available and trading on exchanges today. And you can even use them to pay bitcoin based merchants using a service like ShapeShift or xmr.to .

Jello will always be a hero to me for what he did during all the PMRC stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKRGX1a-JBE

Again, existing technologies already provide this. And they further empower the user to expressly define how much anonymity they want...down to the transactional level.

Empowering governments with additional taxation tools is about the only thing this brings to the table over existing technologies.

No thank you. With regards to my government, I would like to see more privacy rather than less. This seems to give me less.

I do like the idea of complete transactional privacy between end users and/or merchants. But we already have this today with CryptoNote based cryptocurrencies like Monero - with optional transparency through "view keys".

Agreed. Which is why some of the newer cryptocurrencies like Monero are gaining some attention.

Graphite compliments the ELK stack and does not replace it.

Logstash is great at extracting metrics/numbers/data out of your logs. You can then use the graphite/statsd output plugin to graph that data.

My daughter also took to Barbie's and princesses. We weren't happy with it at first, but we decided to accept it and encourage diversity in playtime. So we introduced Lego's, nerf swords, my old Capsela kit, and tons more.

So now we have a kid that plays princesses, begs us to go to the annual Ren Faire and Comic Book Day, started building some basic programs/toys in Scratch, and regularly beats down bosses in MMO's.

Strength through diversity.

|What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX?

Freedom.

Competition certainly sounds nice on paper, but think of the problems that the various sound servers/api's have caused. OSS(+ 4Front's version), ALSA, PulseAudio, Jack.