There is no such thing, unless you are rounding.  CFD cannot reach 100%, it can only approach it.

The way I understand the math, all of your recently-submitted shares are considered, no matter which worker they were submitted through -- so running several workers on one worker account or several should make no difference to the amount of reward you get when the block is solved.  Even if one machine drops out... since the shares are considered collectively, it doesn't matter which account they were submitted through.  They will age just like every other share you submit.  (Correct me if I'm wrong, slush.)  In other words, the older shares you submitted from the still-active machines have aged and become worthless too, you just can't tell because they are submitting enough new shares to keep the reward up.

Now, having said that, my proxy doesn't "dynamically associate a worker account to each machine."  You still need to set up worker accounts in my proxy script.  The difference is that you can assign those worker accounts to more than one pool.  (Although you could probably hack it to do what you want. )

If you are using e.g. slush's pool, you should still have a separate account for each worker.  My proxy allows multiple miners to authenticate to it with separate credentials, and the proxy will then authenticate to pools using credentials stored for that worker.  In other words, each worker-pool assignment has its own pool credentials.


It's "as soon as I clean up the Git repo."    I hope to get to that this week.

I will proxy-purchase the following game/gift cards, for their equivalent price in BTC (based on the current mtgox bid price) plus whatever taxes I pay (7%) and a 5% fee.

• 60-day WoW game cards ($29.99).  (Check price)
• $10 Zynga game cards (for FarmVille, etc.).  (Check price)

I will generally make a trip to purchase them once per week (the fee will help cover the cost of gas).  If the service becomes popular enough, I might keep a few stocked for instant delivery.

By default you will receive the code on the card only, not the physical card.  If you want the physical card mailed to you (U.S. only) please indicate as such when placing your order, and include 0.5 BTC to cover the cost of postage and supplies.  If mailed, the card will arrive with whatever protective measures the card has intact (usually a scratch-off layer covering the code).

I will not issue refunds for unwanted cards, but if the code does not work I will issue you a refund only if my local store issues me a refund.

I would prefer selling to people who have OTC set up so that we can exchange ratings after each transaction, but this is not required.

If people released their code as open-source only when it worked perfectly, there would be no open source projects. 

Just FYI, I got a payment just now.  So that at least demonstrates that unconfirmed rewards are getting properly confirmed after the requisite number of blocks.  I see no reason to switch to another pool at the moment.

I've done quite a bit of PHP -- my first internship was an IT developer for internal and customer-facing applications, and I found myself frequently educating my full-time colleagues about SQL injection and proper OO design.    My work included developing a knowledge-base system for our customers from the ground-up, including database schema design (supporting differential compression of document revisions), PHP SOAP service design, and view/edit front-ends.  None of this is public so I can't link you, unfortunately.

A smaller (but public) example would be the front page of the WQME website.  I was responsible for coding the "Now Playing" and weather information displays, all of which require several components to function, including a C# service to monitor the current and last songs, PHP scripts to collect and repackage this data, and JavaScript to pull and present it, all of which I wrote.  This has been in production for 2+ years and has required minimal maintenance.

I can make myself available for a Skype interview if you would like. 

PGP key

I'll post some samples here and send other info privately.

YICS

Open source protocol translator/adapter written in C (originally written in Perl and later rewritten).  Allows FICS interfaces to be used on Yahoo! Chess without modification.  The software impersonates an ICS-style server and translates the binary Yahoo! Games protocol to the text-mode ICS protocol and vice-versa, emulating parts of the ICS server to support features that are either not 100% compatible or are not even implemented on Yahoo! Chess (such as the user formula settings).

Open Visualization Platform (OpenVP)

Open source audio/music visualization platform written in C#.  This has been a pet project of mine for a while, and is currently undergoing yet another API design iteration.  But the currently-published version still works, and well enough to be accepted into the Banshee Community Extensions package.  It supports abstracted input from media players, meaning that the same visualization assembly can run in multiple player hosts, as long as the player implements the required abstract class.  The upcoming version (not published yet) will support multiple and arbitrary metadata pipelines coming from the media player (or other sources) including, but not limited to, PCM/spectrum data, album art, song title information, and possibly even user-generated information.

An earlier iteration of this project included a home-grown compiler for an AVS-compatible scripting language, allowing for user-entered movement and rendering functions to be compiled (through .NET's native JIT) to high-performance native code.  This compiler was removed from the second iteration (the one currently available) in favor of pre-compiled assemblies.  Scripting functionality might be brought back later in the form of IronPython or a similar embedded language.

Screenshot (more here):





This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but it highlights the projects I consider to be the most successful in the F/LOSS community.  I will add more replies later when I have more time.

It seems functional now.

Bump

The difference, if there is any, will be negligible.  JITting a method is a one-time operation in the life of an AppDomain; AOT will reduce startup time, but will not improve runtime performance (and may degrade it).


Probably not, just Thread objects.  The parallel stuff is more for doing efficient processing of sequences or starting up a few discrete tasks and firing them off... it's not really well-suited for mining, where performance is critical.

I have a worker-pooling class that will manage the workers automatically, whether they are CPU miners running on different threads or GPU miners running on different GPUs.

That would actually worsen performance.  All AOT does is perform the bytecode-to-native translation ahead of time.  The JIT-compiler will perform the same process at runtime when each method is first entered -- so this step only happens once per method for each instance of the program.

The difference is that the JIT knows what CPU it is running on and can use optimizations specific to the features your CPU has.  Since AOT code is designed to be distributed with the corresponding assembly, the AOT-compiler has to assume a generic CPU and so it will create compatible but slower code.

Yes -- "Housing and utilities" might be better since it covers mortgage payments too. 

I'd like to offer my services as a software developer.  I'm interested in taking side jobs apart from my regular full-time job, and this seems like a good market to work in.

I can write software for Windows and Linux (not OS X -- I don't have a Mac to test on) and in a variety of programming languages.  Web development is on the table too, but note that I don't do graphic design.  If you give me a design I can make it work though. 

Desktop/server languages: C# (Windows/.NET, Linux/Mono), C, Java, VB6, Perl

Web languages: (X)HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP (vanilla, MODx, Symfony), Perl

I have four years professional experience and have been programming since I was ~10.  No job is too small, but note I have a fairly demanding schedule and so I would prefer jobs that don't need to be done in two calendar weeks.    Usually I would like to retain rights to the code, but this is negotiable.

I ask 25BTC/hr (work logs will be recorded) and samples of work are available upon request.  Some of my code is available online (SourceForge, Gitorious).

This is the right place to ask.  If I were you, I would check out Bitcoin.local first, as there might be someone in your area willing to do an exchange for cash.

You might also consider offering a trade in #bitcoin-otc.

It might work but I'd advise against it.  If you need to dispute the payment later, it won't have come from your account and so you won't be able to.  And if such a dispute succeeded anyway, assuming you could even place it, the money wouldn't be sent back to you; it'd be sent to CoinCard.

Best to send it to your account first.

Bump.  This offer is still open. 

I agree, but I think it's mainly the particular blue chosen.  Perhaps just tweaking the color a bit would help.

18 I guess.

Probably, but I'd have to buy it from amazon.co.uk (gift cards are not transferable between .com and .co.uk) and that presents two challenges:

• I don't know what rate Amazon converts USD to GBP at, so I don't know what amount to enter in the card field.
• I don't know what the fees would be to use the card internationally.  My guess is that they would be more than PayPal's respective fee to send money using a credit card.