I bid 5 BTC. The amount you paid for 62 Chips.
Enigma
Order #10129 made on April 27, 2013 time is money... Nope, Money is Money.. Time is only worth money if yours is valuable to someone else... My offer stands if you don't find other interest. Enigma |
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I bid 5 BTC. The amount you paid for 62 Chips.
Enigma
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I was also there at the conference.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that Yifu stated they can produce about 50 Avalons a day once their new line is running and calibrated.
Yes he did. Should be interesting when they get to that point. the question is how long will it take to get through the "up and running & calibrated" =/ For a full SMT line (Paster, Paste Inspection*, Pick/Place or two, Reflow Oven and AOI*), This can be done in less than a week if they're serious about it. Enigma *Equipment is somewhat optional, but highly recommended - especially for fine pitch components. |
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PHP isn't very good for scaling, every request is a totally separate action and it doesn't look like they're using caching. What PHP is good for is small stuff because it's quick and easy to understand. Tell that to Facebook. Facebook uses PHP - but it's heavily modified, and it's not used for modules that it isn't suited to. The reason Facebook hasn't migrated away from PHP is because it has incumbent inertia (it's what's there) and Facebook's engineers have managed to work around many of its flaws through a combination of patches at all levels of the stack and excellent internal discipline via code convention and style - the worst attributes of the language are avoided and coding style is rigidly enforced through a fairly tight culture of code review (failing to adhere to the style and "going cowboy" by writing sloppy code results in pitiless mockery by one's peers). Engineering management has never had to take a strong hand here; this arose largely due to key internal technical leaders just sort of corralling everyone else along.
There is also a lot of industry precedent indicating that re-writing an entire codebase in another language is usually one of the worst things you can do, so at all levels there is a reluctance to do that. The preferred strategy is to write new components in a de-coupled manner using a better language of choice (C++, python, Erlang, Java, etc); this is easily facilitated by Facebook's early development of thrift, an efficient multi-language RPC framework. This also helps avoid the worst effects of PHP: it can be totally avoided in subcomponents where the language is grossly-unsuitable. The broad effect is that the overall codebase slowly evolves away from depending as heavily on PHP, with the components that are still in PHP being written in tightly-controlled, disciplined ways by veteran members of the staff. Enigma |
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Zero fucks given, regarding presence or non-presence said stickers. [Pssst. I tore the label off my mattress too!]  That is the correct response. Unless their chip emits RF which hoses up your Bluetooth causing your wireless game controllers to glitch causing you to die in HALO. Then you rage.  Really, the only people who are going to care is BFL and the FCC. Unless BFL ends up in court over something, then the plaintiff would care. Eh.. Yes and no.. It should get certified for lots of reasons. If it's not UL listed, I sure as hell wouldn't plug it in. There ABSOLUTELY have been cases of insurance companies refusing to pay for a burned down house/building because the fire was caused by an unlisted device. Enigma |
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Does the FCC have a clause stating that if less than X units are built and shipped, then FCC certification doesn't apply?
No such exemption exists. FCC Certification is mandatory for the BFL Products (And Avalon, I might add) Enigma |
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At one point you asked how Avalon would ship the 10K Chips. I don't think I ever saw it answered. Almost without doubt, they will ship them in JEDEC Trays. It's kind of the de facto standard for chip transport.  http://www.topline.tv/JEDEC_Tray.html |
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Info sent. Now the waiting game...
Enigma
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Thank You!
Something is doinked up with the math in your spreadsheet though.. Shows my 3.12 BTC as being 39.999999999999 Chips..
780 / 10000 = 0.078 BTC/Chip
3.12BTC / 0.078 = 40 Chips
No imperfect calculations this way..
Enigma
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Hello OP,
Please increase my stake to 3.12 BTC (exactly 40 chips).
Thank You!
Enigma
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I'm in for 3 BTC worth. Fun to play with.
Enigma
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Hey all,
Tomorrow I will be going to Xilinx HQ and was told I could get an FPGA (maybe multiples) for free (know a guy).
Out of all the ones they have,which would be best/easiest to set up a miner on?
Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 Good for 250 MH/s Software already written Fairly easy PCB layout (Compared to Virtex) Cheap enough ($150) that they might actually give you a few. |
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This whole things is either
A ) Complete bullshit
or
B ) A sign of the level of inept that is MtGox
For God's sake - It's NOT that damn hard. It's just not. I promise. They do not need to limit the ability of their customers to do what they can do now (place currently unfunded orders). When I traded at Gox, I did it all the time. If I thought the price might fall, place a sell at -5% and then a buy (unfunded) at -10%.. Or something of that nature. It's a nice "feature".
Re-Calculating an accounts open-orders after each transaction is just NOT that big of a deal. If the site was designed by anyone with even the remotest sense of distributed computing, it would be such a non-issue that this discussion wouldn't even be taking place. A properly designed trading system could handle the current load of bitcoin trading and still twiddle it's electronic fingers 75% of the time.
I'm not a huge Oracle fan.. But jesus Gox.. Call them.. Or IBM.. or one of the other heavy-metal DB-App specialists.. They'll be happy to politely explain how it works.
SOOOOO glad I left Gox. Yeah, the reduced liquidity is a bit of a bummer.. But when things start rolling, I place a trade and its done... No 19 Minute "LAG" shit..
Enigma
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With the increase in the value of bitcoins, I wonder if they'll raise their prices after they ship the preorders.
If they really are ready to start shipping, honestly, they'd be pretty foolish not to. Once manufacturing/shipping starts to catch up the backlog, people will gladly pay much more for what they have to offer. Enigma |
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Also... 400 units a day? ROFL
Avalon can only produce about 600 units a month with their awesome assembly/production equipment.
BFL bought their assembly/production equipment off of Ebay (TRUTH), lol. 400 units a day... that's comedy!
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that (if they had enough raw chips) building 400 Singles or Jalapenos per day would be no problem at all. The Singles/Jalapenos are MUCH simpler to assemble than an Avalon. BFL isn't using their (ebay) gear to build the circuit boards. They are contracting a CM in (if memory serves) Chicago and then presumably doing the final assembly in house. Any CM with a decent set of gear could crank out 400 of those PCB's in a few hours. Real build rate for the PCBA is probably 2 minutes per board for a reasonable automated assembly line. Dropping the boards and the heat-sink into an enclosure shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, so 400 units per day would be 33 Man-Hours per day for assembly. That's 4 people. I'm not suggesting they will or will not manufacture 400 per day, I'm just pointing out that it is nowhere near impossible. Enigma |
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on behalf of ultimately German banksters completely "legimately".
The haircut potential sucks for everyone involved - I agree.. But how can you blame the Germans? No one is holding a gun to Cyprus's collective head and forcing them to accept the loan. The EU (Germany+all others) made it pretty simple.. We'll give you a (HUGE) loan, but you have to come up with some collateral first. Cyprus CAN say no to the terms. Enigma |
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If someone has some serious photoshop skills it would be interesting to see what all the writing is on the opposite side of the tag.
"HOUSE LABELS" is obvious - below that, hard to say. It's quite blurred.. Enigma |
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not happy with placement choice of the "little" single. why wouldn't you have them evenly spaced to better spread out the heat? (ideally at the corners)
This isn't something I would be concerned about - In fact, they may be placed that way FOR cooling purposes - all forced convection heatsinks have areas that are cooler because of the flow characteristics of the forced air. Enigma |
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