ohh got it, it will be for a decent sized project, nothing that small. but i appreciate you responding!
A month ago I would have had the winter break to tackle it, but it's only the 3rd day of the semester now so I'm probably booked until summer. There are lots of other developers around here, but we don't always check the services section. Just look at people signatures on other topics and PM them if they mention programming or Ruby. |
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does you know where I can find one?
Depends what you need and how quickly you need it. If it is something smallish or not urgent I can probably take it on, but I'm in grad school and teaching, so I could only spend about 5 hours a week on it. |
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In the future kids will be too busy flying cars and eating space cheese to worry about breaking an encryption algorithm.
mmmmm.... space cheese |
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LOLWUT  |
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Why would I risk installing a virus to use your closed-source application when there are tons of open source applications that already mine very efficiently? Or am I missing the link to the code? |
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3) 160 bits can't be brute forced. Period. Yes, now. Do you know what hardware and tech the military has? Do you know what we will have in 20 years? I don't. No one knows. This is the point. It's the same as projecting the future costs and sizes of computers before the transistor. Even in 20 years military can build a single computer as powerfull as all the computer of the world now and put 1 quadrillion of that computer together (if they are the size of a credit card and 1mm of thickness they cover all the Earth surface with a stacked heigt of 9Km) it still took 80 years to crack a 160 bit hash. Not to count the energy involved in the process. Sounds about right... Really, we can't even count to 2^256 with a theoretical perfectly efficient computer without using more energy than is contained in the sun. Forget calculating a hash for each value. |
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And yes, using bootstrap.dat for initialization avoids the problem with slow block downloading, but that's not what you want to be telling new users.
Are you joking? Your whole attitude and the reality (0.7.99 is experimental!) press new people to use bootstrap.dat and this will increase as longer you wait. And if a newbie complains to me about long first initialization, of course I will point them to bootstrap.dat method, who won´t? smtp It took my machine less than 4 hours to download from scratch, and most of that was waiting on peers to send the data. What is the problem? Really, if you don't have any bug reports or testing results, can you please start a new thread to discuss potential future improvements. This thread is for testing 0.8 so that it can be released sometime this decade. |
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The fact that German politicians doubt the honesty or quality control of held gold in the US is kind of worriesome. Quite a far fetched and hostile excuse to take it home. Now you lot know how it feels to be on the receiving end of it all the bloody time  Lol. i'm neither German or American, It's just the absurdity of such news! If any of the arguments are real, it would set off a disaster in the markets. Is it just Gold bug manipulation? same with bitcoins..why would you let someone else hold them for you when you have the capability to secure them yourself? It's not the same. With bitcoin there is no excuse for not securing them yourself. Gold "owners" will give all kinds of excuses why the don't take delivery. |
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I need one of those kites (I'm assuming that's how he got so high up). A friend had a smallish one (still quite large) in my undergrad days and I loved flying it. On a good, windy, day, we'd strap ourselves to the goal posts on the football field to keep us from flying away. |
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What bothers me is that there is no site that would take the volume on all the various exchanges and plot it on a single chart. Right now if you look at mtgox their volume throughout 2012 is constant in BTc while they only represent 60% of all the volume.. Would we really nice to see the rest of the market plotted on the same chart.
The data is out there, just throw it in your favorite spreadsheet program  . |
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Silly windows users... no plugs were ever needed in linux.
Silly Linux users... no BIOS flashes were ever need to downclock memory to 150 in Windows. Sigh, there's enough PC/Mac/Penguin threads to post in..... Ohh..that looks like a nasty burn notme..better get some ointment on that ..lol Ow. I'm injured.  Newbs should learn to do things the right way instead of running to Windows as their savior: http://amdovdrvctrl.sourceforge.net/ |
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Is it me, or are no new ask/bids being put up? It seems like walls on both sides are slowly being whittled away.
The chart right above you disagrees. The asks are shrinking, but the bids are growing. |
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Over $2.5 millions in bids.  Bids growing, asks shrinking, retirement on track |
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I like it when people use apple products. Enables me to say: "Sorry girl, can't help you out with that, I'm a linux guy. But.. doesn't that usually just work? Try sliding or tapping the thing and remove your finger from that gap in the metal in case reception is bad. You're supposed to hold it like this, see?"
Good thing Apple is structuring itself for the computer unsavvy so that if they have questions they don't really thing to ask their local geek friend to fix their problem but the first thought is to head to the "genius bar" so I don't deal with such nonsense  Works great, unless you're in the half of the (US) population nowhere near a "genius bar". If you're in another country and not in the capital, good luck. |
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Heavy buying going on?
This happen a lot?
Do you think people like BitInstant and DeathandTaxes sometimes do large off-exchange deals to certain people at an attractive price knowing that they will in turn be the catalyst for bitcoin taking off (by web of extension)? Friends of these guys will hear about it and want to buy in, but I mean, supply of large singular bitcoin lump sum transactions without market slippage will become increasingly greater, and as a result, the price could at some near future point have a sudden "jump". I mean, plausible. How do they (BitInstant, DeathandTaxes, et al. get the Bitcoins they sell is what I want to know? I know it doesn't matter so much to Bitinstant because they get a fee that can always keep them positive no matter they can keep replenishing coins knowing they have a consistent revenue and it won't hurt them unless the price dips too much, but how does DeathandTaxes do it? D&T is a big miner if I remember correctly. He likely also buys some on an exchange. As long as you are willing to keep funds on the exchange, each time you sell you can make a purchase to offset it. |
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i'm an avid proponent of apple products but I couldn't be less impartial to what price Apple is trading at. In fact, I invite the volatility Why? I have an iPhone that a client bought for me to do an App. The next one will run Android. I mean I used Windows since the age of 4 and know it inside out, but it was breathtaking moving to a UI that was intuitive, on hardware that felt right to use and worked (battery life, build quality, etc). And at least within the Apple ecosystem, my iphone works so well together with an apple tv and Mac. Now I'm sure you can do most things on a Windows/Android system as you could on an iPhone, but the Apple culture just really emphasizes usability and I just don't want to set every little thing up or troubleshoot every bug I run into. I don't want to think about any of that. I just want to do whatever I need to do and get on with my life, it's way too short to constantly configure things. That's mainly why I don't use linux too, but I could if I didn't see Apple as a more usable product to me. In my experience my phone has plenty of bugs, primarily in Apple software (much has been fixed by updates, but that's a problem too because they don't make special updates for earlier models, they just dump the new code on you that is tuned for the newer devices, resulting in severe lag issues on the older hardware). With my Android tablet I have much less trouble and my vendor (Asus) provides custom images for each device they sell, ensuring good performance with the latest bug fixes. Apple's okay if you want to shell out another $500 every year to keep your hardware up to date, but I've got better things to spend my money on (like bitcoin ). |
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Oh, I look forward to bottling all the sweet fan boy tears if that happens  i'm an avid proponent of apple products but I couldn't be less impartial to what price Apple is trading at. In fact, I invite the volatility Why? I have an iPhone that a client bought for me to do an App. The next one will run Android. |
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It was allowed... until it was abused by scammers. This is why we can't have nice things.
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anodically, I believe the post quality has never been higher on bitcoin talk than now.
As long as we aren't going by spelling anecdotally- Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis |
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when did LocalBitcoins.com start?
If my memory is worth anything (unlikely) they started 6-8 months ago. |
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