I'd vote, but I'm biased.

Oh well. I guess I'm glad someone made a better system than me.

As for your CAPTCHA question, I live in Washington, so the sky is actually gray.  

Thanks for the info. Once I've got my plan more into place (hopefully soon), I'll definitely check you out for hosting. You've got great prices, especially for someone like me who's feeling more like testing the waters right now.

Now that I think about it, for some reason I just assumed that I would have to run bitcoind at the same server as the site. I don't know where else I would run it though. Perhaps I could set up a home server. I would have more control over the wallet, but I don't know how reliable it would be...

Because I don't know much about GeoDjango, and I don't exactly how the database that you're using handles it on the back-end, I can't say for sure that it's more efficient than looping through all of the models, but the distance_lte function seems to be the sort of function that you're looking for. I'd imagine that the database would handle it as efficiently as reasonably possible.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets/#distance-lte

Of course, the fact that every order has its own maximum distance makes it difficult... So, what I would do is enforce a "maximum" maximum distance, then use the function to limit your loop to those within that "maximum" distance.

So, for example, if the choice for maximum distance was <30 mi, then you take your point, find all the orders within 30 mi of the point using the function, and then loop to filter out the ones that are too far away. There might be an easier way to do this, but that's the best way I can find at the moment.

Are you able to run bitcoind on the server?

It may seem profitable to just speculate and hoard as many coins as possible, but the only way that Bitcoins gain lasting value is when people start actually using them as a currency, so it may be worth it to part with a few to get the ball rolling.

Ok, so I probably didn't need to start a repository for this, but I've never used git or github before, so I figured it'd be fun to try it out.

https://github.com/downloads/unfinishe/Bitcoin-Miner-Ding/ding.zip

I hope that this works. What you do is:

In one cmd window, run your miner from the command-line, except add the following onto the end.


This sends the output of your miner to a file.

Then in another cmd window, run ding.exe [word], which will scan the file every couple seconds to see whether the output includes the [word] in it. If it does, it will play ding.wav. Just use whatever word signifies in the output that a block has been generated in your miner.

It could definitely be written better, but hopefully it does the job!

I still like it when it rhymes. How about these:

Money doesn't grow on trees?
..this Bitcoiner disagrees!

Money doesn't grow on trees,
so use it without any fees!

Success! Thank you Maged!

I assume that you could restrict the connection in order to allow them to pay, kind of like in the airport hotspots (e.g. Boingo).

So, I just became aware that apparently Paypal sucks for these sort of transactions, but I'm willing to pay extra to anyone willing to take the risk. I'm still a newbie and that must be a big red flag, but honestly the last thing I want to do is ruin my chances for building a good reputation. If you're willing to give me the benefit of the doubt, please send me a PM.

(As for why I'm looking for 0.63, it's honestly all I can afford at the moment, and my OCD is nagging me to make my balance a nice round number. )

How about these:

Money doesn't grow on trees,
...it grows online!
...it grows from smart minds!
...it needs cryptographic keys! (Ooh, rhyming)

I'll keep brainstorming...

We should be safe... unless somebody has a secret quantum computer! 

Is it the difficulty jump?

Now that I think about it, I suppose I should probably stick with one at a time and let others do videos too. Since I'm more familiar with Javascript, I'd rather start with that one. I should have something to show by Monday.

Sounds like fun. I'd like to give a try for all three videos.

Are videos 1) and 2) meant for an audience that's completely new to programming?

You forgot the 10 minutes of awkward small chat while waiting for confirmation.