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13y ago
The difficulty would rise to compensate for the advent of quantum computing. The danger of quantum computing in bitcoin is holding the 51%+ computing power and being able to forge transactions in the 'books'. Source: http:/&
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ASICs are going to rid a large amount of pools. GPU mining and FPGA mining will fade out, because the value returned will be so minimal compared to these monsters. There is a finite amount of bitcoins released for a set amount of time. The
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13y ago
While mining litecoins, a capacitor in my power supply blew up. I saw a huge jolt of blue, my monitor lost connection and finished up with some smoke.
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13y ago
I'm no expert on wavelengths, but 'American creates a filter to fit over Google Glass's camera to block out near-infrared?'
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13y ago
Today you, tomorrow me. Just to add content: hardware, software, programming, protocols, networks, chips, cords, formats, and onward. We are in a profession that creates a certain amount of ego once we have overcome an obstacle. There is an
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It is truly a shame the cost of the Pixel is so high. During my Google Glass intro, I had the chance to use a Pixel during the meeting. My wife was more attracted to the Pixel than the Glass. They probably could have sold her one that day i
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13y ago
I had a landlord in Wisconsin which kept the deposit and charged an extra $200 (for weathering a high traffic area of the carpet). My current landlord is in Texas. My landlords from Mississippi were much shadier and would shame your reputat
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13y ago
I dream of a day when I can walk into an area which offers 'services' and be offered a pricing chart. From hospitals, banks, loan officers, home loans, cars, etc. A cryptic itemized list, such as a mortgage's Good Faith Estim
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13y ago
I just do not have any fear around things that happened in 1998.
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I am currently experiencing the same phenomena. Prior to being educated to code, I could hack until 5AM. Post-school, I can barely toy with a new language. Most side projects seem inadequate or too overwhelming! Even in the workforce, I com
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13y ago
" So yes, Marco is absolutely correct that Google's becoming a company that, like Facebook, is more interested in bringing developers in after their products have gained traction with users. This is also how Apple has acquired so
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Spider web hoorah. Runs surprisingly well on my ~2003 processor in Ubuntu with Firefox 14. In comparison, Gmail with hangouts is slower than this display. http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwBhAY0ArQE4AUz/AAACIwG0Ah...
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13y ago
http://www.momentofgeekiness.com/2013/01/31/instacode-instag... The actual site is down. http://instacode.linology.info/
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I was actually just checking it out for myself. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpollcppsp/ https://github.com/xaxaxa/workspace/ Seems to be a C++ framework with dynamics in the form of
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The 'Glass experience' is nothing more than a scripted over-courteous event. As a developer with social anxiety, my Glass experience was spending quality time with my wife as we ventured throughout LA. Unboxing is not interesting
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I just picked up my Glass on June 27th. The first thing that bothered me was the voice recognition. The woman at the front desk asked if I was Irish, another French, and a person at the bar asked about my accent. I'm from Mississippi a
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13y ago
The one on Valley Mills is much easier on the pornographic indulging soul. The one I mentioned was near 18th and I35 on the way towards the Planned Parenthood clinic. Haha.
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There is a bench on our main road that says 'Watching porn will lose you your JOB FAMILY FRIENDS AND KIDS. PORN WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE.' Caps are not my emphasis. Glorious Waco, TX. Two miles away was a billboard of a mother disca
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13y ago
I had the same thought as I read it again. The results of too many emotionless requirements/business/functional documents.
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I enjoy all Priceonomics articles. I also enjoy the service they provide to users. I hope the experience at that company is as enjoyable to work for as the content is to consume. I started using the service after reading the blog posts from
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Finally, someone started taking my advice! This is very interesting. I never considered that homeowners might put up fake signs to detour the public. "Special logo thanks! ---> We'll put your logo / icon (280 x 280 px) PLU
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Ethics. Plain and simple. Computer scientists are given the ability to destroy people's lives, destroy companies, and destroy themselves. I do not care if they're gathering massive amounts of data. I would prefer there to be a sys
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Without the 'back link', it cannot redirect you to your original search. Your 'from location' is google.com/sorry, so, once you pass the test, it sends you back to google.com/sorry instead of back to your previ
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That was the first thing I tried too. I expected the window to popup and say something along the lines of "You need to be logged in...". Nope. Insta-update.
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Zombie accountants, lawyers, medical personnel, soap opera actors, and I smell a market. There should be a zombie channel that mimics current shows with zombie based shows. Any duplicated zombie-based shows would instead show zombies being
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13y ago
Can you create a landing page with an executive summary and pricing button? I cannot show my boss a blog post. Just hit the high points: 12 week course in web security, $1000, increased proficiency in x, y, z, ability to do a, b, c, protect
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IBM has made a similar claim using Twitter's Firehose and natural language processing to determine a general overview of people's feelings towards a film. The solution was to tell the film advertisers to toss out more engaging tra
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Continuous deployment principles do not fly in businesses where IT/programming departments are considered a cost center. We are seen as 'burning money' rather than 'generating money.' Our opposing view is: without our programs, we would go
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13y ago
I have not noticed any odd activity. My card has been with Linode for years.
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If I had penetrated the bot net, provided full documentation on the incident and cleansed the drones or controller I would be placed in jail for 30+ years.
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