digitailor

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by digitailor 13y ago
If your pure Darwinian vision of the future were to manifest and hence there was no threat of prosecution, I'm pretty certain you'd be offed rapidly due to your savage annoyingness. The rule of law and the social norms that you de
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by digitailor 13y ago
I am perplexed at to what point you are trying to convey. I have some clarification questions for you in response. How did a statue provide more "nuance" to your education? Are you under the impression that a sculpture somehow gua
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by digitailor 13y ago
Does anyone know what the correlation is between the rapidly decreasing WinXP market share and the size of the large botnet pools?
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by digitailor 13y ago
I found this link as a source to help explain (it's good), I'm on the move: http://www.coindesk.com/china-leading-global-rise-bitcoin/
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by digitailor 13y ago
Re your comment about currency production costs: A spike in electricity costs would directly effect existing bitcoins' value. A spike in cloth paper prices would not cause a meaningful change in the value of already-printed dollars.
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by digitailor 13y ago
Yup you said it- it's not a major currency yet, so it's not "competition." ¥ -> BTC != ¥ -> $|€|£ etc. No manipulation of a central bank can effect BTC's value. Not only does yuan get "kept in the syste
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by digitailor 13y ago
>> Bitcoin is different in that is the purest form of a fiat currency in the sense that it is backed by nothing and thus has no intrinsic value whatsoever. It's backed by the tremendous amount of electricity required to run the
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by digitailor 13y ago
Ahh, someone on HN who understands stores of exchange-value. Refreshing. Just one of the many, many ways bitcoin is better than gold as a store of exchange-value: embedded security. No armored trucks, no vaults. And look at China. BTC'
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by digitailor 13y ago
I haven't tried this on a computer yet, just on the iPhone. So I can't address the above comments. But using touch, I think you have created the most intuitive 3-angle rotation I've used yet. The responsiveness is great, and
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by digitailor 13y ago
I'm confused by this. This guy has publicly admitted, in detail, that he started a site specifically in order to facilitate copyright infringement. Regardless of his view of his own "intention", this is a violation. He's
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by digitailor 13y ago
Yeah I agree my last point is weak.
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by digitailor 13y ago
My reply is coming late, but I can understand how my point could be unclear. Let's break it down for Zuckerburg's case, and see how it fits. Unfortunately I will have to resort to common lore. 1. "I have experience in this a
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by digitailor 13y ago
Exactly- that can be seen as CFO qualifications, a background that I think primed him for Amazon well. Amazon is a CFO-type idea- small margins, obscene volume, financially micromanage the infrastructure. To call Amazon a bookseller is miss
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by digitailor 13y ago
I've never met a successful entrepreneur who sits around trying to come up with business ideas. At the risk of sounding negative and grumpy, groan. Another one of these blogadoodoos. What follows is my $.02, some might disagree. From w
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by digitailor 13y ago
SVG integration with JS and the DOM has been elusive and underdeveloped in the past. Between this and d3, there's finally a lot happening in this space. These are very slick libs, they are thorough and comprehensive with very sophistic
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by digitailor 13y ago
I love when people see the potential to use HTML structure as a makeshift DAG. Similarly, once the DOM got fully grokked in the mid-2000s, it was if the web changed overnight. From flat documents to a flexible graph. And to do this without
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by digitailor 13y ago
That's what made me drop research into NoSQL a couple of years ago- the overly optimistic and magical thinking seemed to be really pervasive. I don't want to get burned from joining in a group delusion. (I'm not trying to say
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by digitailor 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience on this. We make a lot of custom enterprise intranet applications, and we've been considering adding MongoDB to our toolchest. My concern has been what you say- there will be customer resistance. That
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by digitailor 13y ago
As you talk about your background more I'm getting where you're coming from. GPUs are obviously more powerful and capable for high-end graphics disregarding power efficiency. And if you're doing Hadoop big data your perspecti
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by digitailor 13y ago
>> It's silly to make blanket statements like "FPGAs have become as capable, or more, than GPUs." Umm, you took "at a ridiculously higher level of efficiency" out of my quote in order to call it silly? C'
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by digitailor 13y ago
Parallella is an incredible project that I'm rooting for passionately. I am really looking forward to contributing to it, but we're more commercially oriented. Parallella is an Arduino/RP kind of project, and I have a feeling
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by digitailor 13y ago
Actually I just reread and saw you used the word "compete", I had read it as "complete". Now that's a cool idea you have there.
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by digitailor 13y ago
You're not out of line, and I haven't tried to hide the fact that I'm now professionally interested, in fact that's all I'm blabbing about below. But that's no coincidence- this is why I got into FPGAs: the pro
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by digitailor 13y ago
That's the idea. I've just put my email address in my profile, please contact me about this if you like.
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by digitailor 13y ago
You're right on the money... our platform will be exposing high-level languages to the user, specifically, functional, dynamic, interpreted ones. That's our ace in the hole. I'm intentionally not mentioning our company name b
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by digitailor 13y ago
That's a great usage of FPGAs, and part of the platform will enable you to choose what algorithms you want to boot on your cluster slice. (In the FPGA space these pre-built algorithm circuits are called "IP blocks".) we will
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by digitailor 13y ago
Absolutely. That's a major part of what we're working on. The Zynq, specifically, allows for this more than has been possible previously. When your ARM(s) and your programmable logic are on the same wafer, you can kick tasks over
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by digitailor 13y ago
I guess it really depends on the application space you're interested in. We are building a cloud-FPGA platform but the barrier is just as you mention- the user being able do the programming. The idea is more people could scale their pr
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by digitailor 13y ago
Totally agree, that's why I mentioned this is about technology accessibility and really not much else. That's what I mean by kludge- it's far from ideal, but it "just works." And it's funny you mention CPUs- Vo
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by digitailor 13y ago
You're right, I think BTC mining is our current best example of the trajectory of HPC. It proved from an economic point of view that GPUs are a kludge at best. BTC has really spread awareness about FPGA and ASIC technology. Highly capa

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