Or, y’know, my dorky voice talking with an old friend about nerdy stuff. You could describe it that way too… I’ve been so busy with all the drama and illness lately that I damn near forgot to mention my latest project – a podcast called Codex Nerdicus. My old friend Dave Wolfe and I have had [...]
It’s no secret which side of the Butterfly Labs love/hate fence I fall – I think they’re great guys who make good products. I talk to Sonny and Josh pretty regularly and eagerly await the release of their ASIC product line, but even I have to call a duck a duck: BFL is terrible with [...]
Hey look everyone, it’s a box with fans! In all seriousness, though, this is kind of a big deal. Avalon has officially won the hard fought battle to be the first ASIC manufacturer to actually ship a product. How that product will withstand competition and hold up under 24/7 use and abuse, only time will [...]
It’s been a slow couple of months here at Coding In My Sleep – between the Bitcoin world taking a much-needed breather (read: nothing much happened) and my personal life exploding/imploding (read: bought a house) I have not been my usual post-a-day self. Well today I break that streak: I’m heading to the 2013 International [...]
The outright thievery of content is nothing new on the ‘net. Most of us remember the case of TheOatmeal vs FunnyJunk and its particularly humorous conclusion but sometimes the answers aren’t so cut-and dry. The legalities and specifics of various situations are hardly clear but it seems like the ethics should be. It’s also entirely possible [...]
What you’re looking at is called an ExoStent. It’s basically a compression bandage that wraps around the ascending aorta and applies external pressure, reinforcing the critically important blood vessel in the same way you would wrap or clamp a high-pressure hose in a car or boiler. It’s an amazing improvement in medical technology that is [...]
As the actual release of their ASIC line grows nearer, the one thing you can’t really say of Butterfly Labs is that they don’t know how to tease an audience. Every time the chatter on the forums, IRC, reddit and elsewhere dies down, they let fly with another little tidbit of information or a product [...]
I recently received an email from the “Facebook Ads Team” offering me $50 worth of advertising credit. They wanted me to try out facebook’s advertising services, I assume in hopes that I’d be so astonished by its cost efficiency and effectiveness that I’d go buy real ads with what remains of my life savings. I [...]
Earlier this year, the news media was buzzing with anticipation as an American court heard a patent infringement lawsuit in which Apple claimed that Samsung had ripped off several prominent features of the iPhone and related devices. In a stunning verdict that Samsung is still appealing, Apple was awarded over 1 billion dollars in damages [...]
Today in the “obvious science is obvious” category: A Stanford University study confirms that reading is good for your brain. Turns out all this blogging is a bona fide public service after all! What’s the big deal? I mean, this only seems to confirm things we already knew (or at least suspected) but we have [...]
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