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They are infinitely divisible

I think the idea is that you can move the threshold on when to implement in Fortran/C(++) since you only have a '1x-5x slowdown' for most common application compare to the 20x-5000x slowdown with R/Python/Matlab/..

That's just glib. People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products.

If you can only look at bitcoins from the viewpoint of turning a quick buck, then you are not able to see a substantial part of the elephant.

My guess is that bitcoins are mainly used for college students' and drug hobbyists' $50 purchases of LSD and the like on silk road and not for big transactions.

How far back does your score data go?

If you have worked a lot with R you won't be surprised that anything is faster than R

It is possible here in Denmark. There is a very safe and unique ID for everyone, the kicker is that it costs $0.60 per user/year to utilize.

It takes a hell of a lot of $50 websites to pay an average programmer's salary

Exactly, OP does not understand the role RAM plays in computers.

It is a disappointment for me to see the link get so many points in this community where you would expect the baseline of knowledge of technology to be 'above the average'.

Static. On this site I host mostly huge-ass html files (about 1 MB per request) with apache 2 and mod_deflate :-)

There is also a wordpress site and another database-request-heavy site with 500 requests a day.

The problems I had was that the access.log and error.log quickly ate up the 5GB space of the micro instance :-) Causing mysql to stop operating and me to scratch my head for a few minutes.

5GB is not a lot .. you want ruby1.9 with the default setup? That will be 180MB, and so on :-)

It's a small point to make but there are no cat videos on my small corner of facebook :)