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Dungeon Crawler Carl is a rare gem that I've come across lately, very unique, paces well and I couldn't put it down - https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl

The audiobook is also really well narrated.

This is a different API than for App Store billing afaik

They don't understand the model where SaaS businesses use Shopify as a billing channel on top of their own subscription model, it's all or nothing - they assume that anything in the app store can only use Shopify billing if the user installs via Shopify, which is fair but their billing API has glaring issues:

- App Charges get added to clients bills, you're not getting paid right away (60+ days in some cases) vs getting paid instantly

- If someone doesn't pay their Shopify bill, tough shit you're not getting paid

- Got fraudulent accounts billing via Shopify? They can use your app then never pay anything - fun

- Want to do refunds? Too bad there's no way to do it via the API you have to manually email Shopify then they apply an App Credit (not even a refund) for the customer, then you email them back

- Uninstalling the Shopify App cancels billing, so you lose complete control of your normal downgrade process

- Payments come via PayPal bi monthly :(

There's plenty more, but you're basically losing all the upside of Stripe in exchange for the App Store promotion of your app.

Been using Puma in clustered mode for almost a year now & it blows away any of the other alteratives (for our use case) by a large margin.

Found it difficult to follow once "today" got down to 1px in size. Shows us just how insignificant we are compared to time itself.

Whilst it's truly amazing that they've found 3 separate photos of the same person in the same spot at the blast there's a few questions that come to mind:

- If he was planning to commit the atrocity he did, why would you stand & talk to someone? (unless they were perhaps working together)

- There's a water bottle in the backpack which leads me to believe that person is a runner?

- The bag seems a bit small to hold a 6L pressure cooker. Plus he doesn't seem to be straining/leaning forward.

- If you're standing in the crowd most people will take a backpack off & put it at their feet?

- The crowd in the second & third photos is much busier which means it's not the same spot. If you planted a bomb why would you stand in the crowd?

Been trying to line up the flags in the last 2 photos to get an idea of where he's standing but can't manage it.

It was no surprise this was coming after the handouts at SXSW.

We did an interview with Linode last month about some of their new upgrades: http://blog.serverbear.com/interview/linode/

You can also see some benchmark data from the new E5 CPU's here:

Dallas - http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/04/07/FxVC0fV6q5GAMa1j Fremont - http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/4/6/TX3w1Zx5dRK13MJi

I dunno, seems like the firing is more to seem like they are "doing the right thing" I personally don't think someone should be let go over comments that are part of a private conversation. It was fine for Adria Richards to make sexist jokes on Twitter yet SendGrid firmly stand by her as a company.

Playhaven should have done the same.

Thanks! ^_^

That is a pretty good idea, I'll pop it into our roadmap. We've got a chunk of time allocated this month to work on some stuff & that's an easy quick win :)

We monitor uptime :)

http://serverbear.com/9683/linode#view-uptime-beta

Plus benchmarks etc (user run, which means you get a decent dataset to compare by server spec/location).

http://serverbear.com/9683/linode#view-benchmarks http://serverbear.com/9806/digitalocean#view-benchmarks

We've actually considered ticket response times, a lot of hosts use WHMCS to manage their nodes - which we could make a plugin for. But a large amount of the more established hosts use a custom system.

Problem is, ticket response time isn't an indication of quality. Anyone could respond with a "We're looking into it" within 5 mins & not get a resolution for a few hours.

I've recently moved to an iPhone 5 after being on Android for a few years. I'm a heavy Gtalk user & it pains me that there's no official Google app for it on iOS - something I'd love to see.

Been using DataShack lately: https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/

I pay roughly $78 a month for this: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF

Here's two Rasbperry Pi Benchmarks (these are also pre 512mb model), bear in mind these are both just run from home networks:

http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/11/ENc5kl1X2ZciF0LZ

http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/08/gcMHO1PDOY6Crq2W

Compare with the Micro performance:

http://serverbear.com/166-micro-amazon-web-services

From my testing the Raspberry Pi benchmarks similar to the Amazon Micro instance. Happy to post some results if you want to see them.

Fairly similar performance, but almost $20 difference in price.

Here's some data comparing the 1GB plans:

Linode 1GB: http://serverbear.com/13-linode-1024-linode

Prgmr 1GB: http://serverbear.com/1709-1024mib-prgmr-com

Amazon's IO/IOPS performance is pale on comparison to a lot of providers (shameless plug): http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/io

Does TechCrunch have an army of upvoters? just seems like their posts come from nowhere to the front page with almost no discussion.

One of the co-founders here, there's a lot of stuff we're working on but would love to hear any other feedback anyone has (of if you have any questions!)

I'm assuming this is BPM, if you want something a bit harder. IMO needs an option for ambient/downtempo stuff I personally find it hard to get stuff done to dance music.

Ran some benchmarks, really insane IOPS on this plan. Pretty average CPU performance (they're using fairly old E5620's).

http://blog.serverbear.com/post/27553311076/hi1-4xlarge-benc...

Storm on Demand have done SSD storage for a while now, pretty solid IOPS numbers too. I'll run a benchmark comparison tonight.

We're about to launch a service that allows comparison of benchmarks from cloud providers (UnixBench/IO & BW), would love to run it on your plans to compare against Amazon etc.

http://serverbear.com/benchmarks

This just seems like a wrapper around Viglink? Not entirely sure what the value add is here other than shortening URL's.

Viglink IMO take 25% off the commission, which means 75% is available to go to Refer.ly/User. Not sure what percentage Refer.ly is planning to take for themselves but might not leave much left for the user.

As someone who has built a platform that aggregates all the affiliate networks into one place, it's a royal pain. Viglink take away that pain, but for a price & in order to provide the best value to your users in the long run you'll probably have to become an aggegrator yourselves.

Stripping affiliate links is pretty easy, however it's pretty hard to know all the possible combinations from all the networks.

Skimlinks already ignores their redirect if the link is already affiliated so I'm guessing they could just reverse this logic & have a solution.

Trying to be more like Wolfram imo, there's still lots of searches where Google fails for me, for example doing a search for "est time" currently gives the time in Eastern Kenya. Wolfram gives me the EST time in Australia (because that's where I am), if I change the query slightly to "east usa time" then in Google I get nothing, in Wolfram they show me the difference between the EST time in Australia vs the USA.

For me the main issue is that as you get older the barrier to entry for you to move from Job -> Startup gets greater.

I'm 29, have 2 mortgages & an amazing son (that my wife looks after - therefore she isn't working anymore). So my responsibilities as a husband & father are to ensure I can continue to provide for my family.

This hasn't stopped my entrepreneurial side at all, but it means that in order for my company to support myself & my cofounder we have to pay ourselves a significant salary compared to renting/working in a house together & not worrying too much about bills/salary.

Been using Edgecast via Speedyrails for a few years now. Top quality CDN.

Agreed on this setup, I have a blog that does 500k+ visits a month on 2x512 Linode VPS and it barely goes above 0.1 load.

Skimlinks does have subids I think, so technically they could "share" the revenue with users if they wanted to. Hypothetically.