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by bromley 14y ago
Quick tip for anyone making a system with high load and daily or hourly quotas: When an account is created, assign a random start time (e.g. 05:43 for daily quotas or minute 12 for hourly) to measure that account's quotas against. Then you
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by bromley 14y ago
FastSpring is worth a look. My company (also European) has been using them successfully for subscription billing for over a year. I really like their system.
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Modern Meadow aims to print raw meat using bioprinter(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by bromley 14y ago|0 comments
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by bromley 14y ago
I doubt there's too much of a learning curve as the new API is pretty similar to Joda Time: http://blog.joda.org/2009/11/why-jsr-310-isn-joda-time_4941....
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by bromley 14y ago
If you are out (at work or on holiday), but you need a maid or repair person to have access to your house, I'm guessing with this you can: a) grant them access without the hassle of getting another key cut and less of the awkwardness of tru
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by bromley 14y ago
To clarify, their system was Java/JSP running on Tomcat, and they rewrote it in PHP: http://troutgirl.wordpress.com/2004/06/29/friendster-goes-ph... I found it both enjoyable and disappointing to read the many opinions shared in the comme
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by bromley 14y ago
I am lucky that my business is in a fairly low-competition niche where having a great site really is enough to get in the game. I've not noticed much in the way of link buying amongst the sites in my niche, and link buying is not a world t
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Open Letter to Matt Cutts: On Penalties & the New Link Disavow Tool(hungrypiranha.org)
2 points by bromley 14y ago|1 comments
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by bromley 14y ago
If anyone fancies suing the Whitehouse to make a point, here's a picture of what appears to be a relevant violation: https://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_image_pages/0519-090...
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by bromley 14y ago
And also the fear of an app (and consequently the API) getting hammered by the mobile equivalent of a clickbot (should such a thing exist), or some developer on the product accidentally programming in an infinite loop. Oops, there goes thou
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by bromley 14y ago
I'm not sure that's necessarily true. On the web, it's often the less savvy users that convert best in response to advertising. For example, a lot of money is made online selling payday loans, ringtone-related subscription-billing junk, and
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by bromley 14y ago
Have you taken a look at FastSpring? A nice, flexible system for recurring billing and one-off payments. They act as a reseller too which makes for simple accounting as you only have one direct customer: them. We've been using them for sev
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by bromley 14y ago
I think most sites would lose far more sign-ups to a required activation email (going unnoticed in a spam folder or sent to a typo address and assumed delayed and forgotten) than to the occasional rejection of a legitimate email with peculi
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by bromley 14y ago
It sounds like he may have made his exit in front of the other candidates. I can see the company being frustrated by that as it would naturally be likely to make the other candidates view their potential new employer less favorably. If he w
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by bromley 14y ago
If you have one single instance only, I'm not sure there is any point. But if you want your app to auto-scale upwards to add EC2 instances if the load increases, then the load balancer is necessary. It enables all your EC2 instances to be
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by bromley 14y ago
I've been using the Java version of Beanstalk to run a commercial API - http://www.degreedays.net/api/ - for about 12 months. So far it's been working out very well. I love how you can dip into the EC2 APIs if/when you need to, but it's
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by bromley 14y ago
Also, cooling systems are generally less efficient than heating systems, which would increase summer energy consumption (and CO2) more than the reduction in winter. That's assuming the overall US climate (by which I mean population- or ener
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by bromley 14y ago
Average temperatures aren't a great predictor of energy consumption. Yes, warmer winters mean less heating requirement, but warmer summers mean greater cooling requirement. Not such a factor for Jan-Mar in the US, admittedly. Typically hea
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by bromley 14y ago
I've been very happily paying for a fastmail.fm business account for the last few years. A rock-solid system, and great at handling lots of addresses on multiple domains. No affiliation, just a very happy customer.
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by bromley 14y ago
That makes sense. I was thinking that supporting the 6 customers might have been easy. Shifting focus fully to other things clearly worked out well for you, and I admire the ballsy decision to do that in spite of the the loss of revenue.
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by bromley 14y ago
Crikey, yes, I somehow misread the £ sign as $. Alas too late to edit my post now.
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by bromley 14y ago
6 customers at $199 a month is almost $1200 per month. Sure, it's not a fortune, but I wonder why it wasn't enough for "leave it running, work on something else, cash the checks, see what happens" to at least be one of the options.
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by bromley 14y ago
My company is based in the UK, and FastSpring has so far been working very well for our recurring billing. I think you're only very limited if you're selling subscription products with such low margins that paying 6% or so to a reseller is
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by bromley 15y ago
Perhaps I'm unusual but I think it would be more useful if it emailed early evening* before the beautiful day. By the time the beautiful day has come I'll be able to see it out the window. Either way I do love the idea. Nice one! * I'll exp
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by bromley 15y ago
It's possible that could work. Our current testing API is rate limited only on IP address but if we required a sign-up we'd have more options. A free tier couldn't go too far out of control if we could stop taking new sign-ups at any time
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by bromley 15y ago
Thanks for your thoughts there! Yes we are working off of WU's data. They have an awesome database of weather data and they've been very kind in allowing us to use the temperature part of it for our degree days system. We do have a free A
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by bromley 15y ago
These are fair concerns. The journalist just wrote a related blog post at http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/modern-thermometers-1132/ that discusses the "experience" of temperature more. An improvement on the analysis might be to adjust al
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by bromley 15y ago
My company came up with this data for the Wall Street Journal, so I should explain that the title here is a bit of an over-simplification. The main point is that if you sort in ascending order on e.g. the "Average number of degrees temperat
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Global Cities Ranked by Time Spent in Optimal Temperature Range (Click Headers)(online.wsj.com)
6 points by bromley 15y ago|7 comments
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by bromley 15y ago
When you call your bank they generally pick up the phone. In contrast it seems the only way to get help from Google is to know someone influential or have a high profile blog on which you can embarrass them publicly.

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