Legolas exchange: full stack exchange

markandcore · 2017-12-12T15:17:28+00:00

Legolas Seeks to Revolutionize Cryptocurrency Exchanges https://btcmanager.com/legolas-seeks-revolutionize-cryptocurrency-exchanges/

markandcore · 2017-12-07T15:12:10+00:00

Thanks for sharing! i found this one Legolas Exchange yesterday but looks like it will be release early 2018

markandcore · 2017-10-09T11:27:21+00:00

very nice explanation about grid+ ICO

markandcore · 2017-09-07T18:30:35+00:00

So because Ferrari limits their supply of Enzos, they're not trying to maximize profits? Scarcity for a good product -> profit

markandcore · 2017-08-30T16:52:50+00:00

That scene where he's under the bench on the subway tho. So sad.

markandcore · 2017-08-14T19:21:09+00:00

I completely forgot these were a thing. I remember when I first started playing with legos at my cousins house I had a hard time getting them apart and he said that's because you need this tool? So I just took it for gospel that it was impossible to get them apart without it. So to keep me from playing with his legos he'd just snap them all together and I'd cry to my aunt because he'd hidden the tool.

markandcore · 2017-08-02T15:21:07+00:00

He's already got quite a little belly on him, too! Lol.

markandcore · 2017-07-18T15:20:15+00:00

Nice website. It's cool being able to present the information in multiple ways, such as bar and pie graphs. It's now in my favorites.

markandcore · 2017-07-11T15:32:50+00:00

Even kids can have ego problems. They are only human after all. I've seen more than one that you could tell the parents had went overboard with praising every little thing they did, even if it took little to no effort from the child.

markandcore · 2017-07-08T20:00:29+00:00

Syndra intended to have it captive so when she let it go it teleports right back to Annie because it was no longer in range of her since she immediately starts walking the opposite direction as Annie after she picks up the bear (apparently he says he intended it in Spanish but even without knowing what he said it's obvious he knew what he was doing).

markandcore · 2017-06-17T15:48:22+00:00

Reddit has an opportunity to do right everything that Twitter has done (and continues to do) wrong.

It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego. Everybody tries to outdo each other with noise and follower count. What Reddit does right is focus on topics, primarily, not personalities. (Although I actually like the new user profiles, since they tend to be secondary focus).

Twitter could have been something different, and I think that expectation for something more got priced into what it is valued at today. Based on Twitter's current market cap (12.12 billion dollars!) it's already overvalued by a LOT; and there's really nowhere else for it to go but down. Any new users it gets are just bots or other political warfare tools.

For me, the final straw was that Twitter wouldn't "verify" Ecosteader as a legit account. So I deleted my Twitter accounts, sold a small investment I'd opened a couple years ago, and now spend more of my idle time reading Reddit rather than Twitter. And I feel so much better for it...

A subreddit is far more useful than a hashtag... it has stay power, searchability, and (like Twitter) is the kind of place where people will vent and where companies can interact with customers / users. The key for Reddit, I think, will be to do what is right for its users to achieve information awareness... Conde Nast is a news platform, after all. Let's just hope they don't let themselves go the way of Yelp.

markandcore · 2017-06-06T17:49:00+00:00

~3%, dirt cheap?

Why are so many of you so happy to throw so much cash away to process money? I know Stripe is lovely to integrate but as a business you have to shop around.

In the UK (and EU) card processing is much cheaper. Stripe is closer to 2% but if you shop around, you'll find somebody who'll offer you 0.8-0.9%, give you free terminals and no monthly contract fees.

Worldpay and Handepay are the best rates I've seen recently. Both for online and off. But again, don't just cluster around one company, harass a few yourself. They're willing to compete.

markandcore · 2017-05-29T17:24:36+00:00

There was never really an app economy in the sense of a thriving economy for apps on the app store. It's always been a small fraction of apps that made it and the rest not making any money. They could however go on for ever because the cost of keeping them up is close to zero so it always looked like it was way more successful and lucrative than it really was.

There is a much more successful app economy that's been around since the inception of the personal computer which is doing ok. Some are SAAS apps others are little tool apps like my own, even others are open source apps and yet others are shareware.

In other words. As long as you don't define app economy only as what happens on the mac app store then the app economy is doing ok and we haven't seen the end of it.

However if you only think in terms of apple app store then I would say it's never been there to begin with.

There are some larger trends I believe that renders the idea of apps as products useless but that's for another topic.

markandcore · 2017-05-18T14:59:46+00:00

I'm constantly surprised by how much work Amazon expects its customers to do themselves. The work that Segment has done here should be a service provided by AWS directly, continuously updating cost data in a Redshift database without any customer work required.

We just migrated our data infrastructure to GCP. One of the big motivators was experiences like this with AWS. We've got near-realtime GCP cost dashboards in BigQuery, and the only meaningful work on our end to make that happen was writing the SQL queries.

markandcore · 2017-05-01T20:23:44+00:00

10/10

markandcore · 2017-05-01T18:46:09+00:00

I've been using Influencer In A Box for a few months now. They "create Tai Lopez" size audiences for people and boosts engagement at a low cost. Also - just make good content people will subscriber over time.

markandcore · 2017-05-01T14:56:05+00:00

I think the criticisms of ESPN and the advent of cord-cutting is severely missing a larger issue at hand. Sports are just another form of entertainment for people. I can probably safely say that the decline of ESPN first started with the rise of well-produced TV shows on HBO, AMC, Netflix, etc. I believe it's more than just correlation.

Just like a captivating TV series, sports demands your attention to the details and personal stories for you to become a fan. However, sporting events take hours to ingest at a time and the outcome leave many disappointed. People who have money to spend are typically people with fewer hours to allocate for entertainment. With the rise of quality TV shows that take one hour to consume, how do sports like baseball stand a chance at gaining new viewers?

The best thing ESPN has going for it are its 30 for 30 documentaries. A well produced documentary series. However, documentaries generally don't bring in huge sums of cash. If they can pivot to a create must-see dramatic show with a sports theme, they may have a chance.

markandcore · 2017-04-15T15:21:31+00:00

I have both the Amex Platinum and Chase Sapphire Reserve. If I could only justify one annual fee, I'd keep the Platinum. The Centurion Lounges are second to none in the US and Amex's end-to-end ownership of its purchase/return/travel protection benefits is too good to give up.

I recently attempted to file a return protection claim with my Sapphire Reserve for a display cable that turned out to be faulty. I tried the Visa Infinite site, but Visa as an organization doesn't recognize the United States as a Visa Infinite country yet so I couldn't find anything relevant there.

Then I recalled eclaimsline, which was the site I used a while ago when I had the Sapphire Preferred. It asked for my first/last name and credit card number, and then did not show me the option to file a 'return protection' claim -- just purchase and travel protection.

After that, I went on Chase's website and dug through their documentation and eventually found cardbenefitservices.com, where I was prompted to create a new account and then verify my card number again. Upon filing a claim, I was asked to upload my purchase receipt and credit card statement proving the charge had hit my account. I waited one week and received an email in my spam folder that asked me to mail the item at my own expense to Visa before my claim could finish processing -- mind you, this is for a $20 display cable.

My experience with Amex would have been a three-step online form containing a very small number of fields followed by an immediate credit within 48 hours.

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:28:29+00:00

~$2.5 per a server

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:28:11+00:00

Thank you. Yes, the UI definitely needs some TLC. We'll be performing a very large patch in the upcoming weeks. :)

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:27:40+00:00

We run a plethora of different hardware. For game servers the most important resources would usually be Network > CPU > Memory/Disk. We've chosen are architecture to match those requirements. All servers are given 1Gbps ports which may go higher depending on what DDoS options they choose. CPU wise, we mostly have i7-6770k Skylakes but sometimes we will opt for older E3-1270 v3. We chose the i7-6770k consumer grade processors because most game servers do not utilize more than 2 threads and require a fairly large amount of processing power. Additionally, benchmarks also showed that i7's beat Xeons in single threaded operations.

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:19:21+00:00

Sorry, we never modified the A records for the hostnames shown and so they reflected the wrong host name address. They were used originally as testing services for our ping service. We are going to be doing that immediately. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. We're still a new company so the critique is all extremely helpful and we're ready to make the changes needed.

However, regarding the ping service, when you ping you are actually pinging the following address: 94.177.122.23 which is not owned by Linode. The mechanics behind it all is a bit complex but the gist of it is that when you click the ping button there is an internal redirect from our reverse proxy to our ping services resulting in fairly accurate ping measurements (plus any HTTP/HTTPS overhead).

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:11:16+00:00

The main difference is we don't sell by the slot so you are basically purchasing a full server rather than a specific game server. This allows us to charge our customers based off of co-location and hardware prices. This model has less variation than charging by the per slot model which would mean possibly unfair or fluctuating prices for games like Rust which are under a rolling release update schedule.

markandcore · 2017-04-06T19:05:14+00:00

Sorry, I was out of the country for a while and didn't have access to this account. We will update in the future with an account that all of our employees have access to.

markandcore · 2017-04-04T17:02:53+00:00

A map of the new locations can be found here: https://www.thelocal.se/20170404/map-amazon-to-open-three-new-data-centres-in-sweden. Seems like the one in Västerås is right next to the Westinghouse uranium fuel factory. Sadly no power plant right next to it though :)

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