0.005 p/h ~ $3.60 per month for those who were wondering.
Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine but not Cloud Shell.
I – like most people – don’t let useless devices run on standby either, costing me upwards of 30$ a year for a TV on standby.
As a student, I don’t buy totally overpriced coffee that costs that much either.
Also, I’d still cut expenditures equally. Even my parents – both of which have studied law – do this. Actually, most people I know do. Why waste money on useless devices if it takes only seconds to unplug them?
Do you really think most people unplug their televisions after using them?
I seriously rewrote several web products myself that I'd have to normally pay 4$ or so per month for. I took over development for the QuasselDroid Android client because I could not afford IRCCloud. I ended up rewriting all the features of Reddit Gold last night as a browser extension because I can’t afford wasting money on Reddit Gold.
It’s problematic wasting money in one place, but for a dozen services at once? Nope, that’s gonna bankrupt a student who has no income except for a small grant.
I was just gilded this afternoon, and was able to confirm for the first time that new comment highlighting is not particularly hard for RES to pull off, it just doesn't do it for political reasons.
Hence, the only way would be to quietly develop an extension for the purpose... or, strike the jackpot, and come across someone who's done just that :D
Might I borrow your extension? =P
(My email address is in my profile if you prefer to respond that way)
So you’ll need to write an endpoint that stores the data somewhere, I'll link you my current solution.
First, the actual script that I load: http://cdn.kuschku.de/reddit-silver/reddit-silver-comments.j...
Second, the way I load it into the page: http://hastebin.com/raw/sugixafeve.js (You’ll need to adapt that, too, as Userscripts or extensions can’t easily interface with the rest of the page normally)
Third, the code of the endpoint that I use: http://hastebin.com/raw/gipubidevu.php
Last: You’ll need to set up localStorage.authkey to be equal to the auth key you set in the php script, you’ll want to host the PHP script on some server, and you’ll want to create an SQLite database on that server, give your PHP environment write access to that database, and initialize the database with a table:
CREATE TABLE `reddit-silver-comments`( `thread-id` TEXT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, `values` TEXT NOT NULL);
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You've definitely given me some awesome ideas with this. My implementation is likely to be slightly different, but your links are an awesome start and will definitely come in handy.
I'll likely take a while to get to actually implementing my idea (>.>), but I think it'd be cool to share my implementation when I (finally) finish it. How best can I get back to you in perhaps a month or two?
And the implementation is very simple: I just store every timestamp when you visit a thread (unless you visited it in the last 5 minutes already), and then just display those in a list.
Highlighting then all comments that were created after that timestamp is pretty simple.
40c per kWh is outrageous. This certainly goes a long way in explaining the dismal failure of Tesla in Germany so far.
And if more people are unplugging their TVs to save money than there are people wasting money on Starbucks coffees, then maybe, just maybe, saving 1.20$ per month on a VPS is worth it.
We almost lost our company's domain name twice due to their incompetence.
(Used OVH for several years, but my server with them has an uptime of 1034 days as of today, so customer service might very well be useless - I've never had a reason to talk to them)
But I have something that approximates bad luck. See my earlier posts about Project Fi.
I've been a very happy customer for years now.
We only got to know about this because of a standard email warning from the country's registry (not OVH as a registrar) itself about quarantaine and expiry!
We spent over eight hours over several days talking to OVH. I have been able to verify that the problem was on the side of OVH only, and not on the registry's side at all.
In the end, we made a direct payment to the registry to make sure the domain was not deleted.