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by joemi 9y ago
Adding to this, if a seller on Amazon sends you a different ISBN than the one you ordered, you can return it, because that's not what you ordered.
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by joemi 9y ago
This argument is akin to saying "now that anyone can publish a blog or tweet, what's the point of news places like NYT or WSJ?" I don't believe either negates the needs or benefits of the other. In addition to what other
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by joemi 9y ago
Though shouldn't the issue with used books being sold as new and ARCs being sold as new get sorted out just by customers complaining to Amazon about sellers? And if that doesn't fix it, isn't Amazon's handling of that th
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by joemi 9y ago
I'm not saying this accounts for the entirety of the crappy print-on-demand issue you're seeing, but it might account for some: a lot of big publishers make their backstock be POD if it's old enough. For instance, at the book
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by joemi 10y ago
I don't know about that. I think the visual programming aspect is the most defining trait, in which case...? I don't know any general purpose non-toy visual programming languages/interfaces. Scratch exists but likening PD to
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by joemi 10y ago
Csound is more analogous to GCC than it is to Vim, though. I'd say something akin to Vim would be a tracker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
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by joemi 10y ago
I always had a really big problem with the site: so little attribution (proper or otherwise) of images.
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by joemi 10y ago
I thought it did make it to Amazon for retail price but it sold out pretty instantly?
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by joemi 10y ago
Either you're trying to start an argument that I want no part of, or you're asking the wrong person. I don't have much experience with any linux desktops (I've just done server stuff mostly), so I have no idea. Hence why
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by joemi 10y ago
> IMO Ubuntu is now superior to OSX in almost every way. Out of genuine curiosity, what are the ways it's not superior?
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by joemi 10y ago
A hammer is also a tool of non-fascist regimes, though. Is restriction of free speech also a tool of non-fascist regimes?
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by joemi 10y ago
I believe this[1] and this[2] are what was being referred to... There were actual measures in place to suppress Nazism by suppressing free speech. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#West_Ger... [2]
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by joemi 10y ago
Restriction of free speech is a tool of fascist regimes. You don't fight fascism by becoming a fascist yourself.
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by joemi 10y ago
Similar situation with Narco News[1] (though I know nothing of its journalistic standards)... I had a friend who was working for them in Mexico about 15 years ago, and he ended up quitting and leaving the country after a co-worker was kille
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by joemi 10y ago
I don't see how that can be right... The store I work for sells on Amazon and we've listed things that Amazon doesn't sell (and never has sold). Each time we did that and the product sold well for a month or two straight, Ama
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by joemi 10y ago
It's a bit less weird when you consider the fact that the random software engineer is the person who set up the NYT's social media account.
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by joemi 10y ago
I get that you were talking about FBA... I was just ranting a bit about middleman sellers in general I guess. You didn't need to do a point by point explanation of why it doesn't apply to FBA, especially after you surmised I wasn&
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by joemi 10y ago
That happened to me once at a bookstore I worked at. We realized that a coursebook we sold decently in-store was getting ordered on Amazon a bunch too, to the point we'd sell out. So next semester we sent a bunch to FBA, sold them all.
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by joemi 10y ago
Middleman sellers might not technically be a scam, but it's not often beneficial to all parties. I've spent some time working for a bookstore that has decent quantity of sales on Amazon, so that's where my perspective comes f
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by joemi 10y ago
Given that it was a few years ago, I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure I only saw paperbacks.
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by joemi 10y ago
Are createspace books still of a noticeably lesser quality printing than non-print-on-demand books? I saw a few a while (a few years?) ago, and the quality offended me, so I wrote off createspace. I'd be interested to learn that's
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by joemi 10y ago
It's never been ideal for me, but it's usually been "good enough" for me. But with each new release, it gets less so. My needs aren't really changing, but what and how iTunes delivers is changing, getting further an
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by joemi 10y ago
Based solely on that sentence, no, you're not the the only one. But based on the entire piece, I don't think he paints a very good picture of himself.
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by joemi 10y ago
> Are you saying that the iPhone camera can read QR code out of the box? No, I meant that iOS doesn't have any built-in apps for it, so I always assumed Android must since QR codes are so prevalent.
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by joemi 10y ago
As an iOS user, I always assumed QR code reading was just built into Android's camera app. Is that not so?
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by joemi 10y ago
The author of the blogpost in another comment around here said he aliased csvtool to cat, hence cat'ing a csv. That said, unless there's another CLI csvtool program, the one I've read about can't plot. But there are CLI
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by joemi 10y ago
Didn't read the article but I've played the game. As I mentioned, I've been playing roguelikes for a long time, and I think that definitely has to do with my lack of hatred for the UI.
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by joemi 10y ago
Not arguing at all about being skeptical, but regarding 'cat' it's entirely possible they just had the wrong file extension on that ascii art chart. I've definitely given some plaintext files incorrect extensions if I kn
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by joemi 10y ago
I wouldn't say the UI/UX has been completely ignored. In fact, to a large extent I'd say it's been quite deliberately designed. The lack of "graphics" does not necessarily lessen a game, especially one like thi
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by joemi 10y ago
While this is great to have another fulfillment service available (though there already are other choices than Amazon for fulfillment services), I'm not so sure how much this will actually impact Amazon. Does anyone know what percentag

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