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by juanre 12y ago
Sure. When you buy the printout the PDF gets computed, and an email is automatically sent to a US-based print service provider who prints and ships. You can also download the PDFs. When you buy the PDF only (the most popular version, desp
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by juanre 12y ago
Thank you! And you are right, my strength has never been graphic design. But a significant fraction of visitors are buying, so I'd be inclined to spend the resources in gaining visibility.
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by juanre 12y ago
Greaterskies, http://greaterskies.com - sells posters of the sky, thousands of stars and all the planets as seen from a place and at a time. Selling PDF ($24) and printout. Seems to be getting popular as a wedding present, als
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Making the computer work for you: screen, python and math(juanreyero.com)
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The case for squeezing the rich, even when it doesn't raise money(crookedtimber.org)
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Reproducible research with emacs, orgmode and python [video](youtube.com)
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Why some people are more cautious than others(economist.com)
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Speaking Python(juanreyero.com)
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Economic growth can actually continue for ever(freakonomics.com)
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Social mobility in the US hasn't fallen(newyorker.com)
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The way of the program: introduction to programming as seen from the shell(juanreyero.com)
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by juanre 13y ago
If you want to understand the classic economic models you might find useful the python implementation I wrote a while ago of some of them. Inspired in Caltech's Principles of Economics for Scientists, they still lack supporting documen
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by juanre 13y ago
Economists call it "increasing utility". When, in a free market with perfect information, you part with your money in exchange of a good it is assumed to be because the good has higher utility for you than the money it costs. A
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by juanre 13y ago
Don't learn for employability. Find something you want to build, teach yourself the best tools for the task ---or the ones you find more exciting--- and build it. The kind of experience and the learning you'll get from actually
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by juanre 13y ago
Bash, running in your terminal, understands both the Emacs and the Vi commands. By default is Emacs, so you can C-a (control-a) for beginning of line, C-p to go back in command line history, or C-r to search it. I prefer the Vi mode, thoug
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Addiction by design(timharford.com)
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The impact of marriage in the wealth of male vs female economists(washingtonpost.com)
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by juanre 13y ago
Those of you wanting to learn (or teach) these tools might find useful what I wrote to help my kids learn (sorry for the self-promotion, but I think it's relevant to the topic at hand). I tried to make it learn-by-doing and, most impo
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by juanre 13y ago
Write about it. Make it so your articles explain useful stuff for people not necessarily interested in your niche: what general learning can you extract from your experience so far? What did you try? What did and didn't work? This
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A New Way to Make Rational Resolutions(online.wsj.com)
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The rise of robots and the future of jobs(timharford.com)
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Tie yourself to the mast: Ariely on New Year's resolutions(danariely.com)
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The way of the editor: a gentle introduction to vi and emacs(juanreyero.com)
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A robot walks into a bar: robotic comedians(newyorker.com)
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The dirty secrets of clean cars(economist.com)
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A gentle introduction to the basic Unix tools(juanreyero.com)
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The sky over Victor V. Prison on Feb 11 1990 as Nelson Mandela was relased(greaterskies.com)
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Let’s help the Philippines — but not like we helped Haiti(owen.org)
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by juanre 13y ago
Thank you, and great point. Another option would be to teach them how to install linux on their machines, or go all the way to the Pi. In this way I believe it would be accessible to many more people.
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Teaching web development: the way of the terminal(juanreyero.com)
2 points by juanre 13y ago|2 comments

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