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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
(Leanpub co-founder here.) I like to think that some of our books are between 30% and 110% of what you'd expect from an O'Reilly book. They don't have things like indexes, but the advantage is that authors can write in a dial
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
Sorry about this! We've fixed the mobile read page now, so pages like https://leanpub.com/readevalprintlove004/read will work a lot better on mobile. That was a pretty terrible oversight on our part; thanks for po
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
As a fan (not shareholder, unfortunately) of Tesla, this is great news. When I think of Elon Musk I sometimes think of the movie version of Patton. Hopefully this gets him to settle down on a bit of the drama, and focus on making Tesla succ
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
I grew up in Saskatchewan, which is the most farmer-focused province in Canada, and is probably more farmer-focused than almost all US states. Saskatchewan has never had DST.
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Leanpub Goes Freemium(leanpub.com)
1 points by peterarmstrong 8y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
This is a good point in general and about the PC in particular, but it is totally wrong about Netscape. The complement of a web browser isn't the web servers, it's the OS--and vice versa. So, Netscape tries to commoditize the OS,
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A New Course for Leanpub(leanpub.com)
1 points by peterarmstrong 8y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
Absolutely! (I've observed this in myself and many others. This is probably the biggest advantage a startup has, btw.)
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
As a modest (probably 3x, since I work hard) programmer-turned-founder who has worked with a handful of 10x programmers over the past couple decades, as well as a huge number of 3x programmers, 1x programmers, and 0.1x (i.e. net-negative) p
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
puts "#{rand(19)}, #{rand(19)}" (I'm not much better :)
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Leanpub and Pubcoin(leanpub.com)
2 points by peterarmstrong 9y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
Because this is more important than something you delegate. It's the biggest change to the company since the company was created. It's not like Twitter does 10 products, and it's like "bring Phil up to talk about this on
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
This type of announcement needs to come from the CEO, not a product manager.
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
I'm talking about Series 2. Series 3 isn't available yet. But Series 3 is supposedly same size as Series 2, except the thing that sticks out of the back is "2 sheets of paper thicker", to use Apple's new contributio
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
I've found mine is accurate as long as it is snug. But if it's not snug, it can be way off. Also, when I first tried it I had wrist pain, and learned that I actually was "wearing it wrong". Moving it further up my arm fi
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
No Rogers yet, so this may get people switching to Bell (ugh) or Telus...
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
masse :)
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
One easy way to get started on this which isn't an extended fast is to do something like the Warrior Diet. What I do is skip breakfast and lunch virtually every day, except for fresh vegetable juice I make myself, and all the coffee an
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
I wrote a book (free minimum price) to teach my son programming, starting in Terminal, and using Ruby. https://leanpub.com/programmingforkids It's currently Mac-only, because of the `say` command, and so that I could w
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
This is very disappointing. When discussing the space, I liked to point at O'Reilly, Manning and the Prags as examples of tech publishers that did a good job directly selling ebooks. I've bought many books from all three of them.
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
My son used to love their Hawaiian bagels, which we would stock up on when we lived in Maple Ridge and went down to the US for a day trip occasionally. Trader Joe's also has wine which is good for the price, but that doesn't work
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
We don't produce print books. Instead, we generate a print-ready PDF or InDesign. With the print-ready PDF, you can use it on unchanged places like Lulu or CreateSpace. (With the print-ready PDF, we alternate margins (wider in middle)
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
[Leanpub co-founder here.] We use Markdown for authoring (one of two dialects: either Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua). We automatically produce PDF, EPUB, MOBI (what you were saying, essentially), but we also produce InDesign export.
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
Or, better, join / create a distributed team. Last August, the day before a 3-week family vacation to Japan, we closed Leanpub's office and became a distributed team. It was a great decision; we are happier this way, even though m
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by peterarmstrong 9y ago
Pro-tip: Figure out a way to work from home some days. You'd save 2-3 hours. Give one to your company and one to yourself.
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The Leanpub Visual Editor(leanpub.com)
3 points by peterarmstrong 9y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
As a Canadian, Canada should also look at legalizing non-hockey metaphors. Stickhandling as a way of describing legislation? Really?
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
The best thing about this is that it's an admission that some aspects of a document are better when authored as plain text. Now, I'm of the opinion that this is actually true of the entire document, especially when it's a b
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
In Victoria, Canada, Thrifty Foods does this really well, and we don't exactly have high density. The only constraint is a $50 minimum order.
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
I wrote Flexible Rails back in 2007 that did this: https://www.manning.com/books/flexible-rails I wouldn't read the book now though, since Flex, but the approach worked well.

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