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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Except that's not true: http://fortune.com/2016/12/11/bill-gates-john-doerr-venture-...
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Blogger and Twitter.
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Thanks! It's hard to believe that Flexible Rails, and my talk about it at a RailsConf BOF, was almost a decade ago! Flex was controversial then, but it is beyond unsexy now :) (Full backstory here: https://leanpub.com/l
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
[Leanpub cofounder here] You can publish your Leanpub books on Amazon KDP as well. We encourage our authors to do so once their books are complete. We think we're the best way in the world to write a technical book, and the best place
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
I had horrible wrist pain working long hours in Silicon Valley, and switched to Dvorak. No major issues since, over a decade later. It's just better.
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Dear America, This all sounds complicated and insecure. Why can you not just do paper voting with simple ballots, like in Canada? Yes, you have 10x the people, but just get 10x the human counters and scrutineers. Counting is parallelizable.
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Hopefully one day textbook prices can return to a sane level, say between $30 and $80. Today's textbook racket (I don't want to call it a market) is obscene.
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
By the way, another way to get financial support for an open source project is to sell a short tutorial book. For example, the creator of Laravel did this on Leanpub (disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Leanpub) and did pretty well: https
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
It completely bypasses our system: we earn $0 from Lulu sales. (It was added by Dr. Peng. Leanpub authors own the copyright to their work, and can sell it wherever they want.) That said, having used Lulu myself in the past (back in 2006), L
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Leanpub co-founder here. We're really happy with our minimum price + suggested price strategy, and have no plans to change it. When coupled with our sliders which clearly show the (very high, 90% minus 50 cents) royalties that are earn
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
For the young kids here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
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by peterarmstrong 10y ago
Friendly advice: make sure that, if the time comes, you get a speech therapist sooner rather than later if the speech is delayed too much and the fact of not being able to communicate causes him distress. Early intervention helps so much, s
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Writing Leanpub Books in Word(leanpub.com)
2 points by peterarmstrong 11y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
I've worked remotely for Silicon Valley companies from Victoria, Canada, and it's great, even though the startup scene is just in its infancy. Same time zone, housing isn't insane like the valley or like Vancouver, beautiful
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
Fair point!
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
You're correct that we're more expensive per transaction than Gumroad, which is an excellent service. Now, for some books, the amount earned above the minimum price is more than enough to make up the difference: our price sliders
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
I should have been more precise: yes, they are introductory textbooks which accompany courses. I was defining academic as "it's a textbook of any level" not "it's graduate level only". Leanpub has also been use
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
The alternative is absolutely not "no book". Academic books can do extremely well as ebooks. I'm cofounder of Leanpub, and some of our bestselling books ( https://leanpub.com/bookstore/earnings_in_la
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
We have this. They're called sports teams.
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
We like to think of what we're doing as Lean Publishing (self-published in-progress ebooks), not vanity publishing. We only earn money if the author does, unlike most of the scum that prey on authors who wish to self-publish and spend
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
Great! Brian Marick's book on Functional Programming ( https://leanpub.com/fp-oo ) has done really well; looking forward to seeing more of them!
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
We want to improve our support for fiction a lot in the months ahead. We're mostly computer programming books right now because Leanpub used to be so hard to use you needed to be a programmer to figure it out :) Most programmers alread
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
That's a very good point. Adding to backlog :)
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
Congrats on your book! As a cofounder of Leanpub, I'm really happy that you enjoyed using our platform :) And yes, you can sell your Leanpub books wherever you want -- at Leanpub, authors own their work. Thanks for the suggestion rega
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by peterarmstrong 11y ago
I don't think design is losing its seat at the table: most new apps are nothing but design. But it would be nice if pretentiousness lost its seat at the table.
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A Vision of a Driverless Future(techcrunch.com)
2 points by peterarmstrong 12y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
How about doubleplusunpositivity? In all seriousness, the line between a valuable piece of criticism and gratuitous negativity seems like a fine line, and one of the things I like about HN is that there is usually intelligent criticism in t
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
We integrated Taxamo ( http://www.taxamo.com/ ) into Leanpub, and their posted fees ( http://www.taxamo.com/pricing/ ) start at 20 Euro cents for every EU transaction. Non-EU transactions are free. In ter
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
If you're an author, you can use Leanpub ( https://leanpub.com/ ). We added #VATMOSS support, so you don't have to. We did this since we looked at the situation and decided it was the correct thing to do for our au
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Heh, I remember coding a vertical FlowLayout in 1999 (before that was included) out of fear and loathing of GridBagLayout...

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