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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
"Burton appointed his wife to be his literary executor, with absolute control over everything that he left behind. Among her first acts was to burn the manuscript of a translation of an Arabic work called ‘The Scented Garden,’ which, w
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Why Don't I Use Leanpub?(blog.leanpub.com)
5 points by peterarmstrong 12y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
At Ruboss, we rewrote Dashcube ( https://dashcube.com/ ) in React, after having performance issues with another JS framework. The rewrite took 4 months, and was totally worth it. We're extremely happy with React...
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Leanpub, 1206 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329397 (We didn't get any comments or many points, but it's nice to see that afterward we've had a number of Leanpub books do better...)
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
After 16 hours of no food, eating breakfast is usually an easier sell. But if it's not, force it down anyway.
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
I've found the simpler solution that works for me is to fast for 16 hours, including the entire flight, and eat breakfast on the plane an hour before landing. Also, I sleep on the plane, starting right after takeoff, with a sleeping p
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Use Amazon Prime to ship you anti-venom in 2 days.
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Mandatory unsubscribe is totally fine, obviously. But CASL includes making confirmation, welcome and update emails opt-in, or else risking an up to $10 million dollar fine. Yes, really. Even if you're not a Canadian business, this will
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
If you think this is bad, just wait until July 1 and CASL gets introduced. As a Canadian I'd like to apologize for this: http://www.marketingprofs.com/chirp/2014/25293/how-canadas-a... http:/&#x2F
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
It's a meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
We've been debating whether to differentiate between "online" and "mobile". The obvious answer is to do so, but it might be that with phones being better etc some people prefer to just use the mobile app for much of
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Thanks! In terms of convincing your team, we need to build importers to import popular tools (e.g. Trello, Pivotal, Slack, Asana). What do you use? In terms of security and IP: the security model is at the cube level. Anyone you add to a cu
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
By the way, I buried the lede: our point is that Trello (tasks, kanban) and Slack (chat) need to be first class citizens in the same app. Having two separate apps for this is the mistake of the industry -- e.g. Basecamp and Campfire bein
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Right now chats are either private messages or else they are on a task. We probably need to generalize this though, since not everything is a task. Our mobile apps are interesting. We are experimenting with both the iOS and Android apps a
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
This is fine; thanks. Sorry about that...
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
The UI is intended to be something that is pleasant to look at for hours, since ideally we want it to be left open all day on a second monitor. So we didn't make it bright and shiny...
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
They're more active than typical investors, but it does sound weird. Fixing.
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
I was actually quoting a journalist (David Coleman, CMSWire) whose article was quoted at the top of the Dashcube homepage. I have no idea why a voting ring detection got triggered, but it's probably because everyone who has been worki
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Specific notes: - We have native mobile apps on iOS and Android. The links to both app stores are on the homepage. The apps are a bit rough around the edges, but we're working really hard on them. - Integrat
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Dashcube – Communicate In Context(dashcube.com)
31 points by peterarmstrong 12y ago|22 comments
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
And yet... Bose QC15 are simple, light, comfortable and sound fine. The real point, however, is that they are amazing at tuning out the outside world, and thus are fantastic for coding. Their lack of audiophile cred means absolutely nothing
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
Cool. Let me know how it goes!
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by peterarmstrong 12y ago
If you're planning at least 3 parts, have you considered turning this tutorial into a Leanpub book? It's the perfect start to one... (Disclosure: I'm a Leanpub cofounder)
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by peterarmstrong 13y ago
"New publishing model"? You could have just used a photocopier.
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Programming for Kids ebook is free today (leanpub.com)
2 points by peterarmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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Programming for Kids (ebook)(leanpub.com)
1 points by peterarmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by peterarmstrong 13y ago
What I meant was that we can do a compensating transaction (say a PayPal payment etc), but that it would not be a "refund" in terms of being a refund onto their credit card.
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by peterarmstrong 13y ago
I talk about this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozO0kOnqmyA#t=935 ... The serial publishing bit starts at 14:03
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by peterarmstrong 13y ago
Authors categorize their books themselves. Using the wrong category is presumably a mistake in autocomplete...
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by peterarmstrong 13y ago
Authors do this themselves on Leanpub. But the thing is, readers of the in-progress book actually end up providing a lot of that in many cases, by providing feedback to the author via email, Disqus or Twitter. (Development and technical e

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