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by spatten 14y ago
From here: http://pal-v.com/the-pal-v-one/specifications/ Flight specs: Range 350 - 500 km Max speed: 180 km/h Fuel economy: 36 l/h This is 20 l/100 km at max speed (11.76 MPG), so not amazing but not much worse than an SUV (my car, which
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Nokia CEO's Burning Platform memo(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by spatten 14y ago|1 comments
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Two new steam engine designs(whatsup-di.blogspot.ca)
4 points by spatten 14y ago|2 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant for sellers, not buyers.
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by spatten 14y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that Google and Authorize.net are both US only and PayPal is international. Amazon Checkout is also US only. I'd love to add another payment processor (Stripe, please!) without going through the
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The Rails Dilemma(blog.obiefernandez.com)
6 points by spatten 14y ago|2 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
That's pretty fun! One thing I'd like to see is holding down Ctrl (or something) allowing resizing while doing something like snap-to-grid. I.e. avoid rotation and allow you to change the aspect ratio. I think this would be useful for makin
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Kindle E-Ink sales have dropped 75% since Kindle Fire introduced(seekingalpha.com)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
A list of places to get DRM free ebooks: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_stores#Dealers_and_Pu...
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by spatten 14y ago
An epub file is just a zip archive containing HTML files and a manifest. You could probably get away with just epub and something to unzip them with. I'm assuming that HTML renderers will be around for a while, though. If you're feeling par
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by spatten 14y ago
Made me wonder how you could prepare for something like this. If you had warning, and a metal box, would throwing all of your electronics in there be good enough to save them? I'm thinking computer, phone, stuff like that. Either way, I'm g
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by spatten 14y ago
This is going to sound more dramatic than it was, but here's one way of summarizing the last five years of my life: I was 35, working at a great job as a physicist. Amazing team (I was usually the dumbest guy in the room), amazing project,
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by spatten 14y ago
One of our goals at Leanpub is to create a world where authors can make a living. This seems like a crazy vision to some, but why should it be? I believe that we will look back at right now as the start of a golden age of writing. We just h
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by spatten 14y ago
See my comment above. You actually need the sound to create vibrations in the stream of water that breaks it up into drops. The coolest thing is that there really are drops here, it's not an optical illusion.
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by spatten 14y ago
Two companies doing the same thing both got bought by the same very large company. The other company kept going. We got shut down. I got to leave and start my own company (Leanpub), and everyone lived happily ever after. It was a great proj
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by spatten 14y ago
I spent a few years of my life staring at this exact effect. I was working on building a big industrial inkjet printer. The physics behind it is cool too, but not new. Lord Rayleigh first described it in 1878. Not exactly a glitch in the Ma
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by spatten 14y ago
We've found that it works quite well for us on Leanpub, and you're right that the learning curve doesn't seem to be too steep for new writers. We need to be a bit better at this, but starting off with saying "# Chapter" makes a new chapter
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by spatten 15y ago
Nice article. At first, I thought it would be more similar to our manifesto on Leanpub: http://leanpub.com/manifesto . I was pleasantly surprised to find a new take on the concept. It's a nice complement. For comparison, the points from th
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by spatten 15y ago
Yes, sorry about that. We've been rather slammed today. The short answer is that we don't support it. We could if we were just using LaTeX => PDF (which we do), but then things would blow up when doing epub and mobi. I'll take this as a
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Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today(leanpub.com)
203 points by spatten 15y ago|82 comments
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Richard Garriot's film, made on the ISS, banned by NASA, may be released(forbes.com)
3 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
Ouch. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
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by spatten 15y ago
As it's hard to find in the article, the book is at http://leanpub.com/uncensored . Here's a list of the contributors so far: Adam Nash, Adam Rifkin, Alexia Tsotsis, Andrew Dubber, Barry Ritholtz, Brad Feld, Bryce Roberts, Caterina
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by spatten 15y ago
Exactly. We don't really want to be in the money loop for this, but we think that this is the only way to get our authors on the iBooks and Kindle stores without them having to sign up for themselves.
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by spatten 15y ago
If you want to do it yourself, it's a somewhat involved process where you get an account with Amazon, provide a US tax id (annoying for those of us out of the US, but we got ours in less than a week) and then upload the mobi file through a
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by spatten 15y ago
No, there is not and we don't plan on adding any when we submit them to Amazon. Here's Peter's/our take on DRM: http://www.peterarmstrong.com/?p=257 (this is slightly out of date, since Peter only talks about PDFs in the post).
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by spatten 15y ago
This is a special case of a preformatted code block. For preformatted code blocks, there has to be an absolute line length -- otherwise the code just flows off the right side of the page, as <pre> blocks only do line-breaks when the
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by spatten 15y ago
We use LaTeX to take care of this in our PDFs. It does a pretty good job. Yes, it won't be 100% as good as if you paid a typesetter to do it, but there is nothing obviously objectionable. For example, one of our books (leanpub.com/battinga
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by spatten 15y ago
The short answer is that they're print ready as-is. Eric Ries printed a Leanpub book of his first year's worth of blog posts (we sold them at the first Startup Lessons Learned conference). They looked pretty good. The slightly longer answer
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by spatten 15y ago
Sounds like a lot of the pain points that Peter Armstrong and I ran into when writing our books, and that we're trying to solve on Leanpub ( http://leanpub.com ). It's free to sign up, you write your book in Markdown and we convert it into

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