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Cheaper than free: paying for music after searching for a free download(blog.bandcamp.com)
139 points by spatten 15y ago|24 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
When you say "If you're terminal is awesome, you can ⌘-click on the links to open them in a browser.", what kind of awesome do I need? I'm running plain old terminal on OS X. (oh, and not to be picky, but that should be "your", not "you're"
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How much should an ebook cost?(thedominoproject.com)
3 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
You're right, I completely forgot the digital delivery fee. It's, if I remember correctly, $0.15 per megabyte, rather than a flat $0.35. So this can be significant for books with lots of images.
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by spatten 15y ago
If a publisher sells a book in a store, they typically split the revenue 50/50 with the store. So, that $20 book gets the publisher $10 in revenue. Then, they had to print the book and ship it. Plus, they don't get paid for the books that t
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by spatten 15y ago
Unless I'm talking about Erlang, my answer is almost going to be "I really miss Erlang's pattern matching". (I know it's not exclusive to Erlang, but that's where I learned it). My dream language right now would be something with the expres
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Getting up and running with Amber.js(scottpatten.ca)
1 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
"If you played with SproutCore and liked the concepts but felt like it was too heavy, give Amber a try. And if you’re a Backbone fan, I think you’ll love how little code you need to write with Amber." Sold! You read my mind there, Yehuda. I
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by spatten 15y ago
But you also have to ask the following question: Would it have been more expensive to write it in Javascript in 2007 (with the same or close-to-the-same user experience) than to write it in Flex in 2007 and rewrite it in Javascript now. My
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Steve Kamb: 11 fitness lessons learned(nerdfitness.com)
1 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
One of the things I'm looking forward to is, in a few years, handing my worn copy of the Harper Hall series to my daughter and introducing her to the world of Pern. I think I got my copy when the Science Fiction book club sent it to me beca
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by spatten 15y ago
Is there an non-iTunes equivalent to iTunes' Genius? Most of my music listening tends to be of the "I feel like listening to song X and a bunch more like it" and Genius is perfect for that. If I could get that in a console app, I'd switch i
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by spatten 15y ago
If you want to learn how to do this yourself, let Steve know here: http://leanpub.com/learnvimscriptthehardway
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Continuous deployment with Jenkins and Pennyworth(junglist.gen.nz)
2 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
The one that said something about "type the red moving characters" never worked for me. The spinner just sat there for > 30 seconds before I gave up. (Chrome on OS X with Flash installed, if that makes a difference)
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by spatten 15y ago
Here's what we use at http://leanpub.com * Servers: AWS * Code Hosting: GitHub * Mail Sending: Postmark ( http://postmarkapp.com ) * Monitoring: Scout ( http://scoutapp.com/ ) * Sharing files with our authors: Dropbox * Error notification
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The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do(pragprog.com)
7 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
A lot of Canadian companies are unable to use S3 (or EC2) due to the Patriot Act. Sure, they can get around this by using European buckets, but that kind of sucks for latency. I can easily imagine setting up a company using this software wi
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by spatten 15y ago
A Masters Degree, in my opinion, is something you take to learn . It's about delving deeply into an area you want to learn more about. If you're in the program purely to pick up skills that you need in an average programming job, then you'
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by spatten 15y ago
Just a suggestion for the website: the home page should probably be a nice landing page explaining what the project is about, rather than your blog. Link to your blog for sure, but the home page should explain quickly what the project is an
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by spatten 15y ago
You should self-publish it and see what happens. If you already have a PDF that looks good, Lulu is a good choice ( http://lulu.com ). If not, check out my startup, Leanpub: http://leanpub.com .
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How Google Could Have Simplified Its UI Without Screwing Power Users(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by spatten 15y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 15y ago
Hmm. Must be regional differences. I'm in Canada.
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by spatten 15y ago
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004W2UBYW Weird pricing here. iBooks: $16.99 Amazon, Hardcover: $17.88 Amazon, Kindle: $20.72 I thought Amazon had rules that you weren't allowed to sell a book on Amazon for a higher price than it's avai
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by spatten 15y ago
Back when this article was written, you were using these methods about every 10 lines of code or so. If they weren't embedded in your memory, you were probably lying about how much Javascript you had written or were really bad at it.
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by spatten 15y ago
Fun! I immediately nerd-sniped myself and started playing with factorials. Turns out it only goes up to 170!. 170! gives you a number (170 ! = 7.25741562 × 10306). 171! searches for 171 in documents. Still fun, and pretty darn fast, too.
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by spatten 15y ago
I've done it with a microwave and some marshmallows (I taught this lab to some first year college students long ago when I spent a term as a college physics instructor). It's similar to tzs' method below, in that you have to know the freque
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by spatten 15y ago
Huh. I had it in my head that the Google Cloud storage was significantly cheaper than S3. Looking at the pricing here, it's pretty much the same. Was there an announcement for a similar Google product recently, or am I just a victim of wish
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by spatten 15y ago
Cool, thanks for those links. I'm going to give them a read. After a quick read of a few articles.... Hmmm. This is good stuff. I want to sit down with this and read it on my Kindle. Maybe I should ping him and see if he wants to turn this
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by spatten 15y ago
Totally agreed. I also have 'option+right arrow' mapped to move cursor one word forward (use the same instructions as above, substituting 'f' for 'b').

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