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by thenomad 12y ago
Having done both, repeatedly: use Wordpress or another blogging platform (I hear good things about Jekyll but haven't used it). The feature set issue looks small, but becomes bigger the more time you spend on the single piece of blogg
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VirtualDub - video manipulation software that does some things better than 99% of its competitors (including direct-stream processing, which for some reason most commercial editing suites don't). Not a replacement for Avid / FCX &
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Check out ShareaSale, Commission Junction and potentially Clickbank to get started.
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Plus, much smaller, more nimble companies, and a very very competitive market space.
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If you haven't considered affiliate programs, that would be a good direction to go. You'll have to do more testing but once optimised you'll get a higher ROI than you would from most non-adsense ad companies.
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Very cool! I particularly love your attitude to piracy. Do you have any data suggesting that's resulting in positive effects for Pinegrow? It's good to do either way, but data there would be particularly interesting. I've bee
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I wonder if Patreon.com should add a "science" section?
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Searing steak: yep, it's a myth. The reason you sear steak is to cause what are known as the "Mailliard reactions", a complex waterfall series of reactions that happen when you expose meat proteins to temperatures over 140C.
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I'd completely agree. In fact, I'd say a big part of learning to cook is learning what to cook, what not to cook, and why.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, I think. I know that I personally became a much better cook - and specifically, since you mention it, much better at cooking steak - after learning the science behind it. I do agree that the
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There are lots of intellectual / scientific ways to look at cooking which can really help. For example, understanding the science of cooking meat lets you cook safely, precisely, and to a very high standard. If you understand how flavo
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Heh, I'm well aware of NathanM - his initial work on Sous-Vide on eGullet is what got me started with it. Modernist Cuisine is pretty amazing, but not quite the same sort of thing I was thinking about: it isn't exactly newbie-acce
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Very true - there are lots of excellent cooking resources out there already. I'm a fan of Delia Smith's stuff, personally. "Hackers" / startup guys / whatever you want to call them tend to have similar patterns
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Today's lunch will be pan-fried lamb leg steaks with roasted tomatoes and sweet potatoes. It is a little time-consuming, but not too bad - maybe 15-20 min of downtime. My girlfriend and I both work from home and eat Paleo, so ready opt
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There's one takeaway - no pun intended - that leaps out from this. Learn. To. Cook. I run a small, scrappy company that's been in startup mode multiple times over the last 20 years. Being a good cook might well be the most valuabl
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What are the costs associated with that?
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Sex and violence are a way to stand out, and they can be used very effectively for that. Clive Barker springs to mind as someone who crafts genuinely original, brilliantly written stories from those elements, for example. But I agree, the
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Stephen Donaldson also would be in with a good shot as the "anti-Tolkien" - the first Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are in many ways a mirror opposition to Tolkien's work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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by thenomad 12y ago
I've just read "Trust Me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holliday - a very similar book by the sounds of it, and also one I'd heartily recommend if you want to understand what you're seeing any time you look at Twitter, Fa
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What are the specific things that you want to do that Mailgun won't let you do? I'm guessing that you need a membership system and payment setup, for example?
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Have you done research on this? If not, I'd recommend it - you will probably find it encouraging. A surprising amount of the people at the top of their fields - particularly creative fields - actually don't do the 24/7 thing.
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I've used Photoshop as a presentation tool recently - it's surprisingly good.
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Aeropress: were you using the brew method suggested in the Aeropress manual? If so, yeah, that one sucks - no wonder you didn't get on with it! If you fancy giving it another go and haven't tried it already, the general approach u
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If you haven't read this book, do. Absolutely and without question life-changing. Also contains the best description and explanation of the scientific method I've ever read - so good that I put the book on the curriculum of a cour
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Have you read "It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"? Even if it is Carpal Tunnel in your case, "It's Not..." is a superb book on RSIs and RSI-like conditions: well worth picking up.
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You'll need a fair few sessions, unfortunately. It's not a quick process. They're trained to know what to ask, how to be useful to you, and so on - at least, the good ones are! Note: make sure you're going to a therapis
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Interesting. I've run a somewhat successful aggregation website in the past, and found that I hit significant scaling problems. Can you provide a few more examples of aggregation / filtering services that have achieved reasonably
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Extension algorithms are absolutely amazing - and incredibly useful if you're a practical working visual artist. I've personally found Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill to be so useful on films and comics that it now gets its ow
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Yes, I do. I've not found meditation to be an absolute silver bullet for RSI in the same way that I found appropriate stretches, trigger point therapy, and Pilates to be. However, it's definitely extremely useful, and if your RSI
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Quite. If coffee roasteries could develop a decaffination process that would preserve the taste of the individual beans 100% (or even 90%), I'd drink decaf exclusively. I don't actually want the bloody stimulant effects. I just wa

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