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by wtracy 14y ago
Lean Startup is really hard to apply to this kind of business. Even when he had them made 10k at a time, he was only able to eke out 75 cents of profit on each one. If he tried a smaller batch, the production costs would have eaten him aliv
902.
by wtracy 14y ago
In all seriousness, if you've already put in the effort to write a book, it's pretty hard to lose money selling it through a print-on-demand service. (It might be hard to make money, but it's pretty damn hard to lose money.)
903.
by wtracy 14y ago
The Tux Droid, maybe?
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by wtracy 14y ago
I, too, would love to hear on this from Patrick or anyone else. NextDoor.com is using direct mail (I know because I got a postcard from them!) and I'm curious whether or not it's working.
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by wtracy 14y ago
It provides a point-and-click way to add repositories recommended by Canonical (including the paid stuff). If you're at the command line, you have to already know what repositories you want to add.
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by wtracy 14y ago
I would try it on an x86 device first, just to get your feet wet. There's enough ways to trip yourself up with LFS without trying to do it on unusual hardware.
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by wtracy 14y ago
This is the first time I've seen someone suggest split testing the ads that run on their own site. Are there any particular resources that you would recommend for this?
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by wtracy 14y ago
Scientific Linux really isn't a special-purpose distribution. It's just another Red Hat clone like CentOS. (Some people claim that it's actually a superior alternative to CentOS.)
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by wtracy 14y ago
I actually got an advertisement in my mail for Nextdoor. I followed the instructions and plugged in my zipcode on their website. It told me that nobody had organized a group for my neighborhood, and that I could either start one myself, or
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by wtracy 14y ago
It doesn't have the "batteries included" philosophy of languages like Python, where there's already a ready-to-use library for everything. If you want to do anything non-trivial with Lua, you'll probably have to touch some C code.
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by wtracy 14y ago
I expected the article to talk about getting to the surface without getting beat up by the rotor blades. I guess the rotor stops fairly soon after hitting the water, or else the downdraft would push you safely away?
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by wtracy 14y ago
A lot of the Iron Man franchise focuses on Stark as an action hero, with the engineering bit existing solely as a plot device. (In the movies, compare how much screen time he spends designing/building against how much screen time he spends
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by wtracy 14y ago
AFAIK a lot of it is due to issues as simple as Linux having more device drivers than Hurd.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Making the situation even more absurd, none of that money is actually going to the people who do the research. In fact, many scientific journals charge the researchers to publish their work, then turn around and charge anyone who wants to b
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by wtracy 14y ago
There's a world of difference between having no sense of humor, and simply not sharing your sense of humor.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Does TFS beat out ClearCase on the Worst SCM Hierarchy? I'm just curious; I had to use ClearCase a lot at a previous job, and hated it but I've never used TFS.
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by wtracy 14y ago
... I make that mistake all the time. I thought I was the only one.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Shoot, $99/month looks worth it just for the "legal services". :-) I like this.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Maybe they want something shot with the product falling in midair, or a model with a fan blowing his/her hair and clothing? Or it could be some appliance/machine that they want to capture in action (a popcorn popper would be a mundane examp
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by wtracy 14y ago
You are very right. I really meant "the parts of the camera minus the embedded system that drives the whole thing", but that wasn't very succinct. :-P The application I was thinking of was indie movie making, so I would want a decent resol
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by wtracy 14y ago
I've spent a bunch of time thinking about ways to do something like this on a budget. The general idea would be to have a bunch of bare camera sensors directly connected to commodity PCs (maybe with Arduinos interfacing between them) with e
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by wtracy 14y ago
The studio decided not to release the 48fps version in 2D, so no.
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by wtracy 14y ago
The argument in the article seems to be that reduced government spending has depressed the economy, which in turn has killed its income from taxes. So, yes, they reduced spending, but they reduced their income at the same time, so there's n
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by wtracy 14y ago
I've abused it in the past when an application depended on a library that was not installed under the system path. I'd agree with the people who warn against using it when not absolutely necessary.
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by wtracy 14y ago
You would have to do it by screen scraping: Write a program that makes the HTTP request to search for the book in question, then parse the HTML response and determine what the result it.
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by wtracy 14y ago
IDEs like Eclipse have this problem solved for languages like Java, so it's doable. I don't know why I've never seen an equivalent solution for HTML/CSS.
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by wtracy 14y ago
To my knowledge Apple has discontinued Safari for Windows, so I'd say Microsoft is not alone in tying their browser to their OS.
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by wtracy 14y ago
What you're describing really doesn't sound like clinical depression to me. I am glad that you've found something that works for you.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Given the huge number of small businesses that run a box that doubles as a POS and a general-purpose PC (used for email, web surfing, and such) I'm honestly surprised that we don't see this more often. A lot of mom and pop stores simply don
930.
by wtracy 14y ago
It would probably be easy enough to write an extension that lets you pre-populate the form fields that are likely to be present in most check-out systems. That wouldn't automatically submit the form and complete the checkout for you, but I

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