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by gregjwild 8y ago
They haven't already? YouTube is already a key intellectual touchstone for many people already. Whether or not they're party members, they're already influencing many people's views. I personally worry about it given the
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Get Programming with Haskell – without drowning in jargon and FP theory(livebook.manning.com)
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by gregjwild 8y ago
I think you're missing the point: 4:30am may be the right time for some, but that may be absolutely the wrong time for most. And it's not to do with finding a distraction free window. It's down to - as the article highlights
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by gregjwild 8y ago
In general we're pretty happy with Trint for American & British accents for our stuff (though not to say we won't take a look at what you've got :)). They usually require a bit of tweaking, but it's pretty good. The
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by gregjwild 8y ago
More and more this just feels like the modern crisis of capitalism. The declining rate of profit is so extreme that we have to institute a corporate marketing panopticon designed to sell you shit you don't need, to the extent we'r
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by gregjwild 8y ago
It's not necessarily unique, however. While European civilisation is more fragmented by nationalism, by comparison there's clear lineage through religion, law, culture, etc. Much like China's lineage was really kick-started b
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by gregjwild 8y ago
I'm on about £28k per annum as a remote contractor -- I'd second this advice.
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by gregjwild 8y ago
Glad to hear it! :) It's in-house, yes. Interestingly, the original code base was designed to tie book text to audio-book readings, which we use in our liveBook platform. There's various third-party libraries in play for some of i
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by gregjwild 8y ago
Glad to hear it! > - I wish the transcript text size could be increased without affecting the rest of the UI (which seems fine). Maybe it can and I missed it, or I need to be logged in? Totally agreed we need this. I've passed this
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by gregjwild 8y ago
We do some of this - inline code samples, some of which can be executed, embedded headings, additional reference material, etc. https://livevideo.manning.com/module/3_2_2/es6-in-motion/arr...
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by gregjwild 8y ago
We (Manning Publications) added transcripts as a pretty central feature of our video platform. I'd be pretty interested to hear what you thought. A lot of our customers asked for this when we were researching what they wanted, so I&#x2
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by gregjwild 8y ago
Agreed. Another example of where folks in knowledge economy jobs need should join/found unions.
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by gregjwild 8y ago
I'm not familiar with Kling's model, but that seems like a terribly reductionist model. It scarcely sums up the range of ontological perspectives in America right now, let alone anywhere else in the world, and especially let alone
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Brain Rules by John Medina and Make it Stick by Peter Brown are pretty good, and not too tough going. In terms of the mechanics of memory, they're pretty good particularly.
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by gregjwild 9y ago
For me, this is why it's such a big deal: I don't think it has to be porn to be used against you. It just needs to be some minor character flaw that breaks with your public image. And I guess more troubling still, this kind of stu
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Glad to hear you like the audio-book stuff! We've admittedly not got it for all books, though have for our more recent & popular books. If feedback/sales are good, we'll be likely adding it to more.
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Show HN: liveBook – Manning Publications' new book platform(livebook.manning.com)
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Here at Manning (we're publishing Francois Book) have something in our early access program on this now - https://www.manning.com/books/the-art-of-data-usability
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Always good to hear positive feedback :) Thanks! Any particular books you've enjoyed recently?
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Not at all :) I was responding to the criticism of O'Reilly reducing to just two choices - Safari or Amazon. We're committed to DRM free options wherever possible. We're coming up with some new stuff, but DRM free pdfs and ep
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by gregjwild 9y ago
If someone can't pirate "X in a Nutshell", they'll pirate "Learning X". Either way, nobody is getting their money. No point losing customers over it.
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by gregjwild 9y ago
We also allow eBook customers to upgrade to a print book for $12 plus shipping - https://www.manning.com/ebooks
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Data has value, but not as much value as repeat customer loyalty.
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Here at Manning we plan to keep selling beautifully typeset .PDFs & other formats for many years to come :)
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by gregjwild 9y ago
We (Manning) have no intention of ceasing DRM free book distribution. If anything, we're in the process of diversifying ways you can consume our content :)
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by gregjwild 9y ago
And many more to come! We're always on the hunt for new tech to teach in our books (and now videos) No Starch are great too though. I own a few myself :)
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by gregjwild 9y ago
We (Manning) are in the process of diversifying our options :)
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by gregjwild 9y ago
Glad to hear you've enjoyed our stuff. We really do try to do a good job with it! :)
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by gregjwild 10y ago
heh. The UK government has a lot of infra based on Azure. The MOD and NHS for starters. Smooth. Very smooth. Another indicator that the rabid, vulgar libertarians in the Brexiteer ranks are more than happy to use Brexit to strain public ser
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by gregjwild 10y ago
Yes. I had the same situation when starting a job a few years back... the managers just seemed confused that I'd bothered to take the time to understand what I'd meant more than anything. Guess they were just used to hiring people

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