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Public-inbox – an "archives first" approach to mailing lists(public-inbox.org)
2 points by jstorimer 12y ago|0 comments
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Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails(petekeen.net)
31 points by jstorimer 13y ago|2 comments
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by jstorimer 13y ago
If you're willing to spend $300, I've done all my covers through 99designs.com and been very happy.
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The Self-Pipe Trick Explained(rubysource.com)
4 points by jstorimer 13y ago|0 comments
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Nobody understands MRI's GIL implementation(jstorimer.com)
5 points by jstorimer 13y ago|0 comments
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Nobody understands the GIL(jstorimer.com)
3 points by jstorimer 13y ago|0 comments
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Self publishing AND traditional publishing? You don't have to choose.(jstorimer.com)
2 points by jstorimer 13y ago|1 comments
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Pairing Is Not Code Review(jstorimer.com)
1 points by jstorimer 13y ago|0 comments
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Is lock-free logging safe?(jstorimer.com)
6 points by jstorimer 13y ago|1 comments
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Rubinius 2.0 and multi-threaded Ruby concurrency with Brian Shirai(jstorimer.com)
2 points by jstorimer 13y ago|0 comments
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The Hungry Programmer(jstorimer.com)
1 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Hi. OP here. Thanks for the comments about atomicity vs. thread-safety. Absolutely on point. The article started out demonstrating what happened with concurrent Array mutation, but then I put in that += operation and didn't address it. Sorr
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Correct. Later on I say: There are some very specific caveats that MRI makes for concurrent IO. If you have one thread that's waiting on IO (ie. waiting for a response from the DB or a web request), MRI will allow another thread to run
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by jstorimer 14y ago
AFAIK there is no spec. MRI is the reference implementation, but many things are experimental or intentionally unspecified. Given that MRI ships with a GIL, the only core classes that are intentionally aware of multi-threading concerns are
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Ruby core classes aren't thread-safe(us2.campaign-archive1.com)
1 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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Naivety Helped Me Learn Rails(jstorimer.com)
35 points by jstorimer 14y ago|3 comments
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Before Pat announced he was writing an ebook, I was following the articles he wrote on his blog. He has a real knack for making difficult concepts easy to understand using diagrams and simple language. And on top of that, he asks interestin
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Show HN: Working With TCP Sockets book(workingwithtcpsockets.com)
32 points by jstorimer 14y ago|9 comments
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Interview with M.D. McIlroy(princeton.edu)
7 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstorimer 14y ago
It's linked near the bottom of that page. https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A301WJ6X...
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by jstorimer 14y ago
I would. There really wasn't much 'bother' to speak of once I understood how it worked. And even though it wasn't as fruitful as other efforts, many small returns add up quickly.
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Lessons Learned Getting Other People to Sell My Ebook(jstorimer.com)
24 points by jstorimer 14y ago|7 comments
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Copywriting for Geeks - Learn to sell your stuff with words(copywritingforgeeks.com)
1 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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Don’t Repeat My Product Launch Mistakes(nathanbarry.com)
5 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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TED is the Anti-News(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jstorimer 14y ago|1 comments
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Does math love emergence?(myagileeducation.com)
1 points by jstorimer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstorimer 14y ago
I didn't have a formula in mind with the fake sales page, but my conversion rate was 3-4%. Not bad. In my mind it wasn't scientific. If I could put a sales page for a product that doesn't exist and even one person attempts to give me money,
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by jstorimer 14y ago
It's always easier to target an audience that you are familiar with and are a part of. Since I would have bought this book myself if someone else had wrote it I knew what people would want to know and how to reach them. If I were targeting
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by jstorimer 14y ago
There are a million ways to do it :) I've seen success from releasing the content for free with a paid version for ereaders, or doing it like I did and just offering the paid version.
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by jstorimer 14y ago
Totally agree about the 10-90 split. I like to think it's more like 25-75 but you drove the point home ;)

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