peterarmstrong

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by peterarmstrong 1y ago
"That single gram of silica gel could have an internal surface area of eight hundred square meters—the size of almost two basketball courts." This reads like something from The Three Body Problem :)
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by peterarmstrong 1y ago
What, hackathons require admission applications these days? Holy crap I'm getting old...
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Write an in-progress book about some niche = lead magnet for this type of work :) (disclosure: founder of Leanpub)
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Yeah, I was going to write the same thing.
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
When you realize it was supposed to be a graphic novel, that makes the over-the-top scenes make so much more sense. It's a comic book without the comics. (I also think it's great, btw.)
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Also, Asakusa Kid (biopic of him) is a really good movie, and Hana-bi is a great movie as well.
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
phalates
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
No. You discuss it with your manager, and you do it at the appropriate time. Having both created, refactored and deleted lots of technical debt over the past 25 years, trust me: you just don't get to go rogue because "you're
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Maybe the young men measured have low enough testosterone ranges that the high/low cycles have less effect, but the more likely explanation is that the methodology of this study is pretty laughable...
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
I can recognize my wife and son perfectly fine, I just can't make pictures of them in my mind. Longer version: https://leanpub.com/aphantasia/read
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Thank you from Leanpub!
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
What this leads to is the joke of guidelines like in Victoria, Canada, where the city basically is trying to mandate that buildings look "interesting", where interesting is defined as "the developer built it out of Jenga bloc
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Hey, in Canada the newest model will be! Next year we'll have, what, four F-35s? We'd almost be better off making a bunch of that bronze armour and the cool hats...
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by peterarmstrong 2y ago
Friendly note: losing, not loosing :)
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
The cycle also goes hand-in-hand with languages and frameworks. I use VSCode for Ruby on Rails editing, but I don't need to. With TypeScript, however, it's a huge win -- just as IDEA or Eclipse were essential for Java, back in the
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
We treat all author support issues to hello@leanpub.com as confidential, of course. For author support issues which are fine to discuss in public, you can see our author forum at https://community.leanpub.com/c/authors
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
Agreed! We don't do anything to help with that part of the process: you need to use that page either way :)
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
Regardless of what type of book your wife is writing, if she uses Leanpub she needs to do the upload to KDP herself: Leanpub doesn't currently do anything here. There are other companies like BookBaby which do the "publish to Amaz
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
Thanks :) Ironically, I've been talking about the relationship between lean publishing and serial fiction for a long time (for example, this video from a conference talk I did in 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o
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by peterarmstrong 5y ago
One thing to consider is royalty rate. If you sell 5000 copies for $20 and earn a dollar per copy, you've earned $5,000. (This math is based on 10% royalties on the publisher's portion, which is about half of retail. And no, ficti
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by peterarmstrong 6y ago
Sounds good re. #2. Re, #1, we don't offer anything in terms of an interactive environment at the moment, and we probably won't do so for a long time. That seems like a full startup in itself. Instead, we are differentiating by fo
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by peterarmstrong 6y ago
Hi Sundeep, [Leanpub co-founder here.] Thanks for the kind words about Leanpub, and for choosing Leanpub as one of your publishing platforms! We're fond of our pricing sliders and of our newsletters as well :) Also, thanks for the very
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by peterarmstrong 7y ago
At Leanpub, authors keep 80% of the title's price. We've paid over $7.5M in royalties to authors, and we're alive and well :) Write in Markdown, click a button, get a book (PDF, EPUB, MOBI). Click a different button and your
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by peterarmstrong 7y ago
Obligatory link, via pmarca archive: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
Speaking of OSS: essentially the whole reason that the term "Open Source Software" exists is because the Free Software Foundation often comes across like this. "Free Software" is the brand for people who think that modes
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Leanpub Concierge Service(leanpub.com)
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
ANA theme music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4fm_kO1us
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
Yep, this is going to be Altered Carbon or Ghost In The Shell type of crap. Whatever you Google for will follow you everywhere , and nag you until you buy it...
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
Yes, but individual perfect micro of 50 blink stalkers is beyond the capability of any pro, whereas I can spam-create Zerg units by holding down a key and have higher APM for a split-second, and I'm just a garbage diamond player.
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by peterarmstrong 8y ago
Thanks! :)

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