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nelsonweiss
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Comment #5988020
If "galactic tall tales" sounds like something you'd enjoy, Santiago would make the $3 minimum bid worthwhile. It's not what I'd call high literature, but I found it very entertain…
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Comment #5327656
"I completely understand your position, but our rate even for original, reported stories is $100." (from original story) A confusing sentence if ever I've seen one, but are they sa…
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Comment #5248523
The problem being alluded to is that adding an Oxford comma makes it appear as if "a policeman" is a parenthetical phrase describing George. "Through the window she saw George, a p…
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Comment #5248498
An Oxford comma is used in a list. Two items wouldn't have a comma between them.
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Comment #4988526
Politely, I'd advise the opposite. Learn Leiningen- not only because it makes Clojure simple and pleasurable to use, but because it'd be a fantastic tool no matter what language it…
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Comment #4981515
The Art of Learning is less about learning things than it is about becoming very, very good at the things you learn. While the book is highly autobiographical, the author does goes…
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Comment #4927637
Sown, Normally I wouldn't go off topic like this but I didn't see any way to contact you and I just wanted to tell you that: a. Don't give up on finding friends. It may seem rough …
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Comment #4919071
I could never get started with Noir. I know that a lot of people use it, but it was never a good fit for me and I ended up using Compojure + libraries. That said, I have been using…
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Comment #4857430
I don't think Mr. Atwood is suggesting that you bow to what the community wants, but rather that you implement systems to facilitate what they're already doing anyway. That aside, …
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Comment #4834643
Next question- what amount of money constitutes a digital aware subscription price? What range? And how are you determining this price? Second (though related), what is the place o…
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Comment #4833409
Okay- Question for you Cmod: Why do you think that keeping issues at all is a good thing? Issues is one of those throwbacks to physical publishing. When you have to physically prin…
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Comment #4833257
Short sweet tl;dr Online publishing nonsensically adopts many of the practices of offline publishing. It doesn't need to, and could benefit from adopting "Small issue sizes (3-7 ar…
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Comment #4829651
Rewritten to be less complex and avoid unnecessary use of an acronym (not picking on you, just figured your good advice would be more easily read if it was written simpler): Keep i…