Just to be clear.


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you know that thing that firefox on linux does, where if you click on the scrollbar it doesn’t just take you up or down a page like every scrollbar in the past thirty-odd years, but instead moves the scrollbar slider to where you clicked?

this is a gtk+3 thing, because GNOME’s UI team are relentless desktop innovators.

workaround: add this to ~/. ( Read more... )

Went down pub last night with a laptop with a book on it. Much help right there and then. I can see people getting into this.
I have the unlicked lump of words ready to send out to beta readers. If you would like to participate, please email me, dgerard@gmail.com, and I’ll send you a link to the .odt and .docx of the rough drafts.
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The book progresses. Current total: 17,472 words of body text. My target is about 500 usable words a day, so today I have to top 18,000. I expect it to make 20-25,000, at which point it gets edited and will probably end up 15-20,000. Amazing how much work one can put into a Kindle Short.
If you want to watch my ranting progress, it's on Tumblr ( Read more... )

sandifermessages You might try knocking together an ebook short. Aim for $2.99 and 15k words. "Why Bitcoin Is Stupid" or something.

reddragdiva :-D that's actually a REALLY good idea

sandifermessages Glad to help. :)

reddragdiva any tips? how hard should i work on this thing? how should i market it? etc etc just off the top of your head, i know ( Read more... )

CodeValley is the latest from the world of Blockchain™.
The "idea" is that you have a problem, so you put up a contract to fully-automated Vendors to supply the libs for a program to solve your problem. At no point does a coder have to write actual code apparently, it's all done by the machines ... somehow. All of this is paid for in penny ( Read more... )

One critical aspect of the plagues, though, was quickly refilling ( Read more... )

The thing that really struck me about Hugo vote-stackers the Sad Puppies was founder Brad Torgersen’s lament that he could no longer tell from the cover of a science fiction novel what it was about. So I wrote a rant on Tumblr and just put a more polished version up on Rocknerd and it's quite popular. Intro:
I won’t try to explain the entire saga ( Read more... )

I've been posting almost-daily to Rocknerd of late (I missed one day in each of June and July). And I have a new theme, which looks nice!
So if you haven't been around in a while, go back through about the last three front pages. It's great fun. I feel like I'm writing a fanzine again.
There's also a box on the right-hand side of the page where ( Read more... )

Yet another in the series "stuff I'm blogging so future poor buggers can find it in Google."
If you've seen this supercilious and not actually helpful error from ant:
Cause: Could not load a dependent class com/jcraft/jsch/Logger ( Read more... )