stuartk

Have you considered having some lower levels on Patreon?

I liked the sound of your book so went over to your page, but $30 per month minimum isn't something I would want to pay. I suspect others will feel the same.

In MAIN.agc there is a list of bugger words. Not that I know assembly in any meaningful way, but I've never come across this term before.

On Googling, it seems to be something to do with a checksum value?

I literally shuddered when I read this.

Significant whitespace to me is one of the fundamental parts of Python that if messed with, makes it not Python.

Perhaps this will make it slightly easier for people coming from PHP, Javascript or one of the many languages that do use curly braces, but significant whitespace is a selling point, not a hinderance IMO.

My first thought on reading this was "wow, two clients a week!"

I've never got to grips with the client acquisition process, it's always been hit and miss and somewhat random for me.

Could someone point me in the direction of a good resource for getting consulting clients on a consistent and repeatable basis?

I remember when I was a kid, my dad used to line the edge of the bowl with cucumber so he could pile the salad a bit higher. But this is a whole new level.

I doubt that everyone in China was doing this. I imagine you'd be standing at the salad bar a long time making a master piece like that.

I had a screenshot on the front page before, but replaced it with the intro video. I should probably create a tour page, with screenshots of various parts of the app.

SSL is coming soon.

Thanks for the feedback.

I like the thought of a Forever Company. Often we start businesses to sell it, and then to start on something else.

In a way the forever company is you, 'Me Inc' as it were. Hopefully forever building and growing.

It says there are 13,000 licences for black and white TV's, so I wonder how many of those are just trying to get their licences cheap but actually own a colour TV.

I generally hate anything christmassy before December 1st, but after that point, it's fair game. That includes mince pies.

That's a feature I might add, location of consumption. Thanks.

I did consider that, but it would be far too easy to just put #mpt #eaten 10000. So I left it as 1 per tweet.

Just for fun.

I loved that show, but it only ran for 2 seasons I think. Shame.

I'm currently creating a product using the Tornadio2 wrapper. The developer Serge is actively developing, and is very helpful.

HAProxy is often used for load balancing websockets as it supports tcp proxies.

There is a tcp module for nginx that can be compiled in at https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_tcp_proxy_module

+1 for tornado. And I also use Tornadio, which implements the backend for Socket.io.

One solution I rarely see mentioned in these discussions is Amazon payments. Does anyone use them?

Most comment threads that I see on HN, by and large, contain both sides to any argument.

They're like a conversation you might have with a friend, one person gives their opinion, the other perhaps gives the opposing argument and so on.

But of course, if you take any single comment out of context, it's usually either positive or negative. There are exceptions where commenters give a more rounded, thought out perspective, but it's mainly short opinionated comments.

And that's how conversations often are; short, off the cuff remarks. Rarely carefully worded, equal handed monologues.

Thanks Mike, that's helped me see where I need to focus my attention.

I was looking at direct webcam recording, but was going to add that later. But given your comments I think that is a must now, to enable quick and seamless video comments and feedback.

Regarding music teachers paying, I mentioned in the other thread to Matt that I may be thinking more towards making it free for teachers, charging students per course, and taking a percentage.

Re mockups, I am creating html mocks, but I'll look at the quick prototyping mockups so I can pitch to various music schools.

Thanks for the advice, you are a true gent!

Thanks for the comments Matt. Having at least one person say 'I would use this' is a nice boost!

I wasn't going to have it exclusively for guitar, but musical instrument lessons are an ideal fit for video feedback. I'm sure there are other niches too where video is the ideal medium for this.

I've had the domain lessonboss.com for a while, and I was going to use that for this.

Perhaps I could have the feedback videos viewable by all, and allow peer review/feedback. It would take the pressure off the teacher to feedback, especially in larger class sizes.

And I'm still undecided about the revenue model, whether to charge the teacher, students or both. Moving more towards free for teacher, charge the students, take a percentage. It would be difficult to have a free option due to the cost of hosting video.

Thanks Mike! Would you be able to give me some feedback on a product idea I'm working on?

Its a platform for video tutorials where the student gives their response for a lesson via video also. The first use case that comes to mind is guitar teachers. Students can post video responses to lessons and be corrected/ advised. The teacher would pay for the platform and perhaps charge th students through the site, or even off site.

Do you feel this has legs? Any thoughts or ideas welcome. Thanks! Stuart

SEEKING WORK - Django/Python development, with jquery, html, css, based in the UK (Cornwall). Looking to fill about 10 hours a week with any remote projects. Will happily take on rescue/maintenance work.

Did a quick search and found this:

http://www.asian-central.com/stuffasianpeoplelike/2008/03/17...

Essentially, they are seen as the most 'refined' instruments to learn and play.

The piano is chosen as you need to learn both treble and bass clef to play, the violin because they are portable and light enough for very young children to hold.

From tfa.

I'm with you there.

It's not often that so much can be wrapped up in just 4 words.

It would be more impressive if the site was actually running on the original server and software, but I imagine that machine is safely tucked away in their museum.

This is encouraging to those looking for ideas for startups, it basically means that someone will find your idea 'amazing' or 'genius'.

The trick is, not just finding 1 person, but many people who think it. And not only that it's amazing, but so amazing that they'll pay you for it.

On the plus side, this should mean that for any reasonable idea, given the size of the internet, you should be able to find at least a small bunch of people that will pay for your 'genius'.

Thanks for that post, excellent.

It's quite comforting, yet scary at the same time, to realise that the stuff you know you don't know is probably going to grow throughout your life, but that this is a good thing! Because it beats the hell out of not knowing what you don't know. Although I wonder if that would lead to a simpler life sometimes.

I'm based in the UK, and last year spent a couple months dealing with recruiters whilst trying to find a new position.

I dealt with several companies, and got several job interviews. All the positions were as described, and I never got any nasty shocks.

I may just have been lucky, but is anyone from the UK coming across these shady recruiter tactics, or is the problem US centric?

This looks like a really nice way to write a book, or in fact any other large body of work.

It avoids the monolithic todo list item - 'write book', and breaks things up into manageable chunks.

Good point in regards to a faster release schedule for South.

And yes, it is part of my workflow.

But for a new Django developer, it's not obvious, as it's not part of the documentation.

Some of the apps do just that, integrate nicely, don't get in the way of the rest of your project, and do their job.

But many apps need all manner of templates, settings, url confs etc to use them. In those cases it's sometimes easier to write something simple yourself.