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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.


I feel overwhelming gratitude already. Thank you! I will surely be experimenting more with Patreon and the pledges as I go along. Starting with the lower levels on Patreon! :) I've now now included a $1 pledge to set the ball rolling.


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?


yep, checksums


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.


It is actually a very common practice. Usually one family member will compose the plate, but everyone will share it.

It is amazing that the corporation did not take the simple route of removing the single serving limit instead of the route of removing the salad bar all together.


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.


We're veering dangerously close to "personal brand" here. http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-am-a-brand-pathetic-man-s...


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.


At a "saving" of almost £100 that does seem by far the most likely explanation.


The language in that article seems to suggest that they're about to launch an offensive against the BW license payers.


My mother was fined for having a colour television whilst having a black and white license. She had forgotten to upgrade since being given the television from my grand parents.


Why would someone pay for a TV license at all in that case?


To stop all the letters. I had no TV for a couple of years and we would get letters all the time. Even when told the inspectors would still try and come round. They even faked who they were once, pretended they were here to deliver a package.


An irrational sense of not cheating quite as much. A vast overestimation of TV Licensing's ability to detect you - something like correlating cable/satellite subscription databases with license payers list (as if paying for cable, but claiming to own a BW TV set isn't a red flag) and the nefarious detector vans.


As for the detector vans: does anyone know if they actually exist?

Several times in the past I have looked up information on them, and all I find seems to be in the realm of urban legend -slash- marketing ploy.

What is the physical principle behind this tech? Does anyone have reliable information?


The physical principle is that they detect the leakage from the local oscillator in the superheterodyne receiver circuit.

I very much doubt that they exist now, if they ever did. It just isn't cost efficient compared to sending out letters and low paid inspectors who peer through windows looking for people watching TV.


The only means I know of for one to reliably detect the image on the screen would be TEMPEST style attacks [1]. I doubt that Capita can afford to buy the necessary equipment, or even views it as economically viable given the volume of letters they sent out - 56 million letters were sent in 2009, for example [2].

I'm not sure if modern TVs will even emit anything obvious since the connection from the decoder to the panel is covered in EMI shielding.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) [2] : http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-administering-the-tv-...


Makes me wonder how sensitive the vans are. The other methods you quoted seems to be much more accurate

(not to mention seeing varying shades of light behind the curtain)


Because they lessen the likelihood that the licensing folks are going to be knocking on their door.


Perhaps the idea is that they are less likely to get a visit from the TV License inspectors if they have a B&W license vs no license at all?


Contrast = 0. Hipster.


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.


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