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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.