I'm the author of four nonfiction books, none about programming and none self-published, but I think some of my experience still holds.
I'm the author of four nonfiction books, none about programming and none self-published, but I think some of my experience still holds. You're doing market research. That's great, and it's a step that a lot of people neglect to do before embarking on a book-length project. A traditional publisher would expect you to do a decent amount of this in your proposal, and the thing they're looking for is, "How is this different enough from everything that's already out there that it fills an unmet need, but similar enough to books that have sold well that we can expect it to sell well too?" The other thing that a lot of would-be authors underestimate the importance of is their platform. Anybody can come up with a great book idea, far fewer can actually write it well... but the real differentiator is how big of an existing audience you have and how well you can sell it to them. Finally, you've thrown out a grab bag of possible titles, but which of those are you truly passionate about? If you do commit to writing a book, it's like a marriage. It's going to be misery if you aren't genuinely interested in your partner.
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The biggest problem with MOND is that it was hand-crafted with additional parameters simply to fit the data.
(My comment is about detached houses).
The biggest problem with this is that I can't run my company's own internal benchmarks against this API, because they will be trained int...
> steer Claude away from over-engineering parts of the system in response to hypothetical concerns.
Why is there no comparison with FLUX 3 Image?
> our Git monorepo was developing an annoying problem Sentences like this are so common from people using monorepos that I am convinced ...
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I'm the author of four nonfiction books, none about programming and none self-published, but I think some of my experience still holds.
I'm the author of four nonfiction books, none about programming and none self-published, but I think some of my experience still holds. You're doing market research. That's great, and it's a step that a lot of people neglect to do before embarking on a book-length project. A traditional publisher would expect you to do a decent amount of this in your proposal, and the thing they're looking for is, "How is this different enough from everything that's already out there that it fills an unmet need, but similar enough to books that have sold well that we can expect it to sell well too?" The other thing that a lot of would-be authors underestimate the importance of is their platform. Anybody can come up with a great book idea, far fewer can actually write it well... but the real differentiator is how big of an existing audience you have and how well you can sell it to them. Finally, you've thrown out a grab bag of possible titles, but which of those are you truly passionate about? If you do commit to writing a book, it's like a marriage. It's going to be misery if you aren't genuinely interested in your partner.
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