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Re:SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure by thattommyhall2 on Sunday September 06, 2015 @06:13PM (#10179276)
Either of you please email me with your backer number and I can refund you or turn what you paid into a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières if you are not happy.

I am very pleased with what is there so far, think it genuinely captures all the best bits in an accessible way. I am most proud of the Escher and Evaluator bits and associated projects.

I have lots more partially complete, feel I have a fair bit of momentum now and do still intend to make videos as I said in the update to backers, backers will see them first. I am genuinely sorry it has taken so long to get this out.

I think I was quite fair minded re: pricing etc during the kickstarter. I changed it from a sliding scale to allowing unlimited people taking the lowest amount (£20), then created a 'pay what you can' tier and invited people to switch to it if they wished.

Best wishes, Tom

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Re:SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure by agumonkey on Sunday September 06, 2015 @07:28PM (#10179494)
It seems like a communication problem. If you're still going forward but don't push sub-par content out in the public due to pressure, this is acceptable; but if people don't know (I can't read the KS status updates, but there's not many of them) they'll be angry just because of that.
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Re:SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure by DigitalJack on Sunday September 06, 2015 @07:12PM (#10179461)
I think you are off to a great start, and appreciate the effort.
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