Al__Dante
Deciding whether to learn a language or learn how to write a compiler is more difficult. If you are struggling with the Dragon book, have you condidered "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML"? Although ML is even more niche than Haskell, it is a functional language and the book takes you step-by-step through the process of writing a compiler for (a subset of) it.
Yeah, right. :-)
In short, we can't extract more than about half of the available wind energy, no matter what the design.
This is because if all kinetic energy is extracted, the air would no longer be moving behind the windmill, so it would stop turning. Betz's law is the optimum compromise between extracting energy and sufficient airflow to keep the windmill rotating.
Describes how to setup usbip on the Raspberry Pi.
"2 (i) Sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail customer 3 other than through <del>its</del> franchised dealers, unless the retail 4 customer is a nonprofit organization or a federal, state, or local 5 government or agency. This subdivision does not prohibit a 6 manufacturer from providing information to a consumer for the 7 purpose of marketing or facilitating the sale of new motor vehicles 8 or from establishing a program to sell or offer to sell new motor 9 vehicles through the <del>manufacturer's</del> FRANCHISED new motor vehicle 10 dealers THAT SELL AND SERVICE NEW MOTOR VEHICLES PRODUCED BY THE 11 MANUFACTURER."
Link to the passage of the bill: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(zkgdwb45ddzp3imtvsszat55))/...
Link to the substitute bill: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(zkgdwb45ddzp3imtvsszat55))/...
"1.1 Getting Started The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. The first program to write is the same for all languages: Print the words hello, world"
I find it interesting, because K&R seem to assume that this was already a standard approach, and also because of the comma after hello. In my first attempt in a new language, I don't think I would be paying that much attention to grammar...
Although you paint a pretty bleak picture of the finances, as others have pointed out above, this does not reflect the economic reality.
The typo impacted your profit margin significantly - without it, you would have had an additional $7k and a margin of 19%.
But this is only a side show. Even if you had made 0% on the posters shipped to the Kickstarter backers, the 800 posters remaining represent a book value of $96k. (Less a few hundred dollars for storage).
Assuming you can sell at this price, your three years work will be amply remunerated for a part-time project.
In the end, Kickstarter functioned as it should. It reduced your risk by providing a pool of known buyers and left you with the infrastructure for approaching your market. That market is your final reward.
Learn 10 Chinese or Japanese characters
Learn 10 phrases in Hindi, Indonesian, Russian and Spanish
Visit a refugee camp
Go to Botswana
Build something with a Raspberry Pi
Cook scrambled eggs sous vide