"The Finest Machine" thread on reddit
Donnie Jones, my co-conspirator in the Texan times of NVIDIA, started a TFM reddit thread because he's both a gentleman and a scholar (save as it regards the African nation of Chad, where he is known as the Louisville Scourge). There's been some interesting discussion there. Check out the support, the criticism, and my responses (and feel free to upvote, lol!):
http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/sjvpe/the_finest_machine_kickstarter_i_hope_to_explain/
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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on May 10, 2012.
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Free electronic edition. Thanks on the project's website, and in the electronic edition of the book.
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An autographed first-run hardback and paperback, thanks in all media, and an email sent to Dan Moore in your name saying "here's the $100 reward; sorry i can't come up with more permutations of free copies and thanks."
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Everything you get at the $500 level, plus advisory rights on naming of metasyntactic characters (aka Alyssa P. Hacker, Ben Bitdiddle, Eva Lu Ator, Louis Reasoner, George P. Burdell, etc).
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If any single donor ponies up $5k, I'll make the electronic edition free, and open source the LaTeX text and all peripheral tools. You'll be credited (if you wish) for making this awesome possibility a reality!
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Creator nick black on April 23, 2012
If you weren't aware, LaTeX source code for the material thus far is available: https://github.com/dankamongmen/thefinestmachine. Enjoy some fairly intense abuse of LaTeX's table of contents functionality!