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I'm working on a short technical book at the moment and I'm having a hard time picking the perfect approach to take.

Leanpub is one of the easiest to get started with.

Softcover provides a better interface for readers (and a lot of nifty features specifically for technical books).

But I'm also half-tempted to just go solo, publish the thing online for free and sell access to the PDF/screencasts via Gumroad.

Would love to hear people's opinions about the best way to go both in terms of the best way of writing, the best experience for readers, and also financial results — does being on Leanpub actually put you in front of a sizeable, willing-to-buy audience? Or do you still need to still give your book that initial marketing push?

Thanks.

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I'm a computer geek who has very little interest in preparing "real" food and am keen to get my hands on Soylent as soon as possible (the fact that I live in Australia makes that problematic for the moment, although I may just take the DIY approach).

I've also been video blogging for a while and, as part of a new channel I'm working on, I'd like to experiment on myself in various ways and talk about the results. For that, Soylent seems like a good place to start.

I do have a few questions though:

* What do you want to see/hear from someone's experience with Soylent?

* What tests are worth getting to demonstrate before/after results?

* What are some of the best experiments that have been conducted so far?

The plan is to do a daily video for a month, then a large write-up, and if the trial seems promising, I'll continue with 1-2 videos per week.

There's no "catch" to this — if I'm lucky, ads on YouTube will pay for a day's worth of Soylent — but I do enjoy this sort of thing and plan to put a considerable amount of time and effort into making sure the videos are interesting and informative. (There'll be proper editing, etc.) I also have enough reservations about Soylent that I won't just be spouting their PR copy. I want it to work but I'm prepared to be critical.

If all of that sounds good to you, I'd love to hear your input

TL;DR — I want to do a daily video blog while experimenting with Soylent and want to know what you'd like to see/hear from that video blog. What tests I should get, etc.

I'm looking for remote work and sites like WeWorkRemotely.com and Angel.co are useful, but are there are any other sites I should be looking at? Or even any just precise startups that allow people to work remotely?

Thanks.

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A friend of mine has recently started doing translation work and I want to help her setup a website where she could translate interfaces for web apps, and then maybe mobile apps later on.<p>I'm only technical enough to setup a website but have very little programming experience so my question is:<p>What's the most convenient format for a translation to be delivered in?<p>Like, would she deliver them as a spreadsheet? Or a comma-separated text file, or an XML file, or something else?<p>I imagine there's many methods of handling translations between different methods of making software, but any nudges in the right direction would help. :)

So I'm relatively tech-y and looking for a customer support job I can do remotely (although it doesn't have to be strictly tech-oriented).

I'm loving weworkremotely.com at the moment but was wondering, are there any other sites I can use to find remote jobs?

Or do you know of any companies in particular that are hiring? (Not necessarily your own.)

Any help would be appreciated. :)