My comment wasn't downvoted, it was automatically deleted (as were most of my recent comments). If HN admins read this, I would be grateful if you could check why it's happening.
As for the actual question, to succeed Flattr needs a significantly larger user base. I use it for an open-source project of mine and have got only a couple of flattrs so far, even though the downloads are measured in thousands.
Instead of writing my CV in TeX, I did it in markdown with pandoc [0] extensions. The good thing about this approach is that (a) the source is much more readable than TeX and (b) there are more conversion options, e.g. html is much saner than when using one of TeX2Html converters.
The result is in my website [1][2], the source code is on GitHub [3].
> since I literally don't know any mainstream -nix that ships without Perl in the core, and I know several that ship without bash
FreeBSD doesn't have Perl in the base system (but of course has it in the ports). Same with Bash though, but the Bourne shell is of course in the base.
Most characters in the show are much older than in the books[1]. That's especially apparent in children, a few years make quite a difference. Apart from the age, I find Cersei and Sandor misrepresented.
On a similar note, don't watch the show until you read the first book (if you intend to, eventually). Some characters in the show are spot on, some are way off.
If you are going to use GTK+, take a look at Vala [1]. It's a C#-like language which is compiled into C. Much saner than coding in C. You can easily port your app to Windows/OSX, but, as others noted, non-native UI will be far from perfect.
I'm using this approach in an open-source project of mine [2], feel free to borrow the ideas.
Targeting only their own country is totally understandable. What really irritates me is websites using a .com domain but not mentioning they are US-only until the very last step in the signup/payment process. At least mention this on the About page, or better yet, use a .us TLD if you are not going to expand.
> However, if I want to use the Microsoft-provided free MS Virtual Machine images, I have to run them on Virtual PC despite the fact that I have a perfectly good VMWare installation. On my Mac, this means running windows on VMWare, and then Virtual PC inside that virtual machine. This is insanity. I'm trying to support your product, you should be making it as easy as possible for me. Even Apple ported Safari to Windows.
To be honest, Apple is much much worse in this sense. I can buy Windows X and install it in a VM of my choice. Try this with OS X. And the only reason I need it is to port my app to their platform, potentially enhancing their ecosystem.
Just a suggestion, please make it possible to link to the current issue with a unique URL. There's no good reason why [1] works and [2] doesn't work (yet). I had to append a random parameter to the home page URL to make it HN-submit-form-friendly.
On a different note, thanks for offering the ebook version at the same time as the dead tree version. Well worth the 3 bucks.