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Just so you know, your HN comment history meant my boss said we could not buy your Catalyst book. I, personally, think your comments are nearly always valuabl
by dtby 16y ago
Just so you know, your HN comment history meant my boss said we could not buy your Catalyst book. I, personally, think your comments are nearly always valuable, but I could not sell it.
- danparsonson 16y agoWhat an odd thing to say, particularly in a public forum - jrockway's profile lists an email address; wouldn't direct contact make more sense for this sort of thing?
- dtby 16y agoNot when we're discussing royalties based on public personae. jrockway and I have no personal relationship. I don't feel any need to create one, certainly not based on not buying his book. I'm just guessing he has more interesting emails from Nigerians with inheritances.
- tptacek 16y agoWell, that's 0.03c USD he'll never see.
- dtby 16y agoUnlike others in this thread, did not pretend he would give a crap about 8 books.
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- tome 16y agoThis is a very cryptic comment. Could you please clarify?
- dtby 16y agoIt's not so cryptic. We were implementing an API based on using Catalyst. My boss asked if there were Catalyst books I could recommend. I recommened jrockway's. After a review of his HN comments, my boss decided to depend on Internet resources. It's not complicated. Mixing up your profit-making identity with your being-real identity does not always translate to increased profits.
- thomas11 16y agoWait, to evaluate a 40$ book purchase, your boss tracked down the author's HN account and "reviewed" his comments? Where do you work, some secret service that's afraid of saboteurs masquerading as Perl hackers?
- tome 16y agoThis is exactly why I'm confused. It doesn't seem to make any sense. What exactly has jrockway said that means you can't buy his book about a web framework?
- dtby 16y agoI don't pretend to know his motivations.
- dtby 16y agoMy boss has a sense of technical competemce which I do not care to review because he pays me 2.5 boatloads of money. He doesn't want to buy the book? Could not possibly care less. Somebody else might.
- jrockway 16y agoIs this the sort of thing that you should say in a forum that you've already admitted your boss reads and makes purchasing decisions based on?
- jrockway 16y agoHilarious. This sort of story is worth significantly more to me than the $3 I get per book. You should buy mst and kd's book, it's much more up to date: http://apress.com/book/view/1430223650 http://apress.com/book/view/1430223650
- tptacek 16y agoYou get THREE DOLLARS PER BOOK? Who's your publisher? Perl web frameworks are that popular?!
- jrockway 16y agoApparently the $2 that normally goes to typesetting the book in something other than MS Word, and the $1 that pays the editor to not edit my correct grammar into incorrect grammar went directly to me.
- mst 16y agoI wonder if he'll consider my comment history to be a "buy" or "don't buy" for the apress book then ...