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It'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
by dtby 16y ago
It'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 agoAlso, calling my book "profit making" is ... misleading. I wrote it because the community needed a book and I wanted to write it. 3 years of revenue on the book equals about two weeks of my regular job. Any future books I write will be for the same reason -- because I feel like people will benefit from reading it. You don't write a tech book to get rich.
- dtby 16y agoFair enough. I'm not pretending to have any great insights here. In fact, it turns out I misread your initial comment, which led to this over-blown thread.