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Why does everyone want money for this kind of content. It's exhausting.
by fud101 4y ago
Why does everyone want money for this kind of content. It's exhausting.
- nerdponx 4y agoWhere is the author asking for money?
- no_carrier 4y agoIt looks like a free article to me?
- jjice 4y agoI mean, generally the ROI on stuff like this is pretty solid. Looks like the book is $36 new. From a quick Google, the average software engineer (who is the group most likely to read and benefit from this book) makes 90k per year. Gross, that's 45 dollars an hour. If I buy this book and it saves me one hour of time writing tests, writing better tests, debugging tests, or whatever, it will have paid for itself. That's obviously not counting reading time, but I believe the point stands. All the time saves after that first hour is gravy on top Also, content takes time to make. If you want to charge for it I think that's completely fine. It's not like it must be our based.
- pamelafox 4y agoHis book is great, highly recommend, especially if you like hands-on tutorial style. I am a pytest convert now after spending a decade using unittest.
- fud101 4y agoyeah and there is a million other things we need to know. you want to us buy every book or course that comes along for a million different topics which you don't know if it will be worthwhile before the fact?
- mvdwoord 4y ago"If I buy this book and it saves me one hour of time writing tests, writing better tests, debugging tests, or whatever, it will have paid for itself." Only if you have unlimited potential work for that rate, and are actually billing for contracted work, not by the hour. In most scenarios, you will have paid for the book yourself, spent some time reading it (hopefully billable hours) and there is a real chance increased knowledge actually leads to more work, as you now have a more in depth understanding of the topic. To me it all reads like the typing speed vs productivity essays. Yes, you should not be hindered by hunt and peck style typing interfering with your train of thoughts. But never seen someone who writes actual loc or actual content (not casual e-mail replies) where typing speed drives productivity in any way.
- jjice 4y agoYou're right that it doesn't translate literally to cash, but I've been able to cite increased velocity or point to systems I've designed at work with concepts I learned from similarly process books that allowed me to push for some solid compensation increases and I think the couple hundred dollars in books I purchase a year has allowed me to do that.
- adave 4y agoIts like saying why does an engineer want payment for work done.It's book which are notably hard to write, what your are saying is why is it not free? Imo freeloaders are exhausting and you are free to search for content and release one for free.