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by ahoyhere 14y ago
In your arguments against presales, you haven't said why you think that the other way is better. What's your reasoning? I'm assuming "because one creates better publicity" isn't it, since you seem to have something against the idea for de
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Women seem to have it much harder…" -- as a woman who has totally opted out of this, I can tell you that women make it much harder… on themselves . Not even on each other, not unless you're hanging out with the wrong people. I think of
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
And maybe "quality" isn't what novelty-addicted hackers think it is.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Good. Good luck!
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
It can be either easier or harder. Depends on your consulting pipeline, skills, hourly rate, and the job you're comparing it to. Many jobs are pretty much clock-in, clock-out, which means that before & after work you don't have to worry
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I've hired cheap developers and I've hired $150+/hr developers and I can tell you, I still work with the $150+/hr developers and not with any of the cheap ones. There's a reason for that: low pricing represents a kind of fundamental lazines
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
OP, I'm always glad to hear when my words and my story inspire. And I realize there's no point in me telling you "Don't quit your job!" because obviously that horse has left the barn. But what Patrick says is right: consulting is a GREAT op
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Pushing up daisies" ring a bell?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
So you kept reading it why? You're armchair quarterbacking -- the OP isn't. You're commenting on his actual web site, telling everybody how it should be. That is armchair quarterbacking. He wrote a blog post for a general audience. It wasn'
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Why don't you just accept that the blog post isn't for you, instead of wasting your time trying to tear it down? Nobody made you read it. He's not actually ordering YOU to do anything. He wrote in a way that reaches his actual audience, whi
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If there's one lesson that I could teach the younger generation, it's that you ought to trust what a person shows you & tells you about their honor and the value they place on their word. When a person shows you who they truly are by ac
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Your whole argument about him doing this for promotional purposes hinges on the idea that he gets something out of it (e.g. sales). You have no real reason to believe that he takes a "contrarian" position to "get a rise out of others," ot
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes, and that's an opinion. And he doesn't say it is a fact.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You spent 47% of your words in your comment on that paragraph because "somebody had to say it", and it was incorrect. Is 50% of what you write being incorrect a "minor" issue? And as for my entirely predictable defense of my husband… anyone
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That's like saying that "Car crashes, in most cases, are not fatal" is weasel words at work, when in fact it's simply a fact. Car crashes are not fatal, in most cases. And in JS, a line break indicates the end of a statement, in most cases.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Whitespace is significant sometimes, and not other times. That's the fact of the language design/ASI itself, not Thomas being contrary. As to this: leveraging it as a marketing opportunity for himself (and, by extension, his consulting and
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
> These are weasel words. No, actually, that's how it works in JS. ASI doesn't "work" in all cases because a line break doesn't always indicate the end of a statement. No less than Brendan Eich wrote this himself, in his blog post rep
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's a mistake to think that a startup's goal is "to beat big companies." Especially by "outproducing them." Obviously Treehouse is doing fantastically on the revenue front. What big company are trying to "beat" or "outproduce" exactly?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
…but Javascript code is pretty worthless without the server-side API, HTML and CSS that goes with it. Well now, that depends heavily on what you're doing with the JavaScript. Our JS, for example, is far from worthless and we already hav
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I absolutely agree with you! But "note why someone doesn't want to go to conferences any more" is not what this essay did. He systematically painted everyone involved as a bastard, simply because they like doing something he doesn't. He did
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's link bait, or ego bait, pure and simple. See how he extrapolates "We have free beer on Fridays" with "Non-drinkers need not apply." Ludicrous.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're right. The drinking was always epic at OSCON in the early 2000s -- a conf that has historically been full of the purest OSS nerds, least brogrammer types. And let's not even get started on PERL events. Free as in beer, you know.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Ah, so, because you feel excluded, you believe that conferences should be remade in a way that makes you feel included. And who will that cause to feel excluded? Not to mention, other than your colorful editorializations of what you think
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I'm sure you meant well. This is simply what happens when people make mountains out of miniature molehills, repeatedly and ludicrously, all over the internet.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's sexist to assume all women have problems with conferences simply because they're women, or that we all think the same. Just sayin'.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I go to conf after-parties and I barely drink at all any more, due to a health problem. Nobody has ever given me shit, and I enjoyed myself just as much as ever. I originally worried that people were going to seem obnoxious when they were d
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That's a good point. I think it matters a lot WHAT you're selling. At $500+ a head for a day, our JavaScript workshop is more expensive than just about any other way of learning JavaScript. But we get almost exclusively rave reviews, becaus
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The sale process & rationale for education and tools is very different from fiction. With a few exceptions, it's much easier & powerful to sell on value (learn this, do this, get better at this, fix this, eliminate this and you wi
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Thanks. I'd hope if I were a liar trying to convince you to buy my "get rich quick" program, I'd make up a better lie than 3 years, haha. FTR: just under 30% of the revenue last year was from my class, but that's primarily because A) infopr
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It was promoted as being easy for people who already knew how to program . Which it was. The 5-minute blog video wouldn't help a total newb at all, but to an experienced developer it's clear how powerful it was.

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