righyeah

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by righyeah 14y ago
Upon further reflection, I retract all my prior statements. I concede defeat. You win the "debate". Alas I cannot downvote my original comment back to "1". I will need help. Any takers? What were those upvoters thinking anyway? Surel
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by righyeah 14y ago
To be fair, what I am commenting on goes well beyond this specific blog. The type of practice I've described gets much, much worse than what is on this blog. But is essentially the same thing, only to a different degree. It's ironic that
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by righyeah 14y ago
If the niche products are doing so well, then why the need to sell consulting? I mean if you have a product that is truly revolutionizing the time management space, one would think that business would constinue to grow and require a lot o
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by righyeah 14y ago
"none of [his] products are about how to build products. They're about how to do better consulting..." The question is: What is being consulting on? Is it substantive? Building products seems substantive. Especially building products that
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by righyeah 14y ago
You've also nailed it with your first sentence. The answer to your question of whether the book is necessary is in the blog post (I think marketers call this a "sales letter"?). It is in bold. It describes a person who wants to pay money
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by righyeah 14y ago
"It's like condemning all..." No, it is not like that. I'm not sure why you would see it that way. It is condemning a very specific practice. This practice is much like multi-level marketing. You might think of it as a sort of recursion.
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by righyeah 14y ago
True. There is nothing wrong with git. It is great software. But like a good song, if the radio stations overplay it, they can ruin the enjoyment of it for some listeners. I think maybe we (nerds) all have the urge to be fanboys. We all
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by righyeah 14y ago
"No ordinary FTP client can do that." Use ncftp or lftp. Problem solved. But there never was a problem. Those ftp client have been around since the mid-1990's. He created a "problem" in order to play with a favorite software: git. This
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by righyeah 14y ago
You've nailed it with your first paragraph. That is the scheme. It's old. It still works. The web, like TV, is absolutely perfect for this scheme. The audience that includes people who would pay for this sort of advice is the one that w