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…
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…
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…
"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…
Imagine if all UNIX users had taken this approach - making modifications to suit their own tastes, and writing a public diary entry, instead of making their own changes _and_ then trying to get them into the source tree…
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…
Your first sentence is good. But putting it out there suggest I've hit a nerve. Indeed, the world may turned upside down. What is sleaze today may not be sleaze many years from now. It is too early to tell what will…
"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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
Imagine if all UNIX users had taken this approach - making modifications to suit their own tastes, and writing a public diary entry, instead of making their own changes _and_ then trying to get them into the source tree…
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…
Your first sentence is good. But putting it out there suggest I've hit a nerve. Indeed, the world may turned upside down. What is sleaze today may not be sleaze many years from now. It is too early to tell what will…
"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…
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…
"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…
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…