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Comment on Tekpub Value by sheldon

sheldon — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:06:18 +0000

@NiK Oh, and I’m like Sheldon from BBT in that I’m an engineer and I look at things logically but I’m only about 10% as smart, 200% larger, and I have 50% less hair.

Comment on Tekpub Value by sheldon

sheldon — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:02:05 +0000

@Nik Fair enough. I relent! Tekpub is a tremendous yearly value! < – Make that the headline! No matter how many screencasts there are! . I love Tekpub and buy the screeencasts I want to see. But it comes out to less than $200/year (or close to $300 if it’s not on sale). And I find that when I pay for them individually I tend to watch right away as opposed to a subscription where I think to myself I can watch it later when something new comes out (I purchased the Node one as soon as it was published and watched a few days later…RECOMMENDED). It’s just win win for me and I thought I had done some analysis about where to put my money and was kinda proud of myself but instead I just pissed off Rob and his ragtag band of defenders. Oh well. I had a followup post to this that I never published because I didn’t want to deal with the “hate mail” and didn’t want to make it worse.

Comment on Tekpub Value by NiK

NiK — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:33:39 +0000

@Sheldon – I have to say that this post is very cheap on your part. I have been tekpub customer since its launch and I really enjoyed each and every screen cast they have produced…you are only considering the screencasts produced in 2011…but thats not the way you should see it…you must look at it as how much total content is available in the library…you are paying $200 not to access the 2011 library only…instead you can access all the previous content…2009 – present…again a very cheap assessment of yours…and you seem like the Sheldon guy in “The Big Bang Theory”…

Comment on Been a long time . . . and today is about Taxes! by theUg

theUg — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:00:06 +0000

Dear John. If you knew anything about what is “commonly known as Marxism” you would not spew that utter nonsense. Marxism does not concern itself with taxes on higher earners. It aims to remove means of production from private property altogether. Read a bloody book sometime.

As for taxes, I believe there should be flat income tax, and luxury tax. If one wishes to have more than generously necessary for happy existence, one is free to do so, but must pay for a privilege of gobbling up the resources to do so.

Comment on Tekpub Value by sheldon

sheldon — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:18:25 +0000

@RobConery I really need to write more since obviously my communication skills are lacking here and I need more practice. Maybe after 10,000 hours of writing this won’t happen.

I DID pay a dime . . . 2000 of them in fact. You gave me a free year which was awesome and I’m grateful. And at renewal time I didn’t even hesitate and paid for the next year . . . no analysis was necessary (I had a new job and felt RICH anyway after being on my own for a year). This year I wanted to point out that if I paid for each new production individually it would have been less than $200. I thought that was interesting.

I’m still a customer. I’m still going to buy new productions as they come out. I still follow @Tekpub and you on twitter (well, until you block me for being annoying). Those names are big enough (except Ayende . . . I don’t give a shit about NHibernate ). I’ll pay twice for the Scott Hansleman production. In fact, when it comes out I’ll put the receipts here on the blog.

That said, I stand by my assessment. Paying individually for the productions I want to see is probably the best way to go.

Sheldon

Comment on Tekpub Value by Rob Conery

Rob Conery — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:11:53 +0000

I want to be a nice guy about this – I don’t mind if people don’t find value. I don’t mind if names like Ayende Rahien, Jon Skeet, Brad Wilson and Scott Hanselman aren’t big enough.

To each their own.

The thing that I think gets under my skin is you didn’t pay a dime for your yearly. And yet… this post. I’m not sure what it is you’re trying to accomplish Sheldon – you win a free annual and you decide that it would be fun to write a post on why it’s not worth it to buy another… what do you think I can do with this? Charge more? Stop what I’m doing?

It doesn’t matter I spose. Probably a better idea if you head over to Pluralsight.

Comment on Taking half by sheldon

sheldon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:10:38 +0000

@adron True on the simple analogies. False on the “there isn’t enough to go around”. There is PLENTY to go around. But the difference between what the CEO makes and what the typical worker makes is way off. CEO does add more value . . . but not 200x more. Running a business is valuable, but being a businessman isn’t any more work that being a programmer. It’s different work. But somehow the businessman makes 200x more. I know this sounds socialist . . . but it’s not about replacing the Democracy or the market economy . . . it’s about valuing peoples work.

Comment on Tekpub Value by sheldon

sheldon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:58:58 +0000

@adronhall There is value in Tekpub . . . but I guess I’m saying there isn’t $200 worth. For me anyway. And, yeah, TV’s are bad news and time wasters. But I’ll use it to play StarCraft too, I promise. The Lego train is hours of entertainment. Best $200 I’ve spent. People who visit will be more intrigued by that than they will of the TV and Kinect (which is partly why I got a new TV). And I WILL buy TekPub publications in the future, just not a subscription. At least until they’re churning out way more publications I’m interested in.

Comment on Tekpub Value by Adron

Adron — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:40:07 +0000

Sounds kind of like you have bad priorities for a software developer. At least, ya know, if you actually like software development. There is a ton of value in TekPub videos, some in a Lego Train (especially if you have kids), and practically ZERO (empirically proven) in having a damn TV.

Just sayin’, the evidence isn’t in your favor, you may want to get that TekPub Video Subscription and just forgo eating for a while or something.

Comment on Taking half by Adron

Adron — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:38:33 +0000

Thus the problem with simple analogies. They’re bullshit. But then of course, you just proved the cartoon’s point further. There isn’t enough to go around, if you take half for disabled kids, half for sidewalks, and half for the kids in the bad neighborhood you have 1.5% more demand than you have supply for.

You’ll have to wait until more kids show up and take their candy too. Maybe start a Halloween War for Candy and then you can just reduce the price and take more candy from the kids since they’ll show up with more.

…meh, either way, Republican John or Democrat You, somebody gets screwed.