Remember the strop
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Remember the strop
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Re: Remember the strop
#2Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting.
This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
Re: Remember the strop
#3Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
Point that he's trying to make is that you can still make money the traditional way by charging customers for wood figures as 37s does, instead of going down the more common path nowadays of etching adverts into them
Re: Remember the strop
#4Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
Point that he's trying to make is that you can still make money the traditional way by charging customers for wood figures as 37s does, instead of going down the more common path nowadays of etching adverts into them
But in the 37signals style, the wood carvings only contain about 4 cuts maximum. Anything more and it's overly fussy feature creep.
Re: Remember the strop
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Point that he's trying to make is that you can still make money the traditional way by charging customers for wood figures as 37s does, instead of going down the more common path nowadays of etching adverts into them
But in the 37signals style, the wood carvings only contain about 4 cuts maximum. Anything more and it's overly fussy feature creep.
And they don't scale... (badum pshh)
Re: Remember the strop
#6Reminds me of something I'd see on Oprah.
I'm sure it's useful to some people, but this kind of advice -- for want of a better word -- just doesn't do anything for me.
Perhaps I am too old and jaded.
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#7Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
> Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting.
As a pretty hands on person (I do woodcarving, woodturning, and am taking blacksmithing lessons right now), I actually enjoy these sorts of digressions / riffs.
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#837signals = landmark forum?
Re: Remember the strop
#9Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
Reminds me of the joke about the two women eating in a restaurant where the one complains about how terrible the food is there, and the other agrees and says, and what little portions.
Don't talk bad about about people whom's hobbies you know.
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#10Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
Are the only good articles that ones where we learn about a new shell command or where frameworks are debated?