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Re: Pwned, the book

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Post by shortlived » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

movedx wrote: post #22

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He's a bit of muppet, to be honest. He lives in a city near mine which, frankly, breeds this sort of self-absorbed, narcissistic person. I remember having a conversation with him on Twitter once, and his comments were quite offensive. Very general, sweeping opinions about British people (I'm British/Australian.) Mostly made him self look like a boob, but he's not the kind of person to self-reflect and recognise that.…

> Very general, sweeping opinions about British people

But you just made a sweeping generalization! "He lives in a city near mine which, frankly, breeds this sort of self-absorbed, narcissistic person"

Re: Pwned, the book

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Post by autoexec » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

Jamie9912 wrote: post #12

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Could he be more carbon neutral in releasing a book, than making it ebook-only, which he seems to have done here?

Look at his Twitter, he owns cars, boats, a multi-storey house on the Gold Coast without any solar panels

That's a ridiculous thing to worry about. Individuals, even the ones with boats and houses, aren't what's driving climate change. All the time and effort you spend playing "Solar Panel Police" would be much better spent attacking the environmental harms caused by industry. Could this guy afford some solar panels? Probably, and sure every little bit 'helps', but it seems so petty to bitch about this one guy when there are so many others causing problems that are so much more impactful.

Re: Pwned, the book

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Post by movedx » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 8:38 PM UTC

shortlived wrote: post #51

movedx wrote: post #22

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He's a bit of muppet, to be honest. He lives in a city near mine which, frankly, breeds this sort of self-absorbed, narcissistic person. I remember having a conversation with him on Twitter once, and his comments were quite offensive. Very general, sweeping opinions about British people (I'm British/Australian.) Mostly made him self look like a boob, but he's not the kind of person to self-reflect and recognise that.…

> Very general, sweeping opinions about British people But you just made a sweeping generalization! "He lives in a city near mine which, frankly, breeds this sort of self-absorbed, narcissistic person"

That's a fair point.

Re: Pwned, the book

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Post by dang » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 11:53 PM UTC

ttrrooppeerr wrote: post #3

He really is full of himself, isn't he?

Please don't post personal attacks.

Maybe you don't owe authors better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Pwned, the book

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Post by Sinidir » Fri, Sep 09, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

AviationAtom wrote: post #26

daveoc64 wrote: post #7

As soon as I saw Troy's post about this in my news feed, I thought I'd buy it immediately, but $39 is a lot for this sort of thing. I've bought similar books from tech bloggers and they've been closer to $15.

I would agree that $39 is steep, and would likely encourage piracy of it. His story sounds interesting, but not $39 interesting.

What a mindblowing attitude for a book whos contents are already freely available as blogposts. Shame.