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Or http://www.jetable.org/en/index
or http://mailinator.com
while we are at it here is the one I used to download (didn't open the comments first) http://guerrillamail.com
Getting Real book is now free PDF
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Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF
#72You know you've created a following of customers that love you when you upload a PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet and it hits the top of Hacker News.
PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet I strongly suggest that everyone write down this sentence-fragment and analyze it carefully, because it describes the borked way many people perceive value for things and you should specifically avoid framing things you write for your business such that they align with this value system . For example, for a similar offer, I might have gone with mic…
I usually pay attention to your comments because it is you, patio11. This time I hadn't read the fact that it was you and yet I found the comment useful and it prompted me to see you wrote it.
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#75You know you've created a following of customers that love you when you upload a PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet and it hits the top of Hacker News.
PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet I strongly suggest that everyone write down this sentence-fragment and analyze it carefully, because it describes the borked way many people perceive value for things and you should specifically avoid framing things you write for your business such that they align with this value system . For example, for a similar offer, I might have gone with mic…
Great advice, as always.
Listen to this man!
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What always surprised me: Amazon sells a (pretty nice) Kindle version, but all you get from 37Signals is this lame PDF. (Maybe they want you to print it on really large paper and use it as your office wallpaper? That's a completely different strategy…)
Perhaps they don't own the rights to redistribute the Kindle version? Anyhow, I would have preferred a simple text file. I don't see what PDF gives me except extra work to convert it to something else. Which is probably why, most likely, I'm not even going to read the thing.
You won't read their free book that you would have otherwise liked to have read because they don't distribute it in your preferred format but instead in 2 very ubiquitous formats that are easily converted? Really? This is not a personal attack but it is a criticism and I think it applies to a lot of people, really.
There seems to be this really weird trend where people seem to think they're entitled to free stuff when and how they want it. They don't quite come out and demand it but the subtext is clear as day. Your comment and much of the others exemplify this. You basically just said "I'm not reading it because it doesn't come in my preferred format" which isn't far from "they should release it in the format I desire". (it's not what you say but how you say it). Then there's that direct download link and the complaints about giving an email to get a PDF. That's entitlement. It seems the beggars believe they can also be choosers. Someone is giving something at no cost but people still feel they should be able to circumvent simply giving an email which they can unsubscribe from later quite easily. Imagine if 37Signals set up a booth on a public street corner and gave away hard copies of their book and then people went around saying "I shouldn't have to walk to the booth and say hi to Jason and DHH, they should just ship it to me". Its really not that big of a stretch!
I happen to notice a lot of this and it really gets to me.
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#78For something that implies on the cover that it is going to get real about build wep apps, there's very little actual building of web apps in there.
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Hmm, a PDF isn't much better than HTML, they should provide some ebook format—how should one read this thing conveniently on his smartphone?
Surely your "smartphone" can read a PDF?
Constant zooming and panning for every page turn and no ability to alter the font, size or color. Sure, smartphones can render PDFs just fine, but reading long PDFs on small screens is just a miserable experience inherit to the format.
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#80This is wonderful. One of the best reality checks for a developer/entrepreneur. Not to be a dick, but I would appreciate a mobi version of it.
If you have a Kindle with WiFi, you can send the PDF to your personalized Kindle email address with word 'Convert' in the subject and it will convert the PDF to the appropriate format for your Kindle. It works beautifully.
I just did this for the book, the automatic Kindle conversion handled this particular book pretty poorly. Randomly long spacing between words or spaces removed and alignments destroyed in some spots. Not unreadable but it obviously looks like a conversion.
It's still better than reading a PDF on an e-ink Kindle or phone sized screen, it's just a bit messier. Sometimes the Kindle conversion works superb though, it's just a crapshoot.