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Re: Don’t mess with my Toot Toot

Matt Kern — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:29:33 -0000

Good post and a good song reference to match. You don't find that very often.

I will check out the plugin. Looks very interesting, thanks.

Matt

Re: Wikinomics at work | Derek Sivers

Matt Kern — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:31:26 -0000

I think the Long Tail is a fascinating topic and I am amazed at guys like you that figured it out/stumbled across it so many years ago and figured out how to make it work. I am giving it a shot now so wish me luck.

btw Derek - gotta get that RSS link up.

Thanks

Matt Kern
http://cdbaby.com/cd/professorjohn

Re: the public you is not you | Derek Sivers

Matt Kern — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:16:11 -0000

I saw your post made it to the front page of Digg and I checked it out on O'Reilly.

I was going to comment and defend you to some degree but I figured you were a big boy and didn't need my help.

It was quite funny seeing all those hard-core programmer guys taking their best shot. I especially liked the guy who said CDBaby would not be good for your resume.

I think I am like you where I enjoy programming a lot (picked it up later in life) but we know it is a means to an end and not the end itself.

The end result for guys like us is actually making something and creating something out of nothing. The same as with music.

For a hard core programmer - the end result is not nearly as important as the actual coding! That is their box and that is how they view the world.

Similar to when these same programmers rant how facebook is all procedural code! Oh My God! It's the end of days!

Personally, I will take procedural code that Microsoft is willing to pony up $400 million for over some fully optimized OOP site that no one cares about.

The big picture stuff is more fun anyways.

Keep On Bootstrapping!

Matt Kern