giles_goat_boy

Your logic's terrible.

_this community means nothing to you other than being a great place to advertise._

That conflates a community with a site, and attention-seeking with profit-seeking.

_before long the front page is nothing but posts about balls_

How long is before long? I actually think that would take a while, although I'd certainly be impressed if it happened overnight.

seriously. what a waste of time.

now that's a good idea.

Nobody who is an expert on e-mail marketing would ever wander in here. They'd be too busy driving their Ferrari. I came in here by accident and came away with a prime example of why Hacker Newspaper doesn't link to comment threads. For every one intelligent comment by you, Patrick, there's a hundred by a bunch of people getting into bicker-y little soap operas about who voted for who. I study the Bobs and I can tell you they're all too busy for that shit. :-) I'm a little too busy for it myself.

Anyway, for the record, I will happily get any story on the front page of Hacker News for the right price. I'm not kidding, I've done it before, on purpose. I once set out to teabag Hacker News and get a story about my own balls on the front page. It only took me two attempts. My e-mail is [email protected] and I am more than happy to take your ducats.

Hi all. I rigged Hacker Newspaper to skip any story which contains the word "iPad" (case-insensitive) in the title.

I've got that in effect for now and will remove it after the madness ebbs.

So if you want to read a version of HN with iPad references spam-filtered, here it is: http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

Merry Xmas

srsly

It's not a parody. It's funny, but it's real. This diet saved my life. I mean you could spend a lot of time debating what I really mean, or you could just assume I mean what I say, get the book, improve your nutritional habits, lose tons of weight and live longer. Just consider the possibility that maybe it is that simple. What kind of crazy-ass dipshit would kid around when he was talking about having heart surgery three times by the age of 35?

Anyway, as far as your other question, there are tons of people making money hand over fist in affiliate marketing. I hate to be a dick but if you want to make money in affiliate marketing, you shouldn't just build some random complicated system in the hopes that maybe it might work, you should PAY FOR ADVICE. Just buy a couple ebooks on affiliate marketing and figure out which systems work. Even if you buy a bad book, you learn a little about how to spot bullshit. $35 or $97 on an ebook costs a lot less than several weeks or months of programmer time at a startup. I mean that's just crazy.

if you take my argument to its logical conclusion (and there's no apostrophe in a possessive "its", dammit), then you can't trust anyone without affilate links.

not to protect my rep, to avoid a personal problem I have, which is an overwhelming compulsion to have the last word in every discussion. I can get just about anybody to agree with me if I spend enough time to find out what mistake they made when they misinterpreted my words, and I have a really hard time accepting that people are going to say things about me which are inaccurate or illogical. so I end up wasting a lot of time arguing with people who never bothered to read what I was saying carefully in the first place.

I created this account so I could come on here and correct these comments. I had to create a new account because I threw out my HN password about a week or two ago in hopes of staying out of these kinds of discussions. I don't know which specific incident on Reddit of deleting my comments and/or my account you're referring to, because I've done that many times, but it probably involved wasted time or inadequate explanation on my part and poor logic on the part of several other people.

it's basically a failure of discipline and priority-setting on my part. I'm getting better at it, though.

what I'm not telling you is that Dr. Fuhrman's system involves eating a lot of beans, and beans make you fart; and that eating at restaurants, I don't even bother trying any more, too much oil/salt/etc. also technically that can't cost me money, it can only cost me opportunity. it's nearly impossible to lose money self-publishing a blog.