ZanderEarth32

I still never understood how having cable or a tv complicates people's lives. Besides the inconvenience on the day it was installed, it has essentially been no hassle. The money comes out every month, I schedule some shows I like and watch them when I can and that's it.

All the purging and living with no items type of lifestyle is nice for me to think about but I have hobbies that require stuff like rock climbing, backpacking, play guitar, etc. so I can't really just live in an empty room.

Instead of trying not have stuff in general, I try to not have things I don't need or want.

It does if the majority of your buyers are on that one platform.

I'd really like to give this a shot but am only interested in trying it on my iPad which can't get iOS6, so unfortunately, rather than passing on this, I am being left behind.

There are plenty of reasons Facebook sucks, but you didn't hit on any of them. The one thing Facebook does well is allow people to share stuff and produce some value to those who receive it.

Damn, didn't realize that. But to be honest, it won't change my habits. I enjoy reading comics, not the actual comics themselves. I don't "collect" them, I just buy and read them, and will probably never reread a book.

That is something that concerns me as well. I don't know what Comixology's DRM technologies are, or if they even have any. I haven't looked, but it would be nice to know that I can export those books that I have paid for to another DRM free format, like PDF.

Your point of out of print books is very true, and for another reason. Unless I can hunt down a 50th printing of the first appearance of Spider Man or the first Captain America, odds are I would never get to read them. Having a digital copy for $1.99 and seconds away is a very comforting thought.

The other upside of having all you comics in the cloud and accessible by one device is that you don't end up with 50 long boxes of comics that you have to store.

I do still buy some comics in print, those that I find truly beautiful, or when I find one in a comic book store that I want to support. And it is important to note that Comixology doesn't have every comic book ever, there is still a huge percentage of books that haven't made there way to the digital space.

I used to read comics as a kid on and off, but stopped at some point. I then got an iPad and learned about Comixology and figured I'd pick up an issue or two from my childhood. Well, a couple of hundred digital comics later I am fully committed to reading comics again, almost 100% digital.

Comixology's app makes the buying and reading process so easy and enjoyable, that I thoroughly look forward to Wednesday's new releases. Their "Pull List" companion app and website are great too. I can create my pull list for the week and have it emailed to myself.

One thing I really like about Comixology's ethics is they aren't trying to kill the traditional comic book store. Their app has a feature to locate the nearest comic book store to your location, and has helped me find a bunch of stores I didn't know existed, which have earned my money. They even have a program where your comic book store can set up a Comixology store front and sell comics through that platform and make some money.

On a side note, Dark Horse opted (from what I understand) to use their proprietary app for their comics and my experience there has been completely different. The app runs extremely slow, and crashes often. I bought a couple of Usagi Yojimbo book, read them and deleted the app. The experience was too clunky to deal with.

I see these types of people as well, and this is probably true for most people. I guess I just don't need goals when it comes to fitness to stay motivated or make progress.

I am not familiar with Fitocracy but it seems to be getting much love here. Part of my dislike for tracking and measuring fitness might come from my experience with cumbersome apps that make the process a pain. I used Fitness Buddy for a period, and found it way to complicated and in-depth to make tracking how much weight I lifted and the reps quickly between exercises. I'll give Fitocracy a shot, and see if I change my mind.

As a side note, I do like tracking how much I walk, but not for debugging, but for motivation. I'd like to hit a 100 miles before the end of the year just by walking at lunch, but for no other reason that personal pride I guess.

Good post, but I think there is too much emphasis in general on tracking and logging workouts.

I find the whole tracking and logging weights, reps and feelings while working out to be daunting and pointless. Maybe it's because I am not a "I'm going to start working out and dieting" type person, rather I just live a healthy lifestyle by design. I don't "diet", I just try to eat healthy in general. I don't have a "work out routine", I just try to be physical every day. It makes the whole exercise process more a part of my natural life, rather than something I have to schedule.

I enjoy going to the gym and getting a good workout, doing whatever I feel like at the moment. The important part to me is working up a sweat and getting my heart pumping, not how many reps with a certain weight I did. I can see if you have a goal of weight loss or increasing your strength to a certain level that can be measured by numbers, but if you are aiming for general health, why do you need to keep a detailed log? Just try to exercise everyday, regardless of what that includes.

If you do keep a detailed log of your workouts, what kind of actionable data does that information provide you? Do you refer back to it daily, weekly, monthly and try to optimize your workouts based on your previous history? If so, how?

Glad to hear it!

Right, that isn't what I got from the title though.

"Mormonism (as recently said in Sam Harris' last post) is as crazy a religion as you get;"

Come on, what religion isn't crazy in reality? Grading each religion on their value based on their "crazy factor" shows most of the world's religions would get a failing grade.

Right, the headline is misleading, at least to me. Sleeping on someone's couch usually means said sleeper is having a rough time and needs a roof over their head. I assumed this story was about an investor who turned Joel down, then hit a rough patch and ended up needing to sleep on Joel's couch out of the necessity of shelter.

Still, a good story.

But having a user register for an account isn't inherently a problem with the website, not like a error, missing page or broken feature. It is merely a step in the purchase process that needs to be optimized. I wouldn't assume that the requirement to register for an account (which is completely reasonable, although unnecessary)would indicate that there is a problem with a physical product they produce.

Well, having too much liquidity is one of the reasons I know when payday is. If you have direct deposit, do you just let your check sit in your checking account (or where ever it is desposited)? I don't have funds automatically moved to various accounts, I do it by hand because sometimes things come up and funds need to be re-appropriated. That is probably why I know when payday is, I have banking to do!

"It goes like this. The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day. Those who live pay-cheque to pay-cheque always know, and will remind you as well! I once received an email from a colleague who signed off with Happy Payday!. It's a very telling test."

I've got my finances setup pretty well and I still know when payday is and enjoy it very much. No, I don't need the money to get through the next two weeks but it's still fun to receive money. I'd almost argue that if you don't know when payday is, and when money is coming in and out of your account, you don't have your financial shit together.

Besides that, this article doesn't really provide any tips or advice that a generic "save more money" article on MSN would offer. Some examples from the authors personal financial "hacks" would have been helpful.

I am guessing that most people aren't able to work. Just taking a survey from the people around me, no one lives close enough to work to bike. I also live in Orange County and the Los Angeles area so everything is very spread out.

Awesome, thanks for this. I've been learning Django in my spare time and using the Django Book resource, and while I can work through it I don't think it's taught in a way that helped me remember how to do any of it without the book. Is that common? I am assuming that the only way you learn how to set up an environment or a Django project is just through doing it multiple times, not memorizing it out of a book. For example, the next time I start a project, I know I'll have to refer back to how to start the whole process.

I know this looks cool and all but what about including more information below the fold? It wouldn't interrupt the cool design and would give more information to folks like me who don't just sign up for every service for the hell of it.

The lack of information conveys a lack of product, regardless of how true that might be. No screenshots, no information on features, not even a contact or Twitter. I'd really rather get more information before I start getting emails about the service. This is especially true when there are already viable options like PayPal and Stripe, where I can go and find full feature lists.

Wasn't this just an intro email? I occasionally get emails from friends or friends of friends who are looking for marketing advice and while most of the projects don't interest me, I at least send back another email asking a few questions before rejecting them.

Start-ups are the new grad school, which was the new peace core. It's what you do when you don't know what else to do. That in between stage, where you don't have a next step planned but are anxious and need to do something. Back in the day, you'd join the peace core. It was something productive to do, noble and at least you weren't sitting on the couch collecting dust. Then when the peace core wasn't pleasing, people would go to grad school upon graduation from undergrad. You got your shiny new bachelors degree and no path, maybe no opportunities. So, you'd saddle up for grad school because it bought you more time.

Now, all those would be peace core grad students are starting start-ups because it buys you time. They disguise it as 'wanting to change the world' but it's really just buying time until you figure stuff out. This is why there is abundance of shit in the start up world. Too many folks just buying themselves time.

That's true and I could fit all my camping and climbing stuff in my car, but the picture I get from people who tout "all my stuff fits in my car" philosophy is that they live in a room with no furniture, a coffee mug and their laptop. Having less stuff for the sake of having less stuff doesn't seem to really serve a purposes. Keep what you need and want and ditch the rest. Not that complicated.

This works in theory, and in practice for some people, but not everyone. For example, I don't have a lot of 'stuff' but I do have a couple of hobbies that require 'stuff' like rock climbing and backpacking. My girlfriend who lives with me is an avid scrapbooker, which inherently means she will have a lot of stuff.

It's easy to not have 'stuff' if your entire life is online, but once you start to accumulate hobbies that aren't online then not having stuff gets much more difficult.

My goal is to not have stuff that doesn't serve a purpose. Nic-nacks, gifts from trips, decorations, etc.

I'd be interested in hearing about how you used CrowdBooster to build a following. Care to elaborate?

The title says "No SEO". Just saving some people a read if they were expecting an article explaining how he did it with "No SEO".

"I've done almost zero SEO."

"I changed the title tags to match each page's content"

That's SEO

"I submitted a site map to Google Webmaster Tools"

That's SEO

"I added the relevant meta tags."

That's SEO.

Sites like this don't tend to grow with SEO, they grow because of a community and social sharing.

Seems awful that the author seems to really want to support a project he likes, a team he likes and something he feels is worthwhile, but won't because someone else scooped him .5 a day early. Honestly, are people really glued to their RSS feeds taking notice of which publication gets a story out first? I didn't read the other story, I dont even know what site posted it. Swallow the pride and help a company out.

I still don't think the idea of labeling all of primetime TV as bad is reasonable.

TV is a medium for entertainment, and entertainment is subjective. How, when or why you consume it, as long as it isn't hurting anyone, shouldn't be up for judgement.

Maybe, better advice would be, to stop watching tv when it is no longer providing you the benefit you were seeking. Like, turn off the TV when you aren't enjoying watching it anymore and find something else enjoyable to do.