Ovid

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by Ovid 12y ago
The books aren't about Perl; they're gaming the Amazon system. That being said, it was interesting when you commented about sales rank. Yeah, they sell more than I do, but you can frequently buy the for $0.99, when my sells for a
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by Ovid 12y ago
This is correct. I was doing well in my career before the book, but it really took off after the book. However, I was already co-author of one book before that, and I blog prolifically, so that skews this. The way it works is simple. Publis
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by Ovid 12y ago
2000 advance copies? Holy shit! I have the wrong publisher! (To be fair, they were awesome with me and I had a blast, but damn, 2000 advance copies?) What's the topic of the book?
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by Ovid 12y ago
That's an interesting thought. I'm pretty sure I could write up a nice grammar to chunk out "interesting" reviews of books. Instead of whining about my book getting buried by fake reviews, maybe I should chuck it and cac
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Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book(blogs.perl.org)
322 points by Ovid 12y ago|117 comments
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Perl 6 for Mere Mortals – FOSDEM Video(youtube.com)
4 points by Ovid 12y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 12y ago
I'm a consultant, produce plenty of value, have very happy customers, and I don't get called a "dick" too often. Don't pay all of us with the same brush, please :) (Note: I'm the guy who wrote the post OP lin
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by Ovid 12y ago
tl;dr
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by Ovid 12y ago
Damn. That's what I get for writing that late at night with a glass of wine in my hand. Plus, I haven't done COBOL for 15 years :)
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Stop putting AUTO_INCREMENT ids in URLs(blogs.perl.org)
12 points by Ovid 12y ago|10 comments
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Why More High-Tech Companies Are Doing Without Managers [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Ovid 12y ago|0 comments
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Going Agile Can Hurt Your Company(linkedin.com)
3 points by Ovid 12y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 12y ago
I don't understand your question. At OSCON, there was only a single Ruby presentation this year. Given that Perl, Python, and PHP all had multiple presentations, it seems curious.
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This year's OSCON conference only had a single Ruby presentation(oscon.com)
1 points by Ovid 12y ago|4 comments
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by Ovid 12y ago
A fairly vacuous article, but here's the takeaway: > The company is taking losses to invest in the future, and Amazon’s 10 percent stock drop today shows that some investors are uncomfortable with that. While its tough to be sure ex
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Why Atom Won't Replace Vim(medium.com)
3 points by Ovid 12y ago|3 comments
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How to write a Perl app on Red Hat's OpenShift cloud platform(allaroundtheworld.fr)
3 points by Ovid 12y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 13y ago
As a guess, I would suspect that the researchers who set up the experiment are more careful about their analysis than NPR is with its reporting. NPR needs to popularize its information, thus ensuring that we, the casual reader, can get a gr
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by Ovid 13y ago
Hey, thanks for being so friendly! :) And recruiters have been here for a while. Seriously, though, check my post history. I'm more than just a recruiter — I'm a serious dev and I'm willing to bet I've released more open
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by Ovid 13y ago
Search scientist. Amsterdam. Relocation and Visa provided. And I mean real search scientist, not just someone who put together Solr that one time. We have a client who has a fantastic position which has opened up. They’re searching for yo
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by Ovid 13y ago
This was for a game I was creating, but haven't had time to finish. However, I've seen enough people search for this and seen so many ugly implementations that I thought I would show my ugly implementation. I'm mostly a back
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Show HN: 3D rotating star map in JavaScript(ovid.github.io)
4 points by Ovid 13y ago|1 comments
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The Zen of Application Test Suites(github.com)
6 points by Ovid 13y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 13y ago
"I agree that you’re probably reading into this too much. But that’s okay—by posting it up to HN, you were able to get a larger sampling of devs to run it past!" That's certainly true :)
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by Ovid 13y ago
I ran this past a few other devs first and there was general agreement that FusionCharts was mocking open source. They're using the same language used in the late 90s/early 00s to dismiss open source. Edit: removed unnecessary pol
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FusionCharts mocks open source but uses it extensively(blog.overseas-exile.com)
22 points by Ovid 13y ago|14 comments
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PNG Image Metadata Found Leveraging iFrame Injections(threatpost.com)
39 points by Ovid 13y ago|24 comments
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The SOC Agile Development Process (e.g., "Shut Up and Write Some Code")(blogs.perl.org)
1 points by Ovid 13y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 13y ago
Yeah, I'm the author of that post and I elected not to change the link after I changed the title. I love the irony of me originally making a date math error in the title when the bug was about date math :)
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by Ovid 13y ago
Completely agreed. This is one of the main points I made in the original reply ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547517 ).

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