amanaplanablog

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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   Quora is just plain strange. I used to use a sock puppet account on Quora to answer questions and "promote" my personal business (I know, not a great strategy but it worked quite well). One day I decided to create a Quora account
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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   If you think the timing was bad, try the second chance pool and repost it: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   Go / HTML / CSS / Vanilla JS / Postgres
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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   I've always had a ploy I used to avoid this to a degree. When joining a company you have to fill out "prior inventions". I generally list a number of names and general vague descriptions. The catch is, none of them exist they
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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   Seems a bit overly simplistic and not realistic. Most real life data wouldn't be ASCII based. I deal with a lot of large CSVs and do a lot of processing (multi-terabyte CSVs). Null bytes, invalid unicode, all kinds of issues are very c
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   by amanaplanablog 5y ago

   Don't think of them as "beta testers". They are users. Slapping beta in front makes it sound like you lack any confidence in what you're doing. 1:1 outreach is great advice. Think of it as finding users, hopefully users
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   Ask HN: Why Blog as a Developer?

   5 points by amanaplanablog 5y ago|3 comments