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Re:Ask HN: Professional Hacker's Web Presence? by angusgr on Sunday October 24, 2010 @10:50PM (#1828255)
Also worth noting that this process of "Google stalking" me only works because I have a relatively unique name.

Doing it by email address might work, although most people make an effort to keep their email addresses away from automated harvesting. :).

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Re:Ask HN: Professional Hacker's Web Presence? by techbio on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:50AM (#1829276)
With Erlang, I think you could be identified easily. At some level of detail everyone is, and if I needed an experienced Erlang programmer, I would probably know where to look.

But how about with PHP or C instead?

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Re:Ask HN: Professional Hacker's Web Presence? by techbio on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:49AM (#1829274)
With Erlang, I think you could be identified easily. At some level of detail everyone is, and if I needed an experienced Erlang programmer, I would probably know where to look.

But how about with PHP instead?

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Re:Ask HN: Professional Hacker's Web Presence? by techbio on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:15PM (#1828319)
I just googled the name of your website. I hope you don't actually think that is stalking.
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Re:Ask HN: Professional Hacker's Web Presence? by angusgr on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:30PM (#1828379)
Of course not.

I put it in air quotes because I couldn't think of a better word for "using google repeatedly to find out everything you can about someone" (referring to the process that I described, ie more involved than simply googling me.)

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