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Re:How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-wee... by seiji on Monday November 19, 2012 @01:13PM (#4805589)
Nobody wants a nobody. Have you tried manipulating the HN audience into thinking you're special? I can, annoyingly, name a dozen people from here who self-promote and pop up with frustrating frequency. After a while you start to think they're special even when they're just persistent. But few people are persistent with such follow through.

Write stuff people want. Get it distributed widely. Repeat.

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Re:How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-wee... by intellegacy on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:35PM (#4806667)
No, dear god. We need less self-promoting manipulators here and more substantive, authentic posters.
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Re:How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-wee... by ahoyhere on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:42PM (#4806694)
It's sad that you think "writing stuff people want" is manipulative and faux.
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Re:How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-wee... by okok on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:03AM (#4808295)
Well writing it for the sake of promoting yourself most definitely is.
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Re:How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-wee... by ahoyhere on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @12:22PM (#4810025)
"Most definitely"? Why?
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