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Re:Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:12AM (#29553190)

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 with my real name as the founder of my company. I then answered questions will full transparency and full disclosure when mentioning my company/product.

My real account was banned and answers deleted. My sock puppet account still thrives.

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why? on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:36PM (#29503271)

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

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why? on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:14AM (#29494403)

Go / HTML / CSS / Vanilla JS / Postgres

Re:Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs on Sunday December 05, 2021 @10:05AM (#29449791)

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 are simply invented in my head.

When building a side project I use one of the names from my prior inventions list.

Re:Fast CSV Processing with SIMD on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:45AM (#29441113)

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 common in real world data. Not to mention improperly formatted CSVs (not closing quotes, etc).

Re:Ask HN: How do you recruit beta testers for your SaaS? on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:59AM (#29394310)

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 that are not afraid to give you feedback.

Ask HN: Why Blog as a Developer?

Posted by amanaplanablog on Friday November 12, 2021 @07:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

The most repeated answers seem to be:a) To get a (better) job, or some other career benefit. b) To build a brand and/or following. c) To become a better communicator.Are there additional benefits, especially for someone with no need for a career or branding?I feel compelled to collect my creations and thoughts in one place, but can't make a lot of sense of it. I feel it's almost entirely Ego...

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