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Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by some_furry »

I write about cryptography on my furry blog. I work in cryptography. You'd think I have a funny story to accompany the juxtaposition of these facts, but no.

Unlike many other HN users in this thread, I've never directly benefited from my blog. But I have used my blog to help other people (many of them furries) get into the tech industry. So I'd argue that counts for something.

(I wrote a series called Furward Momentum if you're curious how.)

The main reason why I don't benefit from my blog is because I don't want to. I write for my own amusement, because I enjoy writing.

I occasionally have to turn down the bold recruiter, and frequently get harassed by people looking to pay for a product endorsement or "guest post". (I've asked them for writing samples "in my style" and rejected them for not putting enough furries in it, but that joke loses novelty fast.)

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by xrd »

vjeux wrote: post #311

I wrote an article on writing JavaScript in C++ using macros, which was featured on Hacker News and got a VP of Engineering at Facebook to reach out and get me in the interview pipeline as I was still in school. I moved halfway across the world from France to work there and still work there today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478751

Then I wrote an article about your talk at OSCON (published on The New Stack).

https://thenewstack.io/javascripts-history-and-how-it-led-to...

You discussed how the diff algorithm improved from O(n^3) to O(n). I'll never forget that talk.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by jasoneckert »

Since 1998, my personal blog (which lists my email and other contact information) has introduced me to countless people over the past 25 years, and led to hundreds of valuable opportunities and collaborations, as well as advanced my career and augmented my personal growth.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by xrd »

xrd wrote: post #332
vjeux wrote: post #311

I wrote an article on writing JavaScript in C++ using macros, which was featured on Hacker News and got a VP of Engineering at Facebook to reach out and get me in the interview pipeline as I was still in school. I moved halfway across the world from France to work there and still work there today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478751

Then I wrote an article about your talk at OSCON (published on The New Stack). https://thenewstack.io/javascripts-history-and-how-it-led-to... You discussed how the diff algorithm improved from O(n^3) to O(n). I'll never forget that talk.

It's interesting that we are both Christopher, and that we both eschew usernames starting with c. That's how I recalled who you were in your comment.

I went with x because Xmas. And because Christopher is such a common name I wanted something different.

I wonder why you went with v, another uncommon letter.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by cstrahan »

lrhegeba wrote: post #330
airstrike wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time I heard it in English! Your comment made me want to dig deeper... It looks like it comes from the Latin "spelunca", meaning "cave" Curiously, in Portuguese we have "espelunca" which is more commonly used as a synonym for a seedy, shady place -- and now I know why!

in german "Spelunke" is used for a seedy, shady bar

And another fun bit of trivia: in the animated series “The Seven Deadly Sins”, one of the characters owns and operates a somewhat suspicious bar in a remote mountain cave.

Seems there may be a cross-culture notion of caves and sketchy bars having similar level of… ah, “shadiness”. Makes some sense, as I’m typing this out. The dark is where (both literally and figuratively) shady things go down, and it’s hard to get much darker than a cave, so “Spelunke” seems a fitting name.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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Post by EvanAnderson »

turrican wrote: post #299
EvanAnderson wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Over-the-Rhine?

Is this also a thing in Cinci?

Yep. Lots of underground brewery-related stuff. And an abandoned never-finished subway (now hosting a massive water main and a ton of fiber cables).
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