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Dan Goldin
Personal blog · dangoldin.com · on HN as dangoldinstartupsprogrammingwriting
Dan Goldin's personal blog at dangoldin.com covers startups, programming and writing. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 266 times, most often “Fun with Prolog: Priceonomics Puzzle”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Goldin's posts on Prolog for puzzle-style problems, a Java SimpleDateFormat bug around New Year, and adding email attachments in Django. One commenter calls the date post a perennial favorite.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My thoughts and musings. Trying to write about tech, startups and the entrepreneurial journey.
Most-linked posts?
- Fun with Prolog: Priceonomics Puzzle2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-07
- Adding attachments to django-postman2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-17
- Java's SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs. Yyyy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug but I did something similar in 2014 and used PhantomJS to analyze the content of the top 1000 Alexa sites: http://dangoldin.com/2014/03/09/examining-the-requests-made-...
Comment linking /2014/03/09/examining-the-requests-made-by-the-top-100-sites/
on “The web sucks if you have a slow connection”Submitted Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses as a story · 347 points
HN discussionI actually converted my blog ( http://dangoldin.com/ ) a while back to be entirely in AMP. In this way I'm using the framework without caring about the CDN element. After reading this I may just bite the bullet and remove AMP and just cut out a bunch of crap to get it optimized for lower bandwidth devices.
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on “I decided to disable AMP on my site”Submitted Eighteen months of Django as a story · 104 points
HN discussionYea - I was inspired by seeing how well AMP worked on some sites and actually converted my entire blog to use AMP for every page. It's incredibly fast and I'm happy with it although I'm sure I could have achieved most of the results with some highly optimized CSS and HTML: http://dangoldin.com/
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on “The Problem with AMP”Submitted Drowning in JavaScript as a story · 98 points
HN discussionA bit of a plug but I wrote about this a week or so ago describing SQL as the perfect interface. Databases change and evolve but since they all wrap the underlying engine in SQL it becomes very easy to use new technologies under the same interface: http://dangoldin.com/2017/04/11/sql-is-the-perfect-interface...
Comment linking /2017/04/11/sql-is-the-perfect-interface/
on “SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today”Submitted Goodbye Gmail as a story · 82 points
HN discussionAgreed but in this case I took a stab at downloading the buddy list and with a bit of tech know-how it's not terrible: http://dangoldin.com/2017/10/09/downloading-your-aim-buddy-l...
Comment linking /2017/10/09/downloading-your-aim-buddy-list/
on “AIM will be discontinued today”Submitted What the SEO? – The shady world of small business SEO as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSame here. My bear case for Uber is just that self driving will commoditize the market and turn a two sided market into a one sided market. At that point it will be the cheapest offering that wins. Wrote about it in more detail here: http://dangoldin.com/2016/05/28/uber-and-self-driving-cars/
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on “Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering”Submitted Fun with Prolog: Priceonomics Puzzle as a story · 71 points
HN discussionEarlier this year I spent some time moving my blog to AMP and so far I'm pretty happy with the move. It's hosted on GitHub pages and I made the decision to go full AMP (including Desktop so I never went the /amp/ subfolder route) and allowed me to convert every existing page to AMP without having to have a new set of URLs. It's noticeably faster but there are a few hiccups I had to deal with - JS needs to be in isol…
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on “Google’s AMP is a gilded cage”Submitted Why don't cell phones have a dialtone? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionPretty cool. I also did a stint messing around with Prolog and it was pretty awesome discovering an entirely new programming paradigm. I ended up doing the Priceonomics puzzle ( https://priceonomics.com/jobs/puzzle/ ) in Prolog and wrote up about it here - http://dangoldin.com/2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics...
Comment linking /2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics-puzzle/
on “Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog”Submitted In defense of Excel as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI took a quick look at tech companies that went public in the 80s up to today (1) and it's not as simple as Scott makes it out to be. The annualized returns are comparable now to what they were in the "glory days" due to companies like Tesla and Netflix but the massive long term returns are going to be harder/impossible to achieve. Sure we may not have the chance for another Microsoft going public but there's still…
Comment linking /2013/05/24/investing-in-tech-stocks/
on “Unshackle the Middle Class”Submitted Is media consumption zero sum? as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote or NYC Background is in the data science side of things but I've been developing web products for the past two years - namely my two startups: http://getpressi.com/dan and https://makersalley.com/ They're taking a bit longer to pay the bills than I'd hoped (welcome to startups) so I'm looking to pick up a 10-20 hours a week of consulting work. Web: http://dangoldin.com/ GitHub: https://github.c…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)”Submitted SQL is the perfect interface as a story · 24 points
HN discussionYou mean like those problems that prolog is good at solving? Such as those describe here? http://dangoldin.com/2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics...
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on “Clojure.core: Batteries Almost Included”Submitted A Fun Developer Interview Question as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote or NYC. Willing to travel. I'm looking for something around 1-3 days/week since my startup's taking longer to generate revenue than I thought (such is the life). My background is in quantitative development but for the past 18 months I've been developing pretty much full stack using Python/R/Django/Flask/jQuery/MySQL/MongoDB/AWS to build Pressi ( http://getpressi.com/dan ) and Makers Alley ( ht…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)”Submitted Solving Num: A combinatoric math game as a story · 22 points
HN discussionTwo years ago I was wondering why there was such a glut of these cleaning startups. The entire idea of applying the Uber model just didn't make sense - one is a commodity product with no way to bypass the middleman while the other requires letting someone into your home and encourages going off platform. Dug up the old post for those interested - http://dangoldin.com/2013/12/09/why-are-there-so-many-cleani...
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on “Pondering Homejoy’s Failure”Submitted Getting a SIM card in India as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI wrote a similar blog post a while ago advocating this approach. It was inspired by MixPanel sending me a login link alongside a forgot password link - http://dangoldin.com/2014/05/20/logging-in-through-your-inbo...
Comment linking /2014/05/20/logging-in-through-your-inbox/
on “Bye Bye Passwords”Submitted Java's SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs. Yyyy as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere's an AMP workaround I found a few years ago that surprisingly still works. Basically open up the article as an AMP page and then disable the HTTP request to the access module. More context here: http://dangoldin.com/2017/04/16/amp-and-subscription-paywall...
Comment linking /2017/04/16/amp-and-subscription-paywalls/
on “The making of Jim Simons”Submitted Examining the file requests made by the top 100 Alexa sites as a story · 15 points
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