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Denis Papathanasiou
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Denis Papathanasiou's personal blog at denis.papathanasiou.org covers startups, business and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “How to Win a Nobel Prize”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Denis Papathanasiou's blog for personal reflections on entrepreneurship, such as his humorous "100 Rules for Being a Successful Entrepreneur" post, which one commenter defended as sharing experience from the time.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal web site of Denis Papathanasiou
Most-linked posts?
- How to Win a Nobel Prize2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-01
What Hacker News says?
I think of mine primarily as "notes to myself", for things I'm likely to want to read again in the future. E.g. what to do if apt-get upgrade fubars lilo ( http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=295 ), or how to setup mercurial on shared hosting ( http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=82 ), etc. They're much easier to find again on the blog, versus in some random config or readme file, lost in my myriad archive folders. Also…
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on “You should blog even if you have no readers”Submitted State Machines in Go as a story · 56 points
HN discussionNice, I should update my old blog post about this: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2010/08/24/spam-apalooza-a-su...
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on “Comment spam random text template”Submitted DSL processing in Scala as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI borrowed the book after hearing Ben mention it at a talk at Columbia, and I posted the 100 point worksheet here: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/posts/2014.05.27.post.html
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on “Foreword to “High-Output Management”, Second Edition”Submitted PiScan: An Open-Source Version of the Amazon Dash Button Using a Raspberry Pi as a story · 37 points
HN discussionI've written about how to use callbacks in this context: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=704
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on “Nodejs and MongoDB, A Beginner's Approach”Submitted Hacking Business Reply Mail as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI'm working on an FAQ/Help page which will show some of those features in more detail. The algorithm I use is a variation of the code described here: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=343 except the output is html, not text, so that I can take account things like font sizes and paragraph breaks. If you signup and try it (it's free for the first 3 days), you'll see that the parser renders each pdf page as text, and i…
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on “Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader”Submitted Blacklisted as Malware: a Downside of using Amazon EC2 as a story · 36 points
HN discussion" To my knowledge, a good PDF->epub converter has not yet been built. Any takers? " Check out eBookBurn.com, which is a site I launched last month ( http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=468 ). It lets you upload pdfs and attempts to parse them into editable text. The pdf parsing is based on my experiments with pdf-miner ( http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=343 ), and while still imperfect (in general parsing pdfs is a d…
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on “Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader”Submitted "Ruled Ineligible": My Experience with NYC BigApps as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI created a wikipedia-style language learning site[1] starting with Japanese and English. It was inspired by a trip to Japan last year[2] after having been away for a while and seeing how badly my reading comprehension had deteriorated. [1] http://www.macaronics.com/ [2] http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2012/06/10/yokaben-read-write...
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on “Ask HN: Share your projects and the stories behind them”Submitted A practical guide to selling ebooks online as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt helps if you can donate some of your time to an open source project that's complementary or related to what your company does. For example, I volunteered to write the tutorial for Sigil ( http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/BasicTutorial ) because it's a great alternative to the closed, expensive InDesign product ( http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/ ). Tutorials or presentations are also good. I created a ba…
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on “Ask HN: How do you advertise without spending money?”Submitted The Forgotten E-Book Reader: OLPC as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCheck out WidgetPay ( https://widgetpay.me/ ), which is built on top of the Stripe API ( https://stripe.com/ ), and run by my startup. I've compared using it vs PayPal on my blog: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=572 If you're comfortable with coding, though, you should just go to Stripe directly.
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on “Tell HN: We just got screwed by PayPal”Submitted Open Sesame Pi: DIY Raspberry Pi Door Monitor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAd-hoc testers using Windows Vista have a couple of obstacles to overcome. Not only the default unzip problem the post mentions (I've found it's just simpler to give the Vista testers an ipa file instead), but also removing the provisioning profile from iTunes usually involves going into the local filesystem and removing the .mobileprovision files manually: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=139
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on “The Pains of iPhone Ad Hoc Beta Testing”Submitted Go Concurrency versus C and pthreads as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDude, it's written to be humorous and he's sharing the experience of the time. Aside, I enjoyed this blog post of yours, good reminder. http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=438
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on “The 100 Rules for Being a Successful Entrepreneur”Submitted E-Books: The Not So New Thing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere are some clickable links. The site: http://bookhunch.com/ My blog post about its history: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=620 The Digital Reader preview article: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/08/30/new-crowd-sourc...
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on “Show HN: authors, here's a new idea for promoting your book”Submitted A Freemium Model That Works as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun with D3 and Web Visualizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to extract just the text from html page articles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go (#golang) and MongoDB using mgo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plato and Diogenes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Products Evolve (or, you say Pivot, I say Mutation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Illustrated ebooks with epub: using the svg image element as a story · 2 points
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