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Marc-André Cournoyer
Personal blog · macournoyer.com/blog · on HN as macournoyerprogrammingweb
Marc-André Cournoyer's personal blog at macournoyer.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “How to Apply to a Job”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Code, lifting & loops
Most-linked posts?
- How to Apply to a Job4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-07-15
- Working for Me: First Month Report2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-04
- How I Made $6K With My eBook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-01
What Hacker News says?
Some people like to do cutesy things like this: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job...
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on “Why Erlang looks like it does”Submitted How I Made $6K With My eBook as a story · 160 points
HN discussionI must confess I have not seen many. I drew inspiration from Marc-André Cournoyer and his post "how to apply to a job" http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job... . However, I've entertained the idea of writing code as prose for quite some time.
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on “A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in ruby”Submitted How to Make Money Online as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWell, I think that it can be profitable, especially if going EBook only. There is some great advice on it here: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/03/01/promote-cyopl/ But for me, I didn't want to spend a ton of time and effort on marketing, and my topic was a niche within a niche at the time (I wrote the Ruport Book with Mike Milner -- ruportbook.com). After a year or so, instead of being thousands in the black, we w…
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on “Ruby Best Practices (full book available for download)”Submitted Why Geeks Don’t Believe in Copywriting as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI was reading something similar here about creating your own language using LLVM (and also using the Ruby bindings for LLVM as opposed to C++) ... http://macournoyer.com/blog/2008/12/09/orange/
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on “The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language”Submitted Tinyrb: small Ruby VM inspired by Lua that's easy to understand and learn from as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttp://macournoyer.com/instantinstant/ not quite the same thing, but an instant search for instant searches.
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on “ The App Store is slow, so I built App Store Instant”Submitted Leaving my job & starting my own thing as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI was in a similar position about two years ago. And was determined to bootstrap a "lifestyle" business that would provide income with the specific restriction of not doing consulting ever again. I reached my goal in the first month: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2011/05/02/working-for-me/ and now have my own biz http://codedinc.com/ that has been profitable and growing ever since while working very few hours. Some of…
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on “My Journey Starts Here”Submitted The Zero Dollar, 5 Minutes Market Research as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein, here's my executable cover letter in ruby, http://tagaholic.me/resume.html . Running it opens my resume in your browser (on a Mac). Got the idea from http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job...
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on “True hacker resume: CV as Python unit test”Submitted Announcing Dresssed.com: Premium Rails Themes as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snowboarding, Life and The Secret Of Pushing Yourself as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster A/B Testing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Game Basics in (Literate) CoffeeScript as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Your Code Is Executed as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Time as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working for Me: First Month Report as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Io Gives You Super Disco Nuclear Powers with Rubber Handles as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Years Ago and A Quarter Million Dollar Later as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowing where you’re going greatly increase your chances of getting there as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game Basics in Literate CoffeeScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Apply to a Job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking for a new home for RefactorMyCode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey yo Marc, make me a server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dresssed (Rails theme) Survey Results as a story · 1 points
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