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Scott Yang

Personal blog · scott.yang.id.auwebbusiness

Scott Yang's personal blog at scott.yang.id.au covers web and business. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “State of Ad-Blocking on OzBargain”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. State of Ad-Blocking on OzBargain
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'd say Joel Spolsky is somewhat unique in this, although Google has had bias for C++ in the past [1]. Spolsky has long been an advocate for expecting developers to be competent in C [2]. [1] http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/07/my-google-interview.html [2] http://scott.yang.id.au/2008/04/joel-spolsky-and-jeff-atwood...

    Comment linking /2008/04/joel-spolsky-and-jeff-atwood-on-learning-c/

    on “Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc”
  2. Submitted State of Ad-Blocking on OzBargain as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. You need to understand a little history to understand why WordPress is where it is today. The first blog software to get really popular was Movable Type ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type ). MT was basically a set of Perl scripts that provided a nice GUI backend to manage content stored in a database. But the actual public-facing sites it created were all static files. When you hit "Publish," it would scan…

    Comment linking /2004/05/license-changes-with-movable-type-3/

    on “Performance of WordPress Hosting Companies Compared”
  4. Submitted Google AdSense Ready for HTTPS? My Experience Says No as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted State of Ad-Blocking on OzBargain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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