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joeblau

3,944karma·1,828submissions·January 11, 2012
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We used this in 2011 at the startup I worked for. 20 positive and 20 negative words was good enough to sell Twitter "sentiment analysis" to companies like Apple, Bentley, etc...
4mo ago·view thread
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I’m just here for the confirmation bias, but seriously as others have noted this study was funded by an organization that benefits from this headline being true.
4y ago·view thread
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Is there a non-Facebook link to this please?
4y ago·view thread
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I've been an iOS developer since 2009 and after reading this, it felt like Prime Day; A bunch of stuff, but nothing I wanted.
5y ago·view thread
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Just a side note. I’m actually working on building a remote team and when I went to your profile, the link in there was dead. How do people casually browsing your profile discover what you’ve worked o…
5y ago·view thread
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You're a true 10x developer.
5y ago·view thread
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I sold the site to Toptal 2 years ago, but trust me I had donate buttons, crypto donate buttons, I messaged multiple big tech firms that used my project to ask for sponsorships, I ran ads using carbon…
5y ago·view thread
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I’ve seen few OSS burn out posts lately. I created gitignore.io and I’m thankful it wasn’t that successful because even the 5 hours a month I put in didn’t yield much financial compensation. There sho…
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Look at this batch of function handlers[1]. Why does it have functions named "Deal Hand" "Fold" "Call" "Leave Table" etc... ? This thing was clearly a poker gam…
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Go to the git repo on GitHub, check out the code, go to the first commit, and see how many times the word “Poker” is in the code base. Bitcoin was simply designed to be an in game currency for a poker…
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I don’t know why but just seeing this title made spontaneously start laughing.
5y ago·view thread
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Op here. Our goal is to build the product hunt for Crypto. Our platform helps small cap tokens gain visibility both inside and outside of the crypto community. Would love any feedback at tokenlaunch@g…
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Random diamond story! As a freshman in college, I took a geology class and our teacher asked all of the women in our class to raise their hand if they would rather have natural or human-made diamonds.…
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On iOS, none of that is even possible with physical access. Nothing that you’re saying sounds hard for a malicious actor to pull off. The interesting thing is that you’re getting is a historical log w…
5y ago·view thread
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I want this built into notion.
5y ago·view thread
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Signal is almost like anti-virus software against Cellebrite.
5y ago·view thread
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I, thankfully, ran into this problem when I was 28 and I'll just let you know my journey. The thing that I realized about my career is that the _people_ I was working with where "dead end pe…
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You may be losing some conversions on your figma page because of a typo in the url to your site which includes a period after your .app TLD.
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