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ddgflorida

116 karma · joined December 3, 2015

Creator of convertcsv.com, convertjson.com, prepayloan.com and a few others. Reach me at ddgflorida@gmail.com
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ddgflorida··on How do you move around in vim?
I got used to using jkhl when I starting using vi back in the 80s, so I still use it. Don't forgot about w to jump between words, and several other single key shortcuts.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What made you decide to marry your spouse?
Right time? When you both love each other, when you both want to be married, and when you both are committed to staying married.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: DB Fiddle – An SQL Fiddle Alternative
I like it though it's confusing to enter SQL because your cursor has to be exactly on the first line and if not, it's not clear why your typing doesn't appear.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how do I make my site known?
By mentioning your site in your question you just got a huge jump in traffic.
ddgflorida··on Things Every Hacker Once Knew
Back in 1985 I wrote a HP PCL to HPGL translator in C. Fun stuff!
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
C for text processing, shell scripts for web scraping (wget, lynx, sed, ...). The elegant design of Unix tools still amaze me. I may do a little Classic ASP too.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
Right - The site has been running over 3 years now. There wasn't much competition at first but in the last year I've had real competition plus a bunch of copycats, some who actually copied my code and changed the front-end.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
No marketing, all traffic came from search engines. I focused on SEO from the start and that helped with the rankings. I also made sure my site was more functional than the competition. 100% client-side code.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
I created http://convertcsv.com and make about $750 a month off google ads. I also have one affiliate link but it isn't producing much. I spend a few hours a week answering emails, and another 2-10 hours a month working on enhancements. As a developer I work with data a lot, and noticed the lack of tools for converting delimited data - so I created my own tools online.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Do I need to inform visitors about LocalStorage?
My sites use local storage and I inform the user - consider the possibility someone is using a public computer and you've stored locally what they though was private.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
I'd be willing to sell tournamentmaps.com - displays tennis tournament information on a google map. I created this when my kids played but they are older now. Data is scraped yearly from the source and map links to source web site. PHP/MySql
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Typical work hours
Mine is 8 to 5 with one hour lunch break. That is the minimal expected. I hear about other developers regularly working 10-12 hour days though.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Open database of American doctors
The search results should be sorted by something - let the user choose the sort criteria but default to name.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. What should I chose?
Choose C because of the huge amount of source code still out there, plus coding that close to the machine will help you be a better programmer.
ddgflorida··on What was your best passive income in 2015?
No I don't know which ads are being clicked on, but I trust Google to make the best decision of which ads to display.
ddgflorida··on What was your best passive income in 2015?
Most comments on the site are thanking me for the site or asking for specific enhancements. So support time consists of reading comments/emails and adding enhancements and/or an occasional bug fix.
ddgflorida··on What was your best passive income in 2015?
http://convertcsv.com - In 2015, I averaged $650/month by using google ads.The site converts delimited (CSV,TSV,...) data to and from different formats (JSON,SQL,HTML,..). It was written in HTML/Javascript and I average about 4 hours a month supporting it.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
I've never advertised, but number one google search ranking for most keywords associated with CSV helps tremendously.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
ConvertCsv.com (http://convertcsv.com) brings me in $600-$800 a month just on google ads and one recent affiliate link. The site converts delimited data into different formats. Written completely in HTML and JavaScript. It's been out there for several years and has steadily increased in traffic.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Database Design Templates (or Best Practice Examples)
Have a look at this one: http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/
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