briancl

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by briancl 5y ago
Exposure therapy over years. I don’t think I’m done, so I’d say I’m still at it. But not how you think. I was fortunate to have a major career change thrust upon me.. it was too good of an opportunity to pass up, so I took it. It required
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by briancl 5y ago
I feel the same. My theory is that I’ve learned from my past mistakes of being a shut-in due to social anxiety, which led me to spiral downward when things inevitably went wrong in life. I decided to do something about that: face my anxiety
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by briancl 5y ago
Running a server means installing, configuring, and maintaining an OS and stack of software. Spotify running a server in the background isn’t what Moxie means.
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by briancl 5y ago
I spent a lot of time working on myself, first. For me, that looked like understanding past trauma, and then doing the work: meditation, journaling, fixing diet and exercise, sleeping better, and enhancing existing relationships with friend
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by briancl 5y ago
I find it funny that the comments here split across: “I have no doubt that life emerged from an RNA first world” and “I have no doubt that life emerged from a metabolism first world” Last I checked, nobody should have absolute certainty for
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by briancl 6y ago
I don’t understand why “pre-made sandwiches” are a common occurrence. Occasionally necessary, sure. On an average day, if I don’t have 5-10 minutes to wait for a freshly made sandwich, I’ve gone wrong.
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Ask HN: Recommended books or resources for genuine small businesses
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by briancl 8y ago
My reply is probably too late, but I'll post anyway for people referencing this later. My own journey over the last 20 years has been a slow migration from a technical contributor (About 10-12 years of systems engineering, infosec cons
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by briancl 8y ago
Enterprise software sales has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, largely due to the shift to SaaS and the shifting strategy from land big to land fast. If you look around the younger generation succeeding in enterprise sales, you&#x
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by briancl 10y ago
Every strong engineering team needs someone with real security chops.. not just someone who can fix SQLi after it's been pointed out, but someone who gets security at the infrastructure level. Someone who gets the why, not just the ho
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by briancl 10y ago
I haven't tried Very Old Barton... but I will. Based on your comments here, we may like some of the same whiskies. I'll add a few to the list: Four Roses Small Batch 90 Blantons 93 Four Roses Single Barrel 100 If I'm making
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by briancl 10y ago
The challenge is to provide more value than the alternative. Enterprise SaaS works where it makes sense, and it doesn't where it doesn't.
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by briancl 10y ago
What about adding additional tags or attributes so we can filter by length of time, date published (vs date submitted to your site), publisher (npr, radiotopia, etc), guests (i.e., i liked this guest on Marc Maron's podcast, where else
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by briancl 12y ago
Yep, agreed. It's probably a lot of work to build these relationships up front. It's probably easier to allow the user to make their own relationships. In other words, when I search for "lemon", give me the ability to ea
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by briancl 12y ago
I actually use these sites (mostly Yummly, but I always try new ones), and I have a comment that applies to all of them. It has to do with the variability of the underlying data. Do I have "parmesan" or "parmesan cheese&quot