brianmckenzie

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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge o
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
I liked 'The Ten-Day MBA'. It is a pretty quick read, and covers all this stuff.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
The founding fathers didn't have anything in common with the average citizen either - if anything, they were relatively more wealthy than politicians today.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
Objective-C here, too. It's kinda cool because I get to re-learn C at the same time.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
Mosaic. Since the first day I saw it, I haven't gone as much as a week without writing a computer program.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
Also the whole "you must have quick changes to succeed" is overblown. Sure a hacker will probably be able to roll out a new change a week earlier, but how much can you really gain during that 1 week? In many cases, a hacker will be able t
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
As an agency programmer, I'll say this: if you're a startup, don't hire an agency unless your website is simply a marketing vehicle for your (non-web-based) product. An agency can give you top-notch graphic design, etc, but are much too s
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
I really needed to hear this today. Thanks!
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
It is rare that an essay makes its point in such an unintended fashion.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
You can get a great standing desk at Ikea for about 100 bucks. I swear by mine.
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by brianmckenzie 18y ago
I loved DHH's speech at startup school, but having lived in Chicago and now living in SF, I have to disagree with him on this one. His point seems twofold: 1) The availability of funding in the Bay Area tempts people to take it whether they
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
How weird - just today I had to program something in PHP for the first time in years. I sometimes like to go back and use languages I haven't touched in a long time - it makes me thankful for what I have now, and the code I write in the old
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I'm writing a framework that writes frameworks.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Just sent myself a future-mail telling myself to go to the driving range this weekend. I hope it works, because I'm totally gonna forget otherwise.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Way to go!
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Oh yeah - I was a SYSOP on two BBSes in the St. Louis area, one of which was my own. This was in the early-mid 90's, just before internet became widely available. I met my high school sweetheart on my BBS. Man, those were the days.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I'm into it, a little bit. I'm good enough that I never get locked out of my apartment, but I couldn't crack a safe or anything. There's a weird and compelling sensation you get when you successfully pick a lock you've never picked before.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I applied anyway, now keeping my fingers crossed.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I like this. That is all.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
American Airlines and Scottrade both do this. Dumbasses.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Those essays (especially the ones written after Viaweb and before YC) can be inspiring if you're stuck in a cube at Big Company, Inc. and neither your managers nor your fellow programmers are interested in doing anything else with their li
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I believe you can buy a printed copy of this pic at Top Dog in Berkeley. For whatever reason.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
LOTR Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami) Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I think Doctorow overstates the awkwardness of ignoring a friend request. People do it all the time, I know I do, and I've never accepted a 'top friends' request. There's a hidden benefit if people use the 'ignore' feature properly: you g
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Stay away from MT - the grid is slow even for simple apps, and they go down on a regular basis. Have also had bad experience with Dreamhost. I recently signed up w/Joyent and am happy with it so far, have also heard good things about SoftL
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
As silly as it sounds, I don't remember his name. He was a friend-of-a-friend, I think he only mentioned it to me because I had NASA patches all over my backpack. If you're really interested I can ask around.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
The departure of two co-founders has made it take several months longer than I expected. All the same, I should be launching in the next week or so.
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
If you go to a school whose physics department is helping NASA with something, and you have a job there, you can work on NASA robots. I knew a guy who worked on the Mars rover when he was 19 or 20. He was super-smart, but that probably goes
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
Spiritualized, You Know it's true
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by brianmckenzie 19y ago
I've noticed a much more obvious connection between poverty and materialism, but perhaps for these purposes low self esteem << poverty.

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