dbrunton

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by dbrunton 3y ago
Came here (and used Fastmail for password recovery) to say just this. I actually forget what it’s like to sell advertising on my correspondence!
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence(copyright.gov)
3 points by dbrunton 4y ago|0 comments
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by dbrunton 10y ago
If you want to be a successful bank robber, probably. Pirate, yeah, probably that too. If you want to be a successful hit man, smuggler, or drug dealer, you're going to have to bend some rules. I think if you tell a different sort of s
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by dbrunton 10y ago
"Making friends" is more technical than "learning math." But more importantly, having friends helps more with technical problems than, say, knowing some technology that doesn't apply here. Same for resiliency. This
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Learn to be resilient. Pick up an artistic or handcraft technique. Make friends. Comedy, music, drama, or something other performing art. Know your means, live within them.
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Try increasing your attention on what's important to you, instead of decreasing your attention on what isn't. You can be asked for your attention, explicitly or implicitly, any time, for the dumbest stuff. Most of us have never le
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Yeah! Kierkegaard! I agree with your point, even though I wouldn't call it a middle ground. I think, "make as much money as you can without being evil" is, maybe a middle ground. I think, "make money while doing a partic
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by dbrunton 10y ago
You can do it! Have a mission. Imagine a kid dribbling a basketball along the baseline, while staring intently out-of-bounds. "What are you doing, kid?" "Making sure I don't go over the line!" Coach tells the kid to
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Do something completely different, and start immediately. Maybe it's working in a coffee shop, maybe it's laboring on a farm, maybe it's teaching a pottery class or bagging groceries. But it's something that provides som
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Find someone to help. Preferably, this will be someone at work. Either someone in your job who's as stuck as you are, someone in the next layer up who needs a boost, or someone in the next tier down who needs a hand. It will be your ne
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by dbrunton 10y ago
I'm not a Stoic, but I like your question. Would you mind too much if I slightly re-worded it? "...retained a positive outlook while projecting no intrinsic meaning onto the universe..." I was raised with the idea that belief
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by dbrunton 10y ago
Or into the pockets of the owners of the robots who develop, maintain, and power these robots.
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Five Counterintuitive Lessons for Founders(techstars.com)
2 points by dbrunton 11y ago|0 comments
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An Unexpectedly Long-Expected Party(perl6advent.wordpress.com)
2 points by dbrunton 11y ago|0 comments
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by dbrunton 11y ago
Five good reads (okay, one that I've read and four that I now definitely will), and the beautiful prose I have come to love over twenty years of reading this particular author.
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by dbrunton 11y ago
Tell that to someone on the no fly list.
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Learning From People Who Do(inkdroid.org)
2 points by dbrunton 14y ago|0 comments
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An Ode to Node(inkdroid.org)
2 points by dbrunton 15y ago|0 comments
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by dbrunton 15y ago
HAHAHAHA, touche! Thanks for the perspective ;)
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I Do Not Stand Up for Stallman(davidbrunton.com)
14 points by dbrunton 15y ago|5 comments
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by dbrunton 15y ago
Huh, for some reason, I can't see the comment I submitted with the post. Sorry if this shows up twice... My little brother (I'm so proud!) wrote a blog post about faster TCP slow starts. He was sad nobody was reading it, so I redditized t
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Proggit Thread on Faster TCP Slow Starts(reddit.com)
5 points by dbrunton 15y ago|4 comments
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by dbrunton 18y ago
I wrote a long-format response to this essay on Jottit: http://lies.jottit.com . It's kind of too long to make as a comment, hence this pointer.