mjrbrennan

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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I’m 32, took my first surf lesson in November and absolutely loved it, bought a board that weekend. I’ve gone out whenever I can since then, about once a week at the moment and still loving it even though my stand-up count is still not that
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
Yes I do understand the legal requirement for these kind of things, I was more trying to be understanding of why there was push back from the person the OP is describing. I also think anyone would be hard pressed to find an engineer who has
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I would honestly find #3 a tough pill to swallow as well, and where do you draw the line? If I copy a line of `arr.map()` and use my own variable names does that count? Direct copying from SO can be bad generally but also adding all the lic
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I had no idea he wrote the first Strand-type poem.
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
"You might already own or plan to buy something like this book about writing novels you can use to procrastinate on writing one" - You cut me deep, thank you.
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
No I’ve never been to the states, I’ve always wanted to though. I want to visit so many states since America has such a huge cultural influence on me especially my fiction, but I live in Australia so it’s kind of impractical. Can’t wait to
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
Love Cormac as well he is also one of my favourite authors. That Judge passage is also one of my favourite passages in literature, alongside the ending of The Road which I have framed with a technical drawing of a brook trout: Once th
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I feel similarly, I find it a little difficult to start conversations and to ask people questions that get them to open up. Knowing what exactly to ask about is hard for me. But I thoroughly enjoy talking to people especially if they are le
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I do a similar thing with my own typewriter, the in-phone OCR with the iPhone is remarkably good now, only a few minor mistakes when I use it to scan in typewritten pages. It’s nice to have a different way of working when I want to. Usually
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
What a coincidence, I watched Casino just last night!
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
I know what you mean here. I used to download and meticulously tag my music and listen on an iPod classic. Sure maybe Spotify might not be ideal, but I do not have the time to fiddle around with all that anymore, and especially don’t want t
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
> Google is taking me on routes that are much less safe and more challenging > - ex: taking small side roads to a left turn onto a busy road with poor visibility and no light rather than right turns to the main road and signaled lefts
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
Honestly have no idea what the point of ordering CSS properties or imports in JS is, it’s just pointless busywork that has no meaningful impact, Ctrl+F and ripgrep exist. If it’s completely automated fine, but it is a massive pet peeve of m
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by mjrbrennan 4y ago
Same, I write fiction and years ago when I was starting out I bought the fancy Moleskine and Field Notes notebooks, among others. Those have never had more than a few pages filled in. I have however filled 11-12 A4 notebooks of various leng
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
https://writing.martin-brennan.com/ I recently gave it an overhaul to turn it into more of a "digital garden" which I go into a little here https://writing.martin-brennan.com/renewal/ . I writ
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Absolutely love Gruvbox, switched to it a couple of years back after seeing the founder of the company used it and haven’t looked back. Highlights all the right things and the colours are excellent.
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Doing this in person sounds bad, doing this over Zoom would be monstrous. Back at a previous job I had to do pairing for many hours of the day over Zoom with less experienced developers, and it was unpleasant to say the least!
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I've picked up film photography over the last couple of years and I am so happy with it, the experience of slowing down and seeing the results much later is a much more satisfying way of taking photos for me. I can't wait until I
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
That typewriter is really cool! Any more details on the setup? Here is a photo of my typewriter https://imgur.com/a/5I7xNjI > I've learned a huge amount about various topics, including empathy for the character
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I use Word. It's the easiest option and everything that you would want to submit to for short stories (and for novels I assume) expect a Word document. I've seen things like Scrivener but honestly I think that would over-complicat
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I've written one fiction novel and I'm working on another one, and have ideas for the early stages of two others. While I would like to be published one day I don't think it would hurt me too badly if I wasn't. I love wr
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I’m in the same boat as you, haven’t worked on anything with a deadline for the past 2 and a half years and I never want to go back to it, totally pointless arbitrary dates that are never met.
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Don’t worry you’re not alone! Sometimes I worry about the same thing too. But ultimately I think it’s dumb to struggle along with something for days or working on something that no one actually wants or is going in the wrong direction for d
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I absolutely hate hate hate having to do rework at the end of a feature or other project, so I loop others in with design discussions early and often. I don’t want to get to the end of something only for someone to say “Oh wait I think it s
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I use Arch Linux with dwm as my daily driver as a software engineer. Sure there is some initial pain setting it up but it’s been rock solid and super fast, never have any problems with it and I love how customised it is to my needs. I only
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
It's not just you. I have a terrible time trying to get through technical / programming books, they put me to sleep. Not everyone learns the same way and that's okay. I have no problem getting through huge fiction books, so i
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
100% agree, we bought ours a couple of years ago along with a separate grinder and it’s absolutely amazing. We bought the espresso machine for half price which was a steal (approx $950AUD instead of $1800). Literally never buy takeaway coff
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I have the same thought, and not just about technical chats, like who is spending so much time in Discords? Maybe the sibling commenter is right that there are a lot more junior developers now who want instant answers and to move on, rather
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Not the person you are replying to, but I would think that in this day that the answer to that question for most people would be "because it's Facebook". Giving more data over to their walled garden is probably not palatable
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I'm curious why Discourse feels almost as ephemeral as chat to you?

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