mjrbrennan

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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
> Instead I get some algorithm that is determining hotness, which doesn't seem to ever change. Perhaps the Discourse forum you visited had Top as the default view? Usually it's Latest which is the topics which most recently had
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Christine by Stephen King. I am a King superfan and even I could not get through this, was just boring, there is only so much you can write about a possessed car and the novel is undeservedly huge. I have no problem with his other giant n
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Same, also The Fountainhead, and that quote is always on my mind when choosing books. Thankfully most of the time I don't have to enforce it.
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
This is really cool! I much prefer writing in longhand (I do for all my fiction writing). However my handwriting is absolutely awful. Maybe I need to try this out and see how it fares -- all the examples on the front page have nice neat han
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
This is how you end up with Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge .
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I have to agree with your other comment. Drawing things out on pen and paper helps me a lot as well, but it’s quite difficult to do when you need to work around existing code and keep all the classes, methods, and logic in your head, lookin
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Yes all the time, debugger for JavaScript and binding.pry for ruby. I don’t understand how people can rely purely on print debugging. I find it much more useful to stop and inspect the state and input, and being able to print a backtrace fr
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I am not sure if this is entirely what you mean, but for a game Red Dead Redemption 2 can scratch this itch. The natural environment, ecosystem, and weather effects are amazing. You can easily just avoid the main game and just wander around
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
F: Saw a job posting from one of the founders on Twitter. Almost didn’t apply but then I did and it all worked out, best job decision I’ve ever made!
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
Yeah I think about going to coworking spaces now and then (I am full remote since October 2019) and then I remember that all of them play music over the speakers and how awful that is for concentration, not to mention the loud conversations
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I hate this stupid distinction so much as well. The idea that you have to follow artists instead of seeing the artists based on your liked songs or albums is so dumb.
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I think in American Psycho Bateman and his friends are already super rich before even going into work, having been born into wealth as "trust fund kids". I am pretty sure, unless I remember incorrectly, that Pearce & Pearce, t
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I guess inkjet printers are good for something after all! Was there any reason...why he did that?
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
That was a great read, thanks for linking!
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by mjrbrennan 5y ago
I don't get the usefulness/effectiveness print debugging. I work in Ruby and JavaScript and I find it much more efficient to know the whole state of the world and the objects in it at a certain place, because I generally know wher
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
> just engaging in work theater I do not have firsthand experience at this, but from my understanding being a salaryman in Japan means staying in the office until the boss leaves. It does not matter if you are producing value or not in t
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
Most of the time I read the comments first because there is a good discussion and this is a nice indicator of whether the article is worth reading or not.
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
I was really weirded out by this too, almost felt like the cursor was snapping!
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
This is super workplace dependent. Some places just want you to churn stuff out quickly and are unforgiving of research and time spent thinking things through. Other places value everyone taking their time, learning, and finding the right s
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
> Does anyone really need to be warned that they are using the passive voice? Does anyone actually do that by accident? Yes, all the time. I write a lot and still fall into the trap, and it is hard not to do it sometimes especially if yo
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
This is the one we have at home https://www.breville.com/au/en/products/tea/bke720.html , works great!
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
Fair enough! Looks like there is a big difference in electricity between US and UK as well? I am in Australia and we use our kettle (with several different preset temperatures) all the time.
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
Just curious...why use a microwave for hot water instead of an electric kettle?
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
Personally the wifi version of wireless hotspot was always finicky for me on Linux, requiring a few restarts of the hotspot and the computer wifi to get synced up. Wired tethering always worked instantly. Well, until now sadly :(. I tried t
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
It’s actually quite nice, I only remembered I posted this comment just now and I came back and saw it had some upvotes and extra comments which was a nice surprise.
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
That automatic email issue is an interesting one, I will take a look and see if there are similar complaints or internal discussions. I know we have some ideas about letting users choose which categories they are tracking on signup instead
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
I find the idea of blaring a TV or music in an office is so disrespectful. The people who need quiet to work _really_ need it...if you need noise put some headphones on to listen to music or a show. It shouldn’t be the other way around, it
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
I work at Discourse; there is new functionality coming in the 2.6 release to address this issue, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-experienced-users-skip-new-... . When you join a new community you will be able to cl
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
Found this true of everything, and yet I continue to procrastinate. For example I write fiction. The absolute hardest part is just starting to write. Once I start I have no problem whatsoever to keep going.
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by mjrbrennan 6y ago
I'd much rather do a take-home project at my own pace funded by the company, seeing as how my personal GitHub is a barren wasteland (well...it was before I started working for an OSS company).

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