brunellus

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by brunellus 3mo ago
I really enjoyed this.
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by brunellus 4mo ago
Hello! I recently released a paid macOS Markdown reader for this reason. You can learn more here: https://terramar.dev/products/filo/ (Please excuse my self-promotion.)
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by brunellus 6mo ago
roryokane thanks for this example. I tend to stick with git CLI and this was new to me.
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by brunellus 2y ago
Agreed. Non-competes always seemed incongruous to the tech/startup zeitgeist of the last 10-15 years. But just by walking around in Boston, one can simply look at the architecture and infer it’s a parochial, old school little city. Pow
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by brunellus 3y ago
Indeed. Sports involve risk, and competition is about learning to navigate those risks. This implies a right to self-destruction. Without this sports are void of courage and competence, and their value is greatly diminished.
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by brunellus 3y ago
Tolstoy phrased it more beautifully “If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised
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by brunellus 4y ago
I’m pretty sure Lafayette had been training for this since he was around 12-13 years old.
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by brunellus 4y ago
We
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by brunellus 4y ago
The individual commits aren’t interesting until you need them. They should be organized such that they remove the desire to squash them together. Having a well written commit history is in the spirit of the tool and is the more professional
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by brunellus 4y ago
I was in a nearly identical situation to yours about 10 years ago. At the end of undergrad finance/economics studies I recognized I needed more technical expertise, so I went to a grad program and learned as much as I could about econo
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by brunellus 4y ago
Which part?
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by brunellus 5y ago
Great point, I wasn’t aware of this.
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by brunellus 5y ago
The variety of investments available to the middle class is already too small. The people who would be disqualified from investing by these increased restrictions are shrewd enough to not need such protection.
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by brunellus 5y ago
Totally. All of this crap mounts up to being a form of prosperity gospel.
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by brunellus 5y ago
I’m glad I’m not in college anymore
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by brunellus 5y ago
I’ve tried to articulate this a few times but you’ve bested all of my attempts.
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by brunellus 5y ago
Totally. The irony of this is lost on so many.
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by brunellus 5y ago
This point is reminiscent of the Chesterton’s Fence concept discussed on HN recently
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by brunellus 5y ago
Indeed if there were a standard format, there would be competitive advantages to using other channels to showcase your experience
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by brunellus 5y ago
It’s a good question. I would be interested to know which economic forces drove the price changes. I suspect that prices could still increase even in spite of public funding decreases due to the point in my original post. But to me, all of
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by brunellus 5y ago
My original argument still stands. And the government was perfectly capable of bailing out private companies at the end of Bush Jr’s second term.
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by brunellus 5y ago
There’s no need to measure anything. The problem with student loans is qualitative. Banks are allowed to make unsecured loans and the borrowers can’t usefully declare bankruptcy. Colleges have every reason to raise prices and lenders have n
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by brunellus 5y ago
Interesting observation. What were the implications?
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by brunellus 5y ago
If you don't understand Oxford Commas, you aren't fluent in English.
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by brunellus 5y ago
This is simple economics. There is an "overhead" cost required in order to start a task. Each interruption means stopping, then starting again, incurring this cost repeatedly. The people who force these interruptions don't ca
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by brunellus 5y ago
Design Blogs With Polarizing Titles: Hell No
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by brunellus 7y ago
How extreme would the health detriments have to be such that it’s no longer an “entitled” view?