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New comment by bradezone in "Write Simply"

bradezone — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:51:02 +0000

An alternative POV: https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/is-precise-langu...

New comment by bradezone in "Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?"

bradezone — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:09:03 +0000

This Kohler showerhead: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-shower-h...

New comment by bradezone in "The Opium of the Intellectuals"

bradezone — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:39:34 +0000

Fellow conservative here. Teddy Roosevelt had a balanced take on capitalism vs the rights of workers in one of his famous speeches. It "failed" at the time, but a lot of the principles ended up catching on: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/t...

(Love the Chesterton quote BTW)

New comment by bradezone in "People who haven't bought clothes for a decade"

bradezone — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:17:24 +0000

AMEN

New comment by bradezone in "People who haven't bought clothes for a decade"

bradezone — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:15:44 +0000

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Life is short enough, I might as well refresh the wardrobe every now and then. Plus I'm helping the economy! A winning strategy all around.

New comment by bradezone in "Category:Obsolete occupations"

bradezone — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:21:54 +0000

Link-boys FTW

New comment by bradezone in "How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth – in pictures"

bradezone — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:44:06 +0000

Some facts: https://fee.org/articles/5-surprising-scientific-facts-about...

New comment by bradezone in "Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram"

bradezone — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:02:29 +0000

There's no way 300000 people are actually reading entire books this way. Probably not even 3000. They're just clicking/swiping to get thru their entire stories feed, and these just happen to be in the mix.

New comment by bradezone in "Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?"

bradezone — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:16:26 +0000

I also made a newsmap.jp clone: https://news.brade.zone/

Used to be a bit better when google news told you how many articles existed per story (leading to more meaningful size differences), but it still gets the job done I guess.

New comment by bradezone in "Hey advertisers, track this"

bradezone — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 03:15:52 +0000

Mozilla is on fire lately, this is Trump level trolling & I love it

New comment by bradezone in "PHP in 2019"

bradezone — Thu, 23 May 2019 21:22:46 +0000

Personally I'm a fan of the Phalcon framework. It's also structured similarly to Laravel/Cake/Rails but is compiled into a PHP module and thus runs super fast by comparison. PHP has certainly improved with the 7.x line so I'm happy to continue using it.

New comment by bradezone in "Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)"

bradezone — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 22:17:48 +0000

He finds 189 different models to be "repeatedly useful"? Hmmmm...

New comment by bradezone in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

bradezone — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:12:05 +0000

Man, I hate authoritarians.

New comment by bradezone in "Interactive Vim tutorial"

bradezone — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 21:34:54 +0000

"Mode confusion is a feature, not a bug." Just one reason why vim is the most overrated POS of all time.

New comment by bradezone in "Git git git git git"

bradezone — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:16:00 +0000

Why type "git" and walk away? Seems like an ultra edge case that deserves whatever ill comes from it.

New comment by bradezone in "Text-only CNN"

bradezone — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:59:07 +0000

I made this thingie based on Google News and the design of Newsmap: http://news.bradezone.com/

It's one of my few side projects I use every day.

New comment by bradezone in "Please Make Google AMP Optional"

bradezone — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:17:58 +0000

Google AMP is the devil and I've long since switched to DuckDuckGo as my search engine on mobile. The thing I hate most about ANY technology is when they think they know what I want more than I do.

New comment by bradezone in "App.net is shutting down"

bradezone — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:43:00 +0000

Doomed to fail from the beginning. Horrible name which was leeched from Microsoft, and Twitter was clearly already so far ahead. AND THEY WANT ME TO PAY?

New comment by bradezone in "Tech Jobs, Cheaper Housing: The New Silicon Cities"

bradezone — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:37:56 +0000

Couldn't read article b/c of paywall, but I gotta put in a good word for Greenville SC, where I currently live. It's been popping up on a lot of "cool cities" lists recently, and rightfully so. Great & growing tech scene. I personally work for a medical start-up & could be living anywhere, but right now I'm content to be in "G-Vegas" =]

New comment by bradezone in "Show HN: An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube"

bradezone — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:58:39 +0000

Really dislike how titles are truncated after a fairly small number of words. (I did a search for "on cinema" which is a comedy web series, and almost none of the results showed a full title.) There seems to be no reason not to simply let the titles wrap. Who cares if some result boxes are bigger than others? Anyway, a potentially useful tool if this is corrected.