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New comment by brm in "Jerry's Map"

brm — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:17:58 +0000

Can't feed Jerry to the ai though

New comment by brm in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

brm — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:40:25 +0000

Or, a society will just start having children again once the population gets small enough that having children becomes a more optimal decision or the supply of things that make having children optimal is increased...

New comment by brm in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

brm — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:06:32 +0000

I think it's a good thing to have more people creating things. I also think it's a good thing to have to do some work and some thinking and planning to produce a work.

New comment by brm in "Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair"

brm — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:55:20 +0000

Mount Stupidity relates to section two of the blog post where it references a concept related to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

New comment by brm in "Let me GPT that for you"

brm — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:32:02 +0000

I really try hard not to be down on stuff like this, to let it pass uncommented, but the mere creation of this site is evidence that creator missed the point of the original that they derived it from.

New comment by brm in "Basketball Is a Solved Sport"

brm — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:07:16 +0000

Knowing what to do in a situation and being able to do it in a situation are two different things.

New comment by brm in "A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf]"

brm — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:53:12 +0000

They don't have to actively cultivate it but they should remove the walls between it. There's a lot of red tape/administrative confusion at most schools if you want to do anything interdisciplinary, especially if you want to cross more than two disciplines. Institutions should be more like buffets for the polymath. If I want to interlink say landscape architecture, sculpture, acoustics, materials science and biology I shouldn't need more than one signoff much less the 5 it would probably take to do work in something like that at most universities.

New comment by brm in "Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy"

brm — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:50:15 +0000

they asked how to do it, not if it was good to do it.

New comment by brm in "Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy"

brm — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 03:17:21 +0000

Inline style or

New comment by brm in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

brm — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:53:15 +0000

Brilliant that help you've offered is SEO spam. If that's not the Internet in a nutshell I don't know what it is. Good show.

New comment by brm in "Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people"

brm — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:47:17 +0000

I mean you've also accurately described Pennsylvania...

New comment by brm in "Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America"

brm — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:52:49 +0000

I can use a couple free searches to dox nearly anyone in America...

New comment by brm in "Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding"

brm — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:16:31 +0000

Never seen anything like it really. Over a £12mm handout they chopped the head off one of the most important visa endorsing bodies with no real plan to replace it. I'm sure they'll scramble to find one but the absolute madness of it absolutely reflects the entirety of what's going on in UK government at the moment.

New comment by brm in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

brm — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:09:09 +0000

Php/MySQL/html/css still the easiest simplest way to get anything out the front door

New comment by brm in "2023 Global Passport Ranking"

brm — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:17:15 +0000

In the interest of moving the Overton window, I've yet to hear a good, logical reason why we don't allow the free movement of people between administrative states.

New comment by brm in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

brm — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:35:29 +0000

Prior to 2015, Twitter was the pre-child view source generation tweeting interesting articles and what they ate for lunch.

Designing for Improvisation (2010)

brm — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bobulate.com/2010/02/designing-for-improvisation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594867

Points: 20

# Comments: 3

New comment by brm in "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)"

brm — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:23:09 +0000

I'd bring back David Karp

New comment by brm in "Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people"

brm — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:53:25 +0000

You know how everyone shouts learn to code? To coders/founders I say learn to design. Or give more of your equity than you think you should to a designer. The nice thing about design is its pretty easy to see examples and references and most designers would actually be happy to work at a start up from the beginning as part of the founding team, its just that in a lot of the tech world designers aren't viewed as integral until after the fact and really the track record of design-led startups and your reaction to ones that are polished out of the gate should indicate otherwise. Contrary to what OP said /u/iMuzz isn't really even a unicorn designer, there's plenty just like them, you've just got to decide its important and find a way to invest time, money, or effort.

New comment by brm in "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday"

brm — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:28:04 +0000

Everyone always writes these and yet I've seen very few ever talk about how to decide what's worth showing up for or how to get a working hypothesis of an animating principle for your own existence. It'd be remarkably useful to have a working framework for how to figure out what to want, especially targeted at smart people with top level talents in several areas.