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brandonhall | 7 years ago | on: Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 running on three immersive monitors (2017)

I'd add SimCity in there as well. Groundbreaking when it was made.

brandonhall | 7 years ago | on: Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career

I have no particular insight to add, but simply wanted to say this is an absolutely wonderful story. A person with poor economic prospects took control and changed their life. Beautiful.

brandonhall | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read?

The Lean Startup and Good to Great

brandonhall | 7 years ago | on: A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

Well done!

brandonhall | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Bitcoin Christmas reading

Just came out and published by McGraw-Hill. Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar. It approaches crypto as an asset class and isn't very technical. Very much written for fund managers and active investors. Highly recommended.

brandonhall | 8 years ago | on: It’s Time to Found a New Republic

More than anything, I appreciate the distillation of significant reform ideas without a partisan agenda. With the exception of the judiciary change, all of these ideas would be widely popular with the larger public.

brandonhall | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?

I've used the following method for years and it's really simple. Get an external hard drive and partition it as needed. One for your Time Machine backup and another for data. Use Google Drive to mirror the data and use Arq as your Time Machine in the cloud.

brandonhall | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your backup setup?

1TB backup drive which is partitioned. Half is data and the other half is time machine. The data partition is mirrored to Google Drive. Then, I use Arq Backup to mirror time machine backups to Google Cloud Storage. In other words, there is always a true local and remote copy of everything. Very cheap and works well.

brandonhall | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them?

I concur on Quiver. I've been using it for months and it picks up nicely where Evernote lacks. I do wish it was a bit better in the usability department, but it's a fine tool. Also, I don't think it's been updated since I bought it.

brandonhall | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Dual monitors, or single 4k?

This is the same setup I have and couldn't be happier. Less expensive and with a Samsung panel the quality isn't lacking.

brandonhall | 10 years ago | on: Angular 2 versus React

I just looked at the source and it's built with Angular and Angular Material. The UI for the Cloud Console app is incredible work.

brandonhall | 13 years ago | on: 22 and no life

This is a great option for a lot of people. Glad to see you posted this. Spend 4 years in the military and you leave with great experience, have learned how to "work hard", you're respected by your peers and future employers plus you likely have a bunch of money in savings. Really wonderful option for the right people.

brandonhall | 13 years ago | on: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

I'm up in Johnson City and grew up in Knoxville. I love Tennessee, but there is zero tech scene as you know. I do freelancing remotely and it provides a great life for us.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?

Matt Cutts tweeting is how I found out.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

Don't really have to much add except that I love StackOverflow. It's been helpful so many times.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: Headphones for Hackers

I can't believe no one has mentioned Plantronics and their model 995H. They are wireless, double as a mic, have great sound quality and have controls for audio playback. $100 at the official site and I'm sure cheaper somewhere else.

I spent some serious time researching this topic last year and for the money this set was by far the best option. For the money, they are the best.

Wireless with built-in mic wins FTW. They aren't a set for audiophiles but the sound quality is excellent.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's Better? Generalist or Specialist

Thanks for your wonderful answer. I'm a generalist as well and have many of the same feelings you describe: "If only I knew more deeply".

I've dealt with the bottom falling out very recently. I spent last summer becoming a specialist in Adobe Flex for our desktop app and we know what happened there.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: [email protected] is a real email address

Haha, that's why I always use a dummy email addy at our own domain and make sure all unrouted mail bounces.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?

I think it starts with one question: Am I dreading sitting down in front of the computer today?

If yes, then you're definitely just burnt out. If the answer is no and you're not producing then you're being lazy.

brandonhall | 14 years ago | on: JQuery Growth Related To WordPress

When I see this report about the popularity of jQuery, I have to think a bunch of it is related to growth of WordPress as well. Without WordPress jQuery wouldn't be used on nearly that many sites.