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brynjaron Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely

RSI? Would like to hear more about your home set-up

brynjaron A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

Can I humbly make an observation?

I agree the two events are not equivalent. Nevertheless, I think the bar has to be set higher before deciding a person is not worth talking to.

"I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion."

Are you sure you know this? I don't know who GreenHeuristics is, perhaps his comment is in good faith, perhaps not, I don't know. But his comment wasn't a mad rant, how ever much anyone may dislike it.

brynjaron The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

‘working to further fascism’ Examples please!

brynjaron Startup idea list

A streetmap I can easily draw on top of, add links and annotations etc. and send to a friend. Downloadable mobile version too. Lots of other potential add-ons.

A friend of mine is visiting London, a city I know well, so I wanted to give some tips for things to see: most of the existing services I found have a bad UI, lousy performance, buggy etc.

This was the best one I found and this took ages to create; yet should be simple:

http://quikmaps.com/show/216340

brynjaron How to travel around the world for a year.

I'm also leaving (the UK) for Berlin to start doings this come April.. Can't wait.

brynjaron Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010

"paved with death" indeed. I want to see a U.S. deaths due to terrorist attacks map plot to see how sparse that would be by comparison - 911 excepted.

brynjaron Show HN: I shipped my first product

Congrats. As someone who is currently mid way through developing my first iOS app (although I've done plenty for clients) I've definitely found how hard it is to launch your own product. The beginning idea and excitement phase is great, but seeing it through to the end is hard. Right now I'm in the trenches, looking forward to coming out the other side!