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bwb

3,846 karmajoined 18 years ago
Howdy and welcome,

I run the book discovery website Shepherd.com and am working to build something unique and feed everyone's curiosity.

If I can be of any help, feel free to hit me up. You can contact me at [email protected] (or Twitter at @bwb).

I've got a lot of experience running remote companies. The largest was 135+ people over 18 countries doing software, dev-ops, and heavy customer service. I am also happy to help if you are having issues with a business partner - I've been through some intense situations and learned a lot.

Thanks, Ben

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Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child's immersion into wilderness

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My favorite classic working-class novels of all time

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Jonathan Daly's fav books about individuals who changed the way we see the world

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Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child's immersion into wilderness

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Bruce Balfour's favorite science fiction novels about Mars colonization

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4 points·by bwb·2 months ago·1 comments

Paul Levinson's favorite time travel novels that respect the paradoxes

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The dark fascist secret hidden beneath one of Europe's largest railway stations

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6 points·by bwb·2 months ago·1 comments

My favorite hard science fiction books by old masters

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5 points·by bwb·3 months ago·1 comments

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

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A trainspotter's dream: our own station on England's most scenic railway

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2 points·by bwb·3 months ago·1 comments

Ask HN: My website is being attacked by Facebook's bots. Anyone have a contact?

1 points·by bwb·4 months ago·2 comments

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

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900 points·by bwb·6 months ago·780 comments

Readers' favorite nonfiction reads of 2025 (voting ongoing)

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2 points·by bwb·6 months ago·1 comments

My favorite sci-fi books about sci-fi books about understanding the "enemy"

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Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read

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134 points·by bwb·6 months ago·41 comments

My favorite reads books about making scientific discoveries

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1 points·by bwb·8 months ago·0 comments

My fav books on carbon dioxide's pivotal role in Earth history

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2 points·by bwb·8 months ago·0 comments

My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before

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bwb
·3 days ago·discuss
How does this work with sunglasses?
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·4 days ago·discuss
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·9 days ago·discuss
Ah gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible.

I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.
bwb
·9 days ago·discuss
Anyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?
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·9 days ago·discuss
Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage?

Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?
bwb
·19 days ago·discuss
My son loves these books, I've read them to him hundreds of times :)
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·22 days ago·discuss
Down and out in Paris and London was a life changing read for me :)
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·last month·discuss
Ya, but this is a proof-of-concept rip-off. The fact that the indexes don't have our back is a huge problem.
bwb
·last month·discuss
I should note, mostly we have screened, and then paid them to come work with us for 3 to 4 hours on a real piece of code.
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·last month·discuss
First, get a kazoo, chalk, 5 live chickens, and a sharp knife.

Use the chalk to draw a numbered grid on the sidewalk; 10 should be fine.

Divide the resumes into 10 groups.

Cut the head off a chicken and see which number it wanders into. Repeat until you are down to one resume.

Done and far more efficient than all the current methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Khvtqr-BxY
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·last month·discuss
I really recommend The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester. My brother picked it for a family book club and I was blown away. Amazing story and person.
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·last month·discuss
My Side Of The Mountain is one of my favorite books of all time. I built so many forts inspired by that book :)
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
Great list :)
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
How is press freedom in Malta? Was everyone ever held responsible for the car bombing of Daphne?
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
weird, didn't really have anything to do with my comment, i figured it was bots/spam.
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
eh? why did you reply to my comment with this one not about my comment?
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·2 months ago·discuss
What an upsetting read. This is just how you "breed" more terrorism.
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
Good read as I love this type of history in plain sight.
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·2 months ago·discuss
I watched that video yesterday, their solution was to fix the pension funding problem :)

They made the point that more immigration / growth wouldn't help fix the core problem if they don't fix that asap.
bwb
·2 months ago·discuss
well said, I agree, and those big things become holy wars even though they largely have zero impact on them. Better to focus on things closer to where they can have an impact, I think they would be happier.