Hacker News: carlysagan

New comment by carlysagan in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

carlysagan — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:31:20 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA and remote

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MCNP, Python/Pycharm, SQL, MATLAB, Flask API, HTML/CSS/JS, Git, C++, cluster computing, navigation algorithms, automation of engineering tasks, Kalman filters, complex robotic control, physics models, radiation effects, plasma physics, patent filing, DoD grants, pitch decks

Résumé/CV:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-9cXPTbVPwiDn33CmrvFkHd...

Email: hunt@astroplane.org

Summary: PhD in plasma physics, 10+ years of software development and cluster computing, interested in impactful software development, algorithm development, software engineering with ties to environmentalism, plasma physics applications, connecting with other female founders or environmentally-driven companies

New comment by carlysagan in "Leaving LinkedIn"

carlysagan — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:44:58 +0000

I clicked this bc I thought it was about users leaving Linkedin and was excited lol. But I listened and he pitched a 5 year plan solution to fix bad code??! Come on, this guy may never get hired again after that. Listening to this, I felt outrage at the concept of white men feeling like they can just quit when a company doesn't follow their slow engineering model. Huh?? I feel annoyed with stupid software and product decisions all the time and that's just how it is everywhere. All of capitalism and all of tech is do-it-as-fast-and-cheap-as-possible. Hello? Oh right, I looked at his Linkedin and he never had any formal training in software or engineering and has a MS in Divinty, so goodluck bruh, back to the bible for you.

New comment by carlysagan in "Jessica Livingston (2015)"

carlysagan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:16:07 +0000

It sounds to me like you are admitting that women often provide the crucial ideas and then are dis-credited. What direction would any work take without the initial idea? Lol. Even when a female has the idea and does all the work (ah-hem), a man will come along, steal the idea, claim it as his own, and suddenly be the one with a multi-million dollar seed deal or Nobel Prize or whatever. That is the reality that I have seen over and over.

New comment by carlysagan in "Jessica Livingston (2015)"

carlysagan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:51:15 +0000

This is honestly infuriating. Why wouldn't you realize that all of the characteristics of Jessica are why women are pushed out of the start-up world from the very first day they start? Why wouldn't you realize from this experience that women are the ones providing all the reasons and ideas for why a startup might be successful, but then are swept under the rug as a wife/family member/outside consultant/etc?