Hacker News: daltont

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

daltont — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:50:11 +0000

Location: St. Louis, MO USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Scala, Typescript, SQL, Python

Resume/CV: https://daltontf.github.io/Resume.pdf

Email: In resume

Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: Similar to Brex what are some crazy company pivots no one talks about"

daltont — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:00:16 +0000

Old one.

Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied leather and "shoe findings" (the supplies and paraphernalia of a shoe repair shop) to shoe repairers.

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

daltont — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:09:19 +0000

An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises.

The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name.

It is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks being served by Voila. The "Blank.ipynb" one is more interactive but the ergonomics need work.

It is running free tier hosting so it could swamped if enough people use it simultaneously:

https://sportwarzsim-production.up.railway.app/

https://github.com/daltontf/SportWarzSim

There are instructions to run locally via Docker in the README.md

New comment by daltont in "‘Based on a True Story’ (2016-2019)"

daltont — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:57:15 +0000

A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that villainize a real person which role in the actual event was more benign. Coach Dan Devine in "Rudy" and boxer Max Baer Sr. in "Cinderella Man" come to mind.

New comment by daltont in "Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit"

daltont — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:33:23 +0000

Paging Steve Austin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvc-FodxV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

New comment by daltont in "Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation"

daltont — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:16:41 +0000

Otherwise it is just a Strawman argument

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: What are the most complicated machines humans have built?"

daltont — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:09:54 +0000

Saturn V rocket

New comment by daltont in "The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)"

daltont — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:43:44 +0000

I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in nature and people likely walked greater distances. My dad who grew up during the Depression in the U.S. weighed 140 pounds in his '20s, but hit 280 in his '40s. That generation was kind of blindsided by the affect of this.

Likewise, my generation is dealing with an explosion of easy to consume streams of information and entertainment and we are kind of blindsided by that I have to conscientious of spending too much time consuming online information with Reddit being my biggest vice.

New comment by daltont in "Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language"

daltont — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:29:00 +0000

I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.

Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.

New comment by daltont in "Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)"

daltont — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:16:17 +0000

I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.

When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html

New comment by daltont in "Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)"

daltont — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:31:00 +0000

I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...

New comment by daltont in "Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon"

daltont — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:20:36 +0000

Was it run by Andy Griffith?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: What can today's youth learn from young people of the 80s?"

daltont — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:17:31 +0000

"- The world isn't getting worse"

Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.

For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.

This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.

New comment by daltont in "German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app"

daltont — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:24:45 +0000

Sounds similar to a case where I am from:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall...

The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.

New comment by daltont in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)"

daltont — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:23:39 +0000

The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower.

Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options requires willpower to not over-indulge. A factory worker or subsistence farmer didn't have force themselves to exercise or worry about spending to much time watching TV. They had to work to not starve.

New comment by daltont in "NASA’s tech demo streams first video from deep space via laser"

daltont — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:29:33 +0000

It would be just be cool just to have a HD footage of satellite orbiting Mars or Venus.

New comment by daltont in "NASA’s tech demo streams first video from deep space via laser"

daltont — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:36:47 +0000

"cats have been dominating the airwaves from the beginning of broadcast video."

Maybe the Kzinti will think we are long lost relatives after receiving them.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin)

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

daltont — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:12:05 +0000

https://github.com/daltontf/clipzoomfx

I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.

New comment by daltont in "Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture"

daltont — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:10:31 +0000

Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.

New comment by daltont in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?"

daltont — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:20:04 +0000

The book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", is handy is you are Bugs Bunny and your are cornered by pack a dogs in New York. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFFqbr27Vc&t=148s )