Hacker News: demilicious

New comment by demilicious in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

demilicious — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:17:47 +0000

I have quite literally never had to do Java interop in my Kotlin work. Do you have an example?

In contrast, your statement about F# strikes me as mostly true - albeit my interop was always the other way around (consuming F# code from C#).

New comment by demilicious in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

demilicious — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:33:19 +0000

This is overestimating the amount of effort involved to game on Linux, imo. It is true that there are a couple games using kernel-level anticheat which preclude their working on linux, but for the most part the effort required to play games on Linux now is zero if it's a Steam game and almost zero elsewhere.

New comment by demilicious in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

demilicious — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:21:10 +0000

KDE has been great for me on Fedora. What problems have you encountered?

New comment by demilicious in "Users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11"

demilicious — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:40:21 +0000

I did the same on my gaming machine in early 2025 to get well ahead of the Win10 EOL. I installed Nobara and have been really happy with it.

New comment by demilicious in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

demilicious — Sat, 03 May 2025 22:46:40 +0000

My biggest gripe is losing the entire layer of semantics that HTTP gives you. POST is the only verb and different error states are conveyed via error objects in the returned JSON.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)"

demilicious — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:21:18 +0000

  Location: Ohio, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, even preferred
  Languages: Clojure, C#, F#, TypeScript, Ruby, SQL
  Technologies: k8s, Kafka, Postgres, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/45Vze0X
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts [dot] com

Hi, I’m Ryan. I’m a senior software engineer with about a decade of industry experience over a diverse array of languages and technologies. My areas of interest include machine learning, optimization, and complex systems architecture. I particularly enjoy working with functional languages and am always interested in opportunities to solve difficult problems and really push my boundaries.

I’m also passionate about building healthy, functional teams who can focus on building the right things quickly.

I’m self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think honed my ability to distill complex requirements into simple concepts and to communicate well with technical and non-technical folk alike.

I like to unwind by indulging in my hobbies of hand-tool woodworking or music production. It’s another way I enjoy solving problems, albeit in a very different context. Always looking to learn and grow, so I relish the idea of being the least experienced person in the room - it means I’m in the right place :)

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)"

demilicious — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:32:28 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

Full stack engineer for 9+ years. I'm interested in solving hard problems and would love to help build creative and beautiful solutions. Machine learning, optimization, and games are three particular points of interest, but working with functional languages is always a plus.

I'm passionate about building functional, healthy teams who can focus on building the right things quickly.

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)"

demilicious — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:57:24 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

Full stack engineer with about 9 years of experience. I'm interested in solving hard problems and would love to help build creative and beautiful solutions. Machine learning, optimization, and games are three particular points of interest, but working with functional languages is always a plus.

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

demilicious — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:41:43 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

Full stack engineer with about 9 years of experience in all sorts of tech stacks and company sizes. I'm interested in solving hard problems and would love to help build creative and beautiful solutions. Machine learning, optimization, and games are three particular points of interest, but working with functional languages in any domain is always a plus.

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)"

demilicious — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:50:36 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)"

demilicious — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:00:05 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: C#, F#, Ruby, Clojure, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile"

demilicious — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:58:50 +0000

DAs don't have cases to prosecute if cops don't make the arrest.

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)"

demilicious — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:35:15 +0000

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: C#/F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Clojure, Angular, SQL, Bash, AWS, Azure, HTML/CSS, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

Full stack engineer with about 7 years of experience. I'm interested in solving hard problems and would love to help build creative and beautiful solutions. Machine learning, optimization, and games are three particular points of interest, but working with functional languages is always a plus.

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

New comment by demilicious in "What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?"

demilicious — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:23:55 +0000

Can you describe what body weight exercises you found helpful? Why do you think those were different than what you were accomplishing with traditional gym weightlifting?

New comment by demilicious in "FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone"

demilicious — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:37:44 +0000

The replies to this are baffling. Of course not. It’s a huge, incredibly diverse and heterogeneous country of ~300 million people.

New comment by demilicious in "July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says"

demilicious — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:40:30 +0000

What’s the motive for reporting inflated temperatures?

New comment by demilicious in "The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar"

demilicious — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 01:14:08 +0000

Already sold out most places, it seems.

New comment by demilicious in "A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core"

demilicious — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 17:30:17 +0000

That makes sense. I was mostly looking at one of the Tom's Hardware benchmarks in particular; I don't know what the userbenchmark is actually _doing_. So it's probably more fair to compare userbenchmark to userbenchmark like you did.

However, I think it's still true that the actual release of the Zen 2 processors will make userbenchmark scores much more reliable as the scores regress to the mean.

New comment by demilicious in "A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core"

demilicious — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 17:18:54 +0000

As far as I know, these processors are not yet released. What's the confidence level that this user benchmark will be indicative of real life expected performance?

It seems implausible that this user benchmark is a good indicator. The Zen 1 architecture exhibited nothing of the sort[0] -- it would be an order of magnitude performance regression.

I expect we'll start to see more accurate tests once the processors are actually released into the wild.

[0]https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-revie...

New comment by demilicious in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)"

demilicious — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:14:00 +0000

5 years as a full stack dev, but I've increasingly moved lower down the stack. I'm interested in continuing that trend, even if it takes me out of web development. I've done some machine learning and optimization work in the past and would be interested in pursuing those opportunities as well.

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught (from books and practical exercise) and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and also communicate well.

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, .NET (F#/C#), SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Linux, etc
  Interested-in Technologies: Rust, Forth, CL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-roberts-ba598434
  Email: ryan at rtroberts dot com