Hacker News: junker37

New comment by junker37 in "The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls"

junker37 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:13:53 +0000

Thx! I had always thought it was the other way around.

New comment by junker37 in "The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls"

junker37 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:39:31 +0000

I'm pretty sure they mean Lake Ontario. It's been a while since I've been there. But I believe the water falls from Lake Ontario into Lake Eerie.

New comment by junker37 in "The short, happy reign of CD-ROM"

junker37 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:43:30 +0000

I think the distinction is, the Dr orders the x-rays from a place they have a relationship with and waiting for it, vs, you bringing x-rays from some unknown source.

New comment by junker37 in "How babies and young children learn to understand language"

junker37 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:35:49 +0000

Boston by chance?

New comment by junker37 in "Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact"

junker37 — Thu, 26 May 2022 20:31:52 +0000

I work at Rescale https://rescale.com/company/careers/. The impact we are providing is one of the main reasons I work there.

New comment by junker37 in "Show HN: Long Range E-Bike"

junker37 — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:13:36 +0000

OP was referring to pedestrian/bike paths. I believe everyone should stay on the right. I agree, with car traffic, pedestrians should be on the left.

New comment by junker37 in "First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq"

junker37 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:38 +0000

This is correct. I do cardio 10-15 hours/week and have to count my calories so I don't gain weight.

New comment by junker37 in "Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results"

junker37 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:07:20 +0000

> According to this logic, if results were listed alphabetically (i.e., based on a truly objective criteria), we would see folks naming everything beginning with "0" or "A".

This is seen in practice. The yellow pages were?(are?) alphabetical, which is why you see so many business that start with the letter A.

New comment by junker37 in "Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update"

junker37 — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55:43 +0000

Am I the only one who prefers the red nubs on on Thinkpads? I find it very hard to use any touchpads. When I used a mac, I would carry around a mouse. I wish thinkpads would get rid of the touchpad. I'm perfectly happy with just using the nub.

New comment by junker37 in "Remote Work Report"

junker37 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:09:41 +0000

No need to be thrifty. I live not too far from the Iowa border in a relatively small MN town. I work remote for a company based in SF and know I make a percentage less than the senior engineers that live out there. If I had to guess, I would guess I make about a junior developers salary. That salary goes a long way here. There are very few senior engineering positions that will match what I'm making, but the culture is not the same. I'm maxing out retirement accounts, 401k's, HSA's, Roth IRA's and I'll have a paid of house by the end of the year.

New comment by junker37 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)"

junker37 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 03:19:11 +0000

Back-end engineer with 10 years of experience building API's/services in AWS for startups. Only looking for remote opportunities. Location: Minnesota Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Golang, Typescript, PHP, MySQL, DynamoDB AWS Technologies: Cloudformation, EC2, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, RedShift, CloudFront, VPC, Athena, Data Pipeline, QuickSight, Kinesis Résumé/CV: On Request Email: jeremy.mcjunkin@gmail.com

New comment by junker37 in "Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project"

junker37 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:31:25 +0000

We're just over 2%, all in AWS costs.

New comment by junker37 in "Would You Rather Have $1M or $5,000 Monthly in Retirement?"

junker37 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:42:47 +0000

> Remember, you're no longer a long term investor, you can't ride out ups and downs, you have to keep paying the bills during down periods, excaberating your losses

I don't know about you, but most people in my social circle intend to retire between 55-60 and that leaves 25-30 years of retirement, so definitely still in the long term investing range.

When I retire, I don't plan to adjust my investments until I get past 80.

New comment by junker37 in "DynamoDB cannot store empty strings"

junker37 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:58:08 +0000

Correct, our read/write access isn't spread out. So, before knowing how the partitions worked, we increased our read/write throughput, this caused the partitions to increase, so now our throughput that was spread out across the entire table, was split between 2 partitions. This caused even more throttling.

New comment by junker37 in "DynamoDB cannot store empty strings"

junker37 — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:20:09 +0000

The reasons we use it * doesn't require any setup (no provision servers, maintining backups, etc) * automatic backups * practically free during development * scales when you need it too

That said, we've run into issues with the partitioning. If we were given access to the partition information and the ability to reduce partitions when needed, that would solve those problems.

New comment by junker37 in "Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)"

junker37 — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:21:31 +0000

After seeing this article the first time, I decided to try the 3 day fast as well. I too continued my normal morning 3 mile runs and noticed that if I couldn't push the pace for very long. I'm just an anecdote, but my immune system seems to be stronger this winter. With two little ones who've been sick a couple of times and a wife that had the flu, I've been able to get by with just minimal congestion.

New comment by junker37 in "Pointer Pointer"

junker37 — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:23:19 +0000

If the image resolution software isn't good enough, and there's a lot of images, you could mechanical turk it using the reverse site. Show on image and have the user click on the finger (or none).

New comment by junker37 in "Show HN: Terminal sharing using your browser"

junker37 — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:31:08 +0000

This is pretty useful. I think it should only be readable by default. Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only?

New comment by junker37 in "Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round"

junker37 — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:30:40 +0000

Then you choose another open source offering or fork nginx and start implementing the features it's missing.

New comment by junker37 in "My Friends and I Bought an Island"

junker37 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:44:37 +0000

I would wager a guess that's it's total. He mentions island prices similar to land prices.