Hacker News: kewpiedoll99

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:22:58 +0000

> why is ... mine [only] around about a year’s worth of salary?

this complaint is almost as tone deaf as the satire. poor you. i was laid off, and only got a month's severance.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:03:35 +0000

i assume you mean sitting on the floor and using a shorter height table as a deak. i would love links to Ikea options. i can't even think what you would search for to find such a thing!

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:52:51 +0000

i would add, "5. Ask questions." if you struggle to make conversation, find one thing about the person and ask them about it. how did they decide to do what they do for a living? what about that hat made them buy it?

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:50:08 +0000

i love the gentle approach described here. it's the best way to make incremental progress in what seems at first glance to be an insurmountably difficult problem. thank you!

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Advent of Code 2021"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:35:09 +0000

those poor cats.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool"

kewpiedoll99 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:07:46 +0000

i just played with it a bit and it's kind of awesome! It takes like 5 min to get the hang of it. I didn't notice until I came back here about publishing completed maps, that's great too. Passed along to my (many) game playing friends. If you decided to open source it I would join on for sure.

Why is the hallway tool called "snap to grid"? That was the one I couldn't figure out how to get back to because it's a non-intuitive name imo. When I went back in just now and restarted doodling, I saw that was the tool highlighted.

Also, the way the wall tool works is harder to use than the way the "hallway" aka "snap to grid" tool works, imo the latter is more intuitive.

Just some thoughts! Awesome work!

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:24:10 +0000

Or ProServ - it's a lot of debugging/diagnostics work. There's a whole wide world of need for good diagnosticians who are thin on the ground, my friend.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:41:12 +0000

  Location: northern New Jersey, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Java, Python, REST, Dropwizard or Spring Boot, 
                MySQL, Hibernate, Jenkins, Rundeck, git, Docker
  Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/38t7aE8
  Email: please see resume

Looking for a long-term senior-level backend technical role. I'm a generalist with lots of different technologies including 15+ years of Java, a recent python/Docker project, a couple years of Scala. I like wearing lots of hats. I'm currently working my way through the gawk manual in service of a side noodle sorting images by date created.

Ready to act immediately if we are a good fit.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email"

kewpiedoll99 — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:54:59 +0000

This is something I definitely wanted and didn't know about. Thanks!

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "A Career Cold Start Algorithm"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:26:29 +0000

I'm an IC and I read it as very relevant for ICs.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Net neutrality is in jeopardy again"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 12 May 2017 17:45:39 +0000

Last Week Tonight just did a piece about it. They described the circuitous, torturous route the FCC site put into place to hinder consumer feedback. LWT announced they have purchased the domain >>> gofccyourself.com <<< to take you right to the FCC page you need to get to. Go to gofccyourself.com and comment. Long form is better. Well written is better. Well reasoned is better. But any comments are (one hopes) better than nothing. Get involved!

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:17:58 +0000

"Senior Developer: Can architect a system well."

How do you learn to do this?

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:14:57 +0000

I like this a lot. It's organized and measurable. Follow-on question, how do you get there?

As an aside, I often feel that being senior involves confidence.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but..."

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:47:14 +0000

Then why do they put people through those extreme paces? If you have the chops to get through the Google interview process, you are not "just another developer." If I were enough of a star to get through the process, got hired, and then was put to work maintaining some internal Java tool, I'd be pretty pissed off.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Linda Liukas's Process in Writing Hello Ruby"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:02:26 +0000

As a backer of Linda Liukas's Kickstarter for her book Hello Ruby, "a children’s book that teaches programming fundamentals through stories and kid-friendly activities," I have been getting updates on her progress. I recently received her 18th. This one details her process over the past year as she has built the book. It's fascinating and (not surprisingly) delightful. I really liked how much she learned from multiple iterations over a single drawing, and from her editor. I can't wait until the book is released.

Linda Liukas's Process in Writing Hello Ruby

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby/posts/1172077

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9239415

Points: 3

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New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines"

kewpiedoll99 — Tue, 27 May 2014 20:00:49 +0000

They are working in lots of other locations besides just Mozambique. They are also good at sniffing out whether a sputum sample is positive for TB! Check out their website. I've been giving them money for several years now. They were featured in an article in the NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/opinion/17kristof.html), a list of different ideas for Father's Day gifts. My dad got a kick out of it.

New comment by kewpiedoll99 in "Ask HN: What happens to older developers?"

kewpiedoll99 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:55:06 +0000

I never understood why my dad got sensitive about letting people know he was 50 and over until I got there and found myself working side by side with mostly people under 30. Now I'm careful not to let anybody know when I graduated from college or how old I am. I know I am more expensive than a lot of them. If I were in the shoes of management I would be looking hard at more expensive employees and assessing whether they were worth it. I interviewed at a place I'd have liked to make a move to, recently, but they passed and I have to wonder if their decision was to do with my being older and/or asking for too much money.

Emotionally, it's definitely harder to get excited about the new next hot thing. I'm not sure there's a lot more in coding that I am super excited about. I could see getting out of development. I'd be interested in getting into a related discipline, so if anybody has specific suggestions about that I'd love to hear them.