Hacker News: megamark16

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

megamark16 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:17:55 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Kansas City, MO | Remote or Local

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, React, jQuery, C#, ASP.NET, Go, CSS, HTML5, SQL/PSQL, Selenium, Bash, Docker/Docker Compose, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, PostUp, HubSpot automation and integration, ABBYY Vantage, Microsoft Power Automate and Power Apps.

I love consulting on projects and technical problems that people are facing, so even if you don't end up hiring me, let's at least meet and chat about what you're working on and see if there's anything I can do to help. I'm happy to offer a free initial consultation, so you've got nothing to lose but time, and I guarantee that I won't waste yours.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2025)"

megamark16 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:16:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Kansas City, MO | Remote or Local

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)"

megamark16 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:05:55 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Kansas City, MO | Remote or Local

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)"

megamark16 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:04:32 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Python, Django, Javascript, etc

Location: Kansas City, MO, USA

Remote: Preferred but open to in-person in the Kansas City Metro.

Willing to relocate: No.

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

I have over 15 years of software development experience and 10 years of solution architecture experience. I have experience architecting solutions for both AWS and GCP.

I am interested in both a full time position and freelance projects. I'm also a quick learner, so if there's a technology that I don't already have experience with I'd love the opportunity to expand my knowledge and jump in and help wherever I can.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2024)"

megamark16 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:06:27 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Kansas City, MO | Remote or Local

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

megamark16 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:02:53 +0000

Location: Kansas City, MO, USA

Remote: Preferred but open to in-person in the Kansas City Metro.

Willing to relocate: No.

Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

I have over 15 years of software development experience and 10 years of solution architecture experience. I have experience architecting solutions for both AWS and GCP.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)"

megamark16 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 01:20:40 +0000

Solution Architect | Full Stack Developer

  Location: Kansas City, MO
  Remote: Remote, Hybrid, or On-Site
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML5, REST, HubSpot, Salesforce/Marketing Cloud.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/
  Email: markransomjr at google's email service.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

megamark16 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:30:36 +0000

I didn't buy this, I inherited it from my dad, but now that I have one, if it broke I would immediately go replace it, and that's a nice DeWALT cordless drill combo, with two batteries and a charging station. In the past I have always had cheaper cordless drills, because spending $150+ on a cordless drill seemed kinda silly, but I use this thing all the time, everywhere, for all sorts of stuff.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?"

megamark16 — Mon, 21 May 2018 21:19:46 +0000

They should have just called it (Microsoft) Code. If they can use Word, Access, and Excel as product names, surely they could get away with just calling their world-class editor "Code".

I second your recommendation, I'm a sucker for a sleek editor with a great plugin architecture.

New comment by megamark16 in "The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack"

megamark16 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:58:56 +0000

Great question, and in the end it comes down to politics and team siloing. A large corporation with a lot of projects and priorities, and no single Security person to raise the issue with. At the time I wasn't in a position to Just Do It and then tell everyone "Hey, this needed to be done, I got it done, now I need a QA resource to test it and then we need to deploy it to prod" without some backlash from multiple source (my boss, the team that owned the product, etc).

Now (and given everything that's happened in the industry in recent years) I would definitely push more, and maybe fix it on my own, but at the time I just shook my head, and sent follow-up emails every few months to try to keep visibility on the issue.

New comment by megamark16 in "The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack"

megamark16 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:39:36 +0000

I used to work for a company that had a big security hole that would allow you to log in as any user as long as you knew the user's UUID (I know, right?) I logged a ticket and raised the issue up the flagpole to let folks know that if someone slipped in some code (we ran a lot of third party javascript) to harvest UUIDs, they could fairly trivially log in as an admin and do some serious damage. The issue sat for months (MONTHS!) until finally a user complained about some non-https content being loaded on our login page, which sparked a whole security review, and gave me an opportunity to bring additional attention to my ticket, which finally got fixed.

This kind of crap is out there, and people don't give it the attention it deserves until they get bitten in the ass. Thankfully, my company didn't get bitten, but if we had, it could have been very bad, and the fact that the issue was called to people's attention and they didn't do anything about it would have made it look that much worse.

New comment by megamark16 in "Ask HN: Why should I use Django?"

megamark16 — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:27:14 +0000

Django gives you a ton out of the box, with lots of sane defaults, but it still allows you to override those defaults when you're ready for more complicated functionality or business rules. I like the templating language, it lets you drop a lot of dynamic functionality into existing html templates, while staying out of the way for the most part.

New comment by megamark16 in "3-word code is address of 57M 3-square-meter patches on earth's surface"

megamark16 — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:54:54 +0000

I think part of what I like about this idea is that the vectors inside a larger vector would be the same across larger vectors, for example the very bottom left corner vector is "apple" across all larger vectors. Eventually perhaps we would all even start to recognize vector locations. What if each vector name was even categorized, so you knew that fruits were in the bottom left area of a block, and sports names (i.e. baseball, basketball, etc) are in the top right area of a vector.

Silly, maybe, but I like the idea of people having a general idea of what area something is in based solely off word usage.

New comment by megamark16 in "3-word code is address of 57M 3-square-meter patches on earth's surface"

megamark16 — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:35:09 +0000

So if my front door is steers.pasta.kicks and the end of of my driveway is effort.army.blur, there's really no rhyme or reason to it.

It seems like it should act more like web domains, so my city would be "park", my neighborhood would be "lung" and finally down to my street and house being one of the small blocks inside that. Honestly, making it 4 words seems like you could really break it down in a logical way.

New comment by megamark16 in "The Minecraft Generation"

megamark16 — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:54:44 +0000

Free and open source, and way faster than Minecraft on older hardware.

New comment by megamark16 in "The Minecraft Generation"

megamark16 — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 04:14:41 +0000

My kids love Minecraft, but more recently they have been playing an open source, highly extensible, and much faster game called Minetest. The mods are all written in Lua, and it runs so much faster on the older hardware I make my kids use, it even runs well on Raspberry Pis.

New comment by megamark16 in "Experimentally verified: “Why client-side templating is wrong” (2015)"

megamark16 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:23:44 +0000

I'll take option C) "Both, where appropriate". I'm working on a little side project that uses front end Mustache templating for allowing admins to build out some structured components, I can then reuse those same Mustache templates to render the components serverside for non-admin users consuming the service.

New comment by megamark16 in "The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp"

megamark16 — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:40:06 +0000

I came here looking for a link to someplace where I can buy this lamp. Since no one has posted such a link yet, here it is:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f034/

(I realize we all have access to Google, but if I save 100 people 10 seconds, then I just saved 1000 seconds!)

New comment by megamark16 in "From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k"

megamark16 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:04:16 +0000

From the FAQs:

> "Can you send the notebook back to me after you've scanned it?"

> Currently our scanning process isn't setup for this yet. Unfortunately our notebooks are cut on the spine as part of the scanning process, so we can’t send the physical copies back. We will send you the digital copies which you can keep forever though! Returning your physical notebook after scanning is something we're looking into adding in the future. "

So, some folks would pay more to have you rebind their notebooks using spiral binding or something, even the cheap plastic binding that school teachers use to turn kids writings into little books.

New comment by megamark16 in "Poll: How many people here use Reddit?"

megamark16 — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:42:42 +0000

I quit recently. I uninstalled the app from my phone and setup a redirect in /etc/hosts to send me to Google. I was spending too much time reading really interesting stuff, and not actually doing anything.