Hacker News: rjplatte

New comment by rjplatte in "Tesla Cybertruck"

rjplatte — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:44:57 +0000

I have mixed feelings right now, but this thing is going to grow on a lot of people. It just looks... badass.

EDIT: It's like the first time I saw The Rock. I thought his head was too small and his face was stupid. Now I love Dwayne Johnson.

New comment by rjplatte in "The 40% Keyboard"

rjplatte — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:05:58 +0000

Absolutely love my Planck. I was going to build more keebs, but it's perfect for my needs, and my wrists feel infinitely better.

Another excellent solution is the XD75, which is ortholinear, but puts a number pad between QWERT and YUIOP. The spacing is absolutely great.

New comment by rjplatte in "Show HN: Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects"

rjplatte — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:45:28 +0000

Disagree strongly. Functional understanding is how I learn best, and this is perfect for me.

New comment by rjplatte in "Recordings of Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe restored more than a century later"

rjplatte — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 05:24:29 +0000

Whoa, never heard anyone talk about my ancestors before! My great-great grandmother was Passamaquoddy, and absolutely nobody knows who they are.

New comment by rjplatte in "$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants"

rjplatte — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:48:51 +0000

Yeah, NYC is rich as hell. There's simply enough cash to go around, so this can work. In my small town, this would kill so many small businesses.

New comment by rjplatte in "How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch"

rjplatte — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:45:51 +0000

It tastes far better, and as long as basic hygiene is followed, is very clean, too.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?"

rjplatte — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:46:42 +0000

Thinkpad X-series is the alternative with a more durable build and a comparable pointing device. I would recommend any Thinkpad, but the X series is absolutely fantastic.

New comment by rjplatte in "How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch"

rjplatte — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:39:43 +0000

American raw milk is some of the best, though. I love my Amish raw milk. Some of the most nutritious stuff you can get.

New comment by rjplatte in "Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game"

rjplatte — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:16:54 +0000

Here's the story:

Tesla circumvents some dinosaur regulations

It suddenly makes sense

Chrysler pays $TSLAQ to whine about it

Everyone realizes it works really well

Repeat ad vomitum.

New comment by rjplatte in "Tesla Acquires Canadian Battery Specialist, Hibar Systems"

rjplatte — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:11:14 +0000

Because A/C lines are more efficient than either oil or batteries.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:41:00 +0000

CEO doesn't like "the cloud", and VC is obviously that to him. I do use it locally, but that's about all.

Yes, I just wrote an EDI exporter in Ruby for Medicaid services, working on one for MCOs now. Thankfully we don't have to import EDI, or I'd go nuts.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:36:52 +0000

Well, yeah, no. Family is leaving the country, S/O got kicked out, and I have a Great Pyrenees.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:31:53 +0000

He thinks it's all cloud based. It's sad, yes.

I honestly enjoy the work when I know what's going on. We have a lot of unique problems to solve, and I have gotten positive changes made, as well as some really good weeks where I pounded out some good code, but other times it's slow, sad, and frustrating.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:29:27 +0000

I'm in a small city, where not much work is available. I need to pad my resume a little more to make the work I do more attractive, but the reality is that LAMP devs aren't in high demand near me. I apply to several jobs daily, but not much is around. I'd appreciate pointers on how to improve my prospects, but the last place I interviewed was a seedy adult entertainment company, and I wouldn't have taken an offer if they begged, simply for personal reasons.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:18:56 +0000

I'm studying hard, but learning new stuff while learning other new stuff is hard.

New comment by rjplatte in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

rjplatte — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:14:29 +0000

I'm the sole developer working on my current project, which is overhauling a massive DOS era application, as well as overhauling an early 2000s era CRM/business management tool, that almost all of our work happens through.

Did I mention that the DOS application is a HIPAA billing application that must meet all HIPAA guidelines as well as write EDI X12 billing files?

I'm very junior, been coding for ~5 years, 3 professionally, but this is my first real dumpster fire. We were about to hire a second developer, but turns out he had a record. Not for just anything, which we don't really worry about, but for embezzlement on the healthcare billing application he used to own. So, no. No can do.

So now poor 18-year-old me is knee-deep in a ton of shit I don't understand, working on non-version-controlled code, having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO, and trying to get details out of my older supervisor who built the code we're using, but he's near retirement and has so many vacation days saved up that he spends maybe 10 days a month in the office. I honestly can't blame him, but I either need resources to help me deal with legacy code, or a nice entry-level rails job, because I want to finish learning rails.

New comment by rjplatte in "During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man"

rjplatte — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:34:20 +0000

This article is trying to say that because the theatre used beards as a symbol of manliness, the entire male identity revolved around beards. This is ridiculous.

Hoopskirts were used to represent matronly women in early American theatre: therefore women gathered around these laughable garments as a symbol of their femininity.

New comment by rjplatte in "I miss Facebook"

rjplatte — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:22:10 +0000

You don't? I generally wear long sleeves, but I prefer to be comfortable at concerts.

New comment by rjplatte in "You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him"

rjplatte — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:04:02 +0000

> They know the government has everybody's best interest at heart, and that if something is classified, it's probably classified for your own good.

I really hope you're being facetious

New comment by rjplatte in "Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars"

rjplatte — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:46:49 +0000

I can't wait for blockchain ride-sharing.

Never mind https://www.iride.io/