Hacker News: robertcarter

New comment by robertcarter in "I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing"

robertcarter — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:53:56 +0000

Would you be willing to tell me more about your path to account executive and sales? I am considering such a path myself and it would be wonderful to talk with someone whose done this.

New comment by robertcarter in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

robertcarter — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:50:42 +0000

Mike Hill gives a good breakdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPjVgYDL6Y

I also enjoyed this comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofZ7xjGyI8

New comment by robertcarter in "SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired"

robertcarter — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:46:50 +0000

I wonder if the rates of firearm ownership in this country make it different than other countries that descend into madness.

New comment by robertcarter in "EmacsConf Live Now"

robertcarter — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:14:23 +0000

you have your config up anywhere?

New comment by robertcarter in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)"

robertcarter — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:07:34 +0000

care to share your .init etc, I still having figured how I want to couple the two

New comment by robertcarter in "Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility"

robertcarter — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:56:48 +0000

care to share your emacs config/setup ?

New comment by robertcarter in "Ask HN: As an adult introvertish nerd what makes you happy?"

robertcarter — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:10:45 +0000

Can you talk a little more about your experience studying in Germany? What is the application process like? If you went to school in the US how is the experience same/different? My wife is German and should we live there I would like to do some more college too

New comment by robertcarter in "Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality"

robertcarter — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:14:37 +0000

I don't own one but what about a purism laptop? https://puri.sm/

New comment by robertcarter in "Nice People Really Do Have More Fun"

robertcarter — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:39:02 +0000

I mitigate this by playing Soraka support

New comment by robertcarter in "Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy"

robertcarter — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:58:47 +0000

Reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke: "I was in a taxi when the driver said 'I love my job! I'm my own boss and nobody tells me what to do!'. I said 'Great. Now take a left here!' "

New comment by robertcarter in "Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering"

robertcarter — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:21:37 +0000

Can you provide some examples and/or the name of the packages etc. I've just started emacs and the way I use dired mode is too slow. In terminal I have a bunch of aliases for fast navigation. How do you do this in emacs?

New comment by robertcarter in "Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?"

robertcarter — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:47:04 +0000

I'm at the start of my career but am starting to notice some of the downsides you've experienced. Any advice on how to avoid some of the trappings?

New comment by robertcarter in "Spacemacs 0.105.0 released"

robertcarter — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:04:54 +0000

How long did it take you to convert? Did you relinquish vim key-bindings and cross to straight emacs? I still prefer out of habit vim keystrokes, but I'm having to relearn everything else (buffer navigation, searching, definition navigation etc)

New comment by robertcarter in "The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them"

robertcarter — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:07:10 +0000

Give the chrome extension OneTab a try

New comment by robertcarter in "Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything"

robertcarter — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:25:14 +0000

Is there a way to tab into the content for a query (right side column) instead of having to mouseover and scroll? Also it would be nice to be able to search the content area as well so I can more effectively jump to the material I think I need.

New comment by robertcarter in "Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life"

robertcarter — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:01:55 +0000

Maybe they wouldn't be interested in us. Certainly there are some people here on this Earth that I wouldn't want to meet (for instance some of my relatives).