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carlysagan

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carlysagan··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
Location: Seattle, WA and remote

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MCNP, Python/Pycharm, SQL, MATLAB, Flask API, HTML/CSS/JS, Git, C++, cluster computing, navigation algorithms, automation of engineering tasks, Kalman filters, complex robotic control, physics models, radiation effects, plasma physics, patent filing, DoD grants, pitch decks

Résumé/CV:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-9cXPTbVPwiDn33CmrvFkHd...

Email: hunt@astroplane.org

Summary: PhD in plasma physics, 10+ years of software development and cluster computing, interested in impactful software development, algorithm development, software engineering with ties to environmentalism, plasma physics applications, connecting with other female founders or environmentally-driven companies

carlysagan··on Leaving LinkedIn
I clicked this bc I thought it was about users leaving Linkedin and was excited lol. But I listened and he pitched a 5 year plan solution to fix bad code??! Come on, this guy may never get hired again after that. Listening to this, I felt outrage at the concept of white men feeling like they can just quit when a company doesn't follow their slow engineering model. Huh?? I feel annoyed with stupid software and product decisions all the time and that's just how it is everywhere. All of capitalism and all of tech is do-it-as-fast-and-cheap-as-possible. Hello? Oh right, I looked at his Linkedin and he never had any formal training in software or engineering and has a MS in Divinty, so goodluck bruh, back to the bible for you.
carlysagan··on Jessica Livingston (2015)
It sounds to me like you are admitting that women often provide the crucial ideas and then are dis-credited. What direction would any work take without the initial idea? Lol. Even when a female has the idea and does all the work (ah-hem), a man will come along, steal the idea, claim it as his own, and suddenly be the one with a multi-million dollar seed deal or Nobel Prize or whatever. That is the reality that I have seen over and over.
carlysagan··on Jessica Livingston (2015)
This is honestly infuriating. Why wouldn't you realize that all of the characteristics of Jessica are why women are pushed out of the start-up world from the very first day they start? Why wouldn't you realize from this experience that women are the ones providing all the reasons and ideas for why a startup might be successful, but then are swept under the rug as a wife/family member/outside consultant/etc?