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foreigner··on Bunk beds in aircraft cabins: the realistic prospects
OMG I want this so bad at the economy level. The TU Delft / Flying V design looks totally workable. Take my money!
foreigner··on Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
What is the API to produce SVG?
foreigner··on 80 Level: AI Simulation Platform Where Characters Make Their Own Decisions
Solution: AI NPCs for the neutral or benevolent roles, and the human players are the villains.
foreigner··on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
These machines are networked and covered in cameras, so Waymo has these people all on video, right?
foreigner··on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
Only slightly more reliable method: unplug the printer and throw the computer out the window.
foreigner··on Ask HN: Is it really so dull to work in huge company?
Yes that was my experience as well, except I went to a big company straight out of school so didn't know that it could be different at a small company.
foreigner··on A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
National Parks in the US are typically vast open spaces far away from where most people live.
foreigner··on Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)
I do this too
foreigner··on A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
I thought about the same thing. Trying this in the US would be a recipe for getting shot.
foreigner··on The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision
The stained glass windows of the cathedral in Winchester, UK were smashed in the civil war. After the war they picked up the pieces and rebuilt the windows, but they no longer make a coherent picture. It would be amazing to use tech like this to reassemble them properly.
foreigner··on When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter?
What is the name of your company? I'm looking for a bank to partner with.
foreigner··on Jodorowsky's Dune – Official Trailer HD (2014)
It just have been a decade since I've read Hyperion and I'm still scared of the Shrike.
foreigner··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
I depends on this, but Google Calendar only lets you add a second time zone. They don't take up much space, I'd love to have 3 or 4. Has anybody figured out a way to do that?
foreigner··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Expert in NodeJS, experienced with AWS, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, web technologies, and many more

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-paterson/

Email: whoishiring@roypaterson.com

I'm looking for a full time Senior Software Engineer role, either as a team lead or an individual contributor. I've been working fully remotely for years.

I have 20+ years of software development experience working with a variety of industries and technologies. I've led teams and mentored engineers. I've filed patents. I've taken a startup to a successful exit. I've founded my own bootstrapped startup. Imagine what I could do for you!

foreigner··on The merge vs. rebase debate
This. It's a dirty lie, that's not what actually happened!
foreigner··on I'm a world champion pea thrower
I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS).

[0] https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships

foreigner··on Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.” Stephen Covey
foreigner··on Indexing a billion pages
Do they use Common Crawl?
foreigner··on Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
IMO Git's central enabling technology was disk space getting so cheap you could afford to have a copy of the entire repository and all it's history locally. I'm not sure what the next iteration of that would be... maybe always-on networking, so you're constantly consuming changes from all collaborators without having to manually pull them? What useful things could we do with that information?
foreigner··on The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)
My tiny, 5 foot tall, 90 pound mother _loved_ buffets. When she walked in you could almost see the owners doing a cash-money victory dance.
foreigner··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)
Location: Winchester, UK

Remote: Yes, or partial onsite within the UK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Expert in NodeJS, experienced with AWS, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, web technologies, and many more

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-paterson/

Email: whoishiring@roypaterson.com

I'm looking for a full time Senior Software Engineer role, either as a team lead or an individual contributor. I can work fully remotely in the UK timezone, or come in to an office in the UK a couple times a month.

I have 20+ years of software development experience working with a variety of industries and technologies. I've led teams and mentored engineers. I've filed patents. I've taken a startup to a successful exit. I've founded my own bootstrapped startup. Imagine what I could do for you!

foreigner··on How to easily pay a single employee in another country
Someone is going to have a tax headache. Either the company (for an "employee"), or the worker (if they're a "consultant"). You can outsource the tax headache to an "employer of record" company in the worker's country, but you can't make it go away.
foreigner··on $20k bounty was claimed
I recommend using the lint-staged tool so Prettier only runs on every save on changed files. It makes a huge difference on large projects.
foreigner··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
| Last but not least: Get a free, hand-stitched tattoo from our co-founder, Johannes!

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foreigner··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
It would be amusing to make a careers page with an intentional bug that candidates have to fix in order to see the job openings...
foreigner··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)
Location: Winchester, UK

Remote: Yes, or partial onsite within the UK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Expert in NodeJS, experienced with AWS, Javascript, SQL, web technologies, and many more

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-paterson/

Email: whoishiring@roypaterson.com

I'm looking for a full time Senior Software Engineer role, either as a team lead or an individual contributor. I can work fully remotely in the UK timezone, or come in to an office in the UK a couple times a month.

I have 20+ years of software development experience working with a variety of industries and technologies. I've led teams and mentored junior engineers. I've filed patents. I've taken a startup to a successful exit. I've founded my own bootstrapped startup. Imagine what I could do for you!

foreigner··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
I'm Meta's defense, a Python and a Panda trained to work together would be really dangerous!
foreigner··on PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno
Shout out to https://www.npmjs.com/package/sql-template-strings, which does a similar template string SQL escaping standalone.
foreigner··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
As a beginner I thought of the database as a backend for the app. Now I think of the app as a frontend for the database. :-D
foreigner··on Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn
"Search and rescue" is the standard excuse anytime someone invents a nifty new robot. I would love to know how many robots are actually really used in search and rescue.
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