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krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

I'd love to find an entry-level or junior SWE role to grow in.

  Location: Wheaton, Illinois
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, PHP, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BryanHoffmanResumeMay2024.pdf
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)

I'm self-taught and that brings with it some gaps in my knowledge. I know I bring some value to the table, but I also know I've got a lot to learn. I'd love to find an entry-level or junior SWE role to grow in.

  Location: Wheaton, Illinois
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, PHP
  Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BryanHoffmanResumeMay2024.pdf
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005

I just stepped out and can offer another anecdotal verification here. This is about as prominent as a transit of Venus. It's really something!

krasotkinon Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)

Why do anarchists write programs using functional languages? Because they're stateless.

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

I'm self-taught and that brings with it some gaps in my knowledge. I know I bring some value to the table, but I also know I've got a lot to learn. I'd love to find an entry-level or junior SWE role to grow in.

  Location: Wheaton, Illinois
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, PHP
  Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BryanHoffmanResumeMay2024.pdf
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

I've been building websites since I was in grade school yet still I have no idea what I'm doing. Somehow I put together an interactive ROI calculator with Vue.js in a prior role but I also just learned that if you have an array of numbers 'nums' in vanilla JavaScript and call 'nums.sort()' it doesn't actually sort it in ascending order! I already got the executing 'rm -rf *' in production screw up out of the way. I'm looking for an entry level position or maybe something more junior than that. If you were entertained by this little spiel and you'd like to say "hi" send me an email! I'd love to chat with you.

  Location: Wheaton, Illinois
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: LAMP, WordPress, Laravel
  Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bryan-Hoffman-Resume.docx
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

  Location: Chicago
  Remote: Yes
  Technologies: the humble LAMP stack
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

I've been building websites since I was in grade school yet still I have no idea what I'm doing. Somehow I put together an interactive ROI calculator with Vue.js in a prior role but I also just learned that if you have an array of numbers 'nums' in vanilla JavaScript and call 'nums.sort()' it doesn't actually sort it in ascending order! I already got the executing 'rm -rf *' in production screw up out of the way. I'm looking for an entry level position or maybe something more junior than that. If you were entertained by this little spiel and you'd like to say "hi" send me an email! I'd love to chat with you.

  Location: Wheaton, Illinois
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: LAMP, WordPress, Laravel
  Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bryan-Hoffman-Resume.docx
  Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com

krasotkinon Ask HN: Is There a Place for Generalists

Why would we throw the conventional wisdom of a diverse portfolio out in this instance? Is how we invest money so drastically different from how we invest our time?

krasotkinon What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?

Consensus is not a necessary condition for truth. An idea can have no one believing it and be correct, and another idea can have everyone believing it and be wrong.

krasotkinon A portable wind turbine the size of a water bottle

Very cool. Is this open hardware? That is, something public you could download and 3d print? My mind is already buzzing with half-baked ideas of how I might utilize this in my garden.

krasotkinon Ask HN: Teach me something new

I have experienced this several times and almost never have a headache. I definitely can't read what's beyond/obscured by the scotoma. The first time it happened was during a test in high school and the splotch grew until I was forced to read the questions in my peripheral.

I have an anecdote that corroborates your observation that cognitive experiences are more complicated then assumed: I was once very, very sleep deprived. I became aware that my body was reacting to something, as if there was a jump scare in a movie, I unconsciously flinched and pulled away from something without knowing why, and then a perceptual moment later, I heard a loud noise caused by something falling to the floor.

krasotkinon Show HN: I created a collection of useful websites

It looks nice. The "Midomi" tile has a minor spelling error: "dentify" and the utm parameters sometimes suggest that this website is an email.

krasotkinon Ask HN: Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations?

>quality, honest feedback

Friends, but not in general. Friends can be a source of feedback aside from just publishing it. Full disclosure: I'm on team just-publish-it.

>how does one know if the content's any good?

Just publish it!

>What's been your experience?

Comfortable obscurity so far.

>Do you know of any good resources

The War of Art

krasotkinon Show HN: I wrote a short book on web applications with PHP for beginners

A pdf can be downloaded here: https://bryanhoffman.github.io/PHP-For-The-Web--Enough-to-be...

My Process and Tools: I started by writing in plain text with vim. I found [bookdown](https://bookdown.org/) and I had some prior experience with R so I decided to try it out. Using bookdown, it turned out I didn't have to use any R at all. I used [Rstudio's bookdown-demo repo](https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo) to get started right away. I converted my txt into Rmd files in Rstudio and used the console to build html and pdf files of the book. The html files use a git-book format. LaTeX is necessary for the pdf generation, and can be used in the .Rmd files but I didn't need this ability for this text.

krasotkinon Ask HN: How to pull off a successful career switch?

I'm glad you shared. It's funny as CNC/fabrication is something appealing to me right now. Our stories might end up thematically parallel but reversed.

krasotkinon Ask HN: How to pull off a successful career switch?

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your advice. My "pipe dream," if you will, is that someone here knows of something I haven't yet even considered and will suggest it. I'm also hoping that people have stories of when they jumped from point A and landed at point B, whatever those were. It's nice to hear those sorts of stories, and maybe I or somebody else here will read their story and it will help.

krasotkinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

Location: West Chicago Suburbs

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LAMP/LEMP, WordPress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, cowsay

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13CyJwmeUQndwT7BFonwZuAnM...

Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail

krasotkinon China Plans to Feed 80M with ‘Seawater Rice’

When I was a university student, I taught a lot of my friends how to cook simple things. I made pasta for my roommates and taught them how to make it themselves. One roommate was getting the hang of things, and would assist me. He went to start rice, and made the rather fair assumption that it'd be just like making pasta, so he salted the water a similar amount. When the water had cooked off, it was some very salty rice we had.

krasotkinon Ask HN: If you were asked to build a modern math syllabus what will you include?

Definitely not without calculus! I'm imagining an approach focusing on numerical methods that would have students working on problem sets in computer labs e.g. a first problem set might include simulating a 1-D heat equation using the finite difference method.

krasotkinon The “agencies of one” storm is coming

I romanticize doing something like this, but my lack of experience in sales and lack of knowledge in general business dealings prevent me from going at it alone. I'd like a partner who complements my skill set. Reiterating another commenter's point, being on call 24/7 doesn't sound fun either.

krasotkinon Ask HN: If you were asked to build a modern math syllabus what will you include?

Gilbert Strang advocates for more emphasis on linear algebra over calculus. Linear algebra is incredibly powerful stuff without even adding a computer into the consideration. The overlap here is so cool to me. Finite Elements, PDEs, and all sorts of engineering methods/tools live in the space where computer science and linear algebra overlap.

krasotkinon Scientists have developed biodegradable printed paper batteries

Does the potato battery count too?

krasotkinon Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (December 2021)

I was in a similar situation. They gave me a November date, but the 5th circuit stayed OSHA's ETS so they gave it up, at least temporarily. I absolutely want to get out of the suburbs and start homesteading.

krasotkinon How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can weigh in-- I'm just speculating from a lay perspective. The bottle configuration likely means less states are available due to the confines of the system, and these states are higher energy. I'm thinking something like the Casimir effect, where the boundaries of the system impose conditions that limit the total number of states. Could this explain the discrepancy? Something that could potentially corroborate this idea is comparing those boundary conditions. Do neutrons in larger "bottles" decay slower, and neutrons in smaller "bottles" decay into protons even faster?

krasotkinon Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk

> half a trillion USD is a tiny market What?