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jawmes9

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:33PM (#31243312)
Location: Kauai, HI-USA

Remote: Required

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: React, Next.js, Typescript, C++, Python (Some Docker as well)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesthesken/

Email: [email protected]

I'm a software engineer that's worked as an independent tech consultant for the past two years, and formerly as a systems engineer for a US defense contractor.

Most searches I do now are search + {nameOfForum}

Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I always append "hackernews" to my search

Re:Ask HN: What makes you want to keep on reading README? on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:46PM (#30796397)
Examples and screenshots are my favorite. I don't like it when there are too many distracting emojis.
So excellent, happy to see you're open to contributions too!
Kind of similar: https://tiresize.com/calculator/

I've used it for buying my truck's tires in the past.

I'm in the same boat, just got through with their solidity tutorial. Great course paired with: https://cryptozombies.io
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? on Saturday January 01, 2022 @12:16PM (#29760411)
What's the best way to contact you? It's been ~2 years since my last robotics project, but interested to learn more.
> regulation attention-grabbing industries, just like we regulated cigarettes

There is surely a good argument to be made for regulating social media for certain age groups.

Re:Death by Coconut on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:21PM (#29642257)
I was taught to always look up when you are under coconut trees
Re:Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:48PM (#29352879)
Love to see Bulma in the mix, it is my favorite CSS framework. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Will many small businesses be interested in this? on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:12PM (#28708655)
The justification I see often is helping with SEO as well
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:18PM (#27574381)
Using a Reddit API Wrapper [1] to collect comments from /r/wallstreetbets, and compare stock mentions to prices. Found a cool way to store historical stock data [2] (or any time series) - surprisingly haven't seen much discussion here about that.

[1]: https://psaw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https://github.com/man-group/arctic