menriquez - Hackdot

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014) on Monday September 01, 2014 @12:09PM (#8253523)

Central Florida Yes Yes PHP, LAMP, SQL, C/C++, JS, & more markenriquez.tekcities.com mrk.enriquez [at] gmail [dot] com

Re:Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @02:04PM (#8174191)

any chance of sharing the repos?

I like slig's idea of making a CV version of this...

Re:Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @01:14PM (#8173948)

beautiful! a great idea.

Re:Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @11:35AM (#8173360)

http://www.tcpdf.org/

i've been using it for years.

Re:Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (1998) ... on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:05AM (#8167553)

it's called "office politics" in a nutshell, and its constantly hovering around all workplaces.

i don't think it's possible to eliminate these sort of biases from group interactions...i personally think there will always be a bell curve of dislikes/likes among managers who see over a large group of individuals.

that's why it often pays, esp. in this day and age, to keep your employment options open.

Re:How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machin... on Friday August 08, 2014 @03:10PM (#8154535)

amen...exactly...i just never hear this point brought up.

Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:56AM (#8153421)

then take the cash, move on, and don't look back...in 6 months you will barely remember this whole event.

startups are risky...high risk high reward...it didn't work out but man, if you were good enough to be hired like that you can find 100's of opportunities.

Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:34AM (#8153294)

your not fucked...there is basically an unlimited amount of opportunity out there for what we do.

trust me...i KNOW fucked...i got caught with some recreational substances a few years back and am probation for three felony possession charges. 25y+ of software development and it's impossible..IMPOSSIBLE..for me to get past any HR for ANY decent job.

so chill out...enjoy a week off...and get hired next.

Re:How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machin... on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @10:08PM (#8145950)

> in theory, you just need time, shelter, and access to a cheap computer to become genuinely prosperous

AND the desire...i think that's what a lot of evangelists seem to leave out of the equation.

personally, I think learning code is almost identical to learning to play a musical instrument. It is a very solitary development and THAT'S what is the biggest barrier to entry.

a lot of people just don't like working alone on things...imo

Re:Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker on Saturday July 12, 2014 @08:03PM (#8026164)

"All the evidence suggests that communication between people by whatever means, far from simply accomplishing its purpose, invariably breeds the need for more.)"

hmmmmn...ya think?

Re:Show HN: an online shop that bargains with you on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:09AM (#7458258)

> Because I totally would remember this and am much more likely to return at a later time.

i would totally remember what a waste of my time it was, so yes in that sense you are right.

Re:Show HN: an online shop that bargains with you on Monday March 24, 2014 @09:32AM (#7458073)

dumb...pointless...the obvious strategy is just offer $1 until you reach the price floor.

Re:The climate change deniers have won on Monday March 24, 2014 @09:22AM (#7458033)

hmmm...only 7 paragraphs in i had to invoke Goodwin's law and stop reading his screed.

Re:_why's site is back up and this is the "About Me" [unclear if it is... on Thursday March 06, 2014 @08:53PM (#7357992)

yeah dude sure....you know how many people make this pledge every day? esp. after a tragic event or seeing a friend lose a wife or a job or financial security or succumb to drugs or something?

you're going to find very quickly its much harder to change then it is to blog.

best of luck tho...and I mean it...I'm not a hater

Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @03:42PM (#7300343)

"...but it's not particularly idiomatic and the Rust elite would sneer at me."

OMFG..and in this day and age is soooooo much more important not to be sneered at by the "elite" then it is to have working code...

man do i miss the days when programming was about getting stuff working not worrying about the political and social impact of how your style was...

Re:Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK on Monday February 03, 2014 @04:20PM (#7173573)

buy your kids a under $50 android tablet and keep the Nexus 7 away from them!

Re:Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK on Monday February 03, 2014 @04:18PM (#7173558)

Plex has been a pleasant surprise to me...im wondering how the release of this api is going to improve the usability of it

Re:Interviewing a front-end developer on Thursday January 30, 2014 @08:39AM (#7150564)

"That said, I have a "I could learn that but I have stuff to ship" mindset about Javascript"

amen bro...amen.

Re:Our Culture of Exclusion (or, why I'm not going to *conf) on Thursday January 30, 2014 @08:31AM (#7150540)

"It's sort of like high school is repeating itself."

welcome to life dude, get over yourself.

Re:How LinkedIn screwed up our friendship on Monday December 09, 2013 @10:38PM (#6878839)

LinkedIn is a virus.