robertcarter
Re:I Spent 5 Years in DevOps. Solutions Engineering Gave Me What I Was...
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:53AM (#46921674)
Would you be willing to tell me more about your path to account executive and sales? I am considering such a path myself and it would be wonderful to talk with someone whose done this.
Re:Why are there no good dinosaur films?
on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:50PM (#44494005)
Mike Hill gives a good breakdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPjVgYDL6Y
I also enjoyed this comparison:
Re:SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees wer...
on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:46AM (#43128832)
I wonder if the rates of firearm ownership in this country make it different than other countries that descend into madness.
Re:Tell HN: EmacsConf Live Now
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:14AM (#38505236)
you have your config up anywhere?
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:07PM (#34069744)
care to share your .init etc, I still having figured how I want to couple the two
Re:Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility
on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:56PM (#19409163)
care to share your emacs config/setup ?
Re:Ask HN: As an adult introvertish nerd what makes you happy?
on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:10AM (#16139289)
Can you talk a little more about your experience studying in Germany? What is the application process like? If you went to school in the US how is the experience same/different? My wife is German and should we live there I would like to do some more college too
Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality
on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:14AM (#14710110)
I don't own one but what about a purism laptop? https://puri.sm/
Re:Nice People Really Do Have More Fun
on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:39PM (#12762655)
I mitigate this by playing Soraka support
Re:Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy
on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:58PM (#11340935)
Reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke: "I was in a taxi when the driver said 'I love my job! I'm my own boss and nobody tells me what to do!'. I said 'Great. Now take a left here!' "
Re:Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering
on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:21PM (#11305379)
Can you provide some examples and/or the name of the packages etc. I've just started emacs and the way I use dired mode is too slow. In terminal I have a bunch of aliases for fast navigation. How do you do this in emacs?
Re:Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:47PM (#11013505)
I'm at the start of my career but am starting to notice some of the downsides you've experienced. Any advice on how to avoid some of the trappings?
Re:Spacemacs 0.105.0 released
on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:04PM (#10840779)
How long did it take you to convert? Did you relinquish vim key-bindings and cross to straight emacs? I still prefer out of habit vim keystrokes, but I'm having to relearn everything else (buffer navigation, searching, definition navigation etc)
Re:The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them
on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @04:07PM (#9887667)
Give the chrome extension OneTab a try
Re:Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:25AM (#7858029)
Is there a way to tab into the content for a query (right side column) instead of having to mouseover and scroll? Also it would be nice to be able to search the content area as well so I can more effectively jump to the material I think I need.
Re:Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life
on Sunday July 01, 2012 @11:01PM (#4187090)
Maybe they wouldn't be interested in us. Certainly there are some people here on this Earth that I wouldn't want to meet (for instance some of my relatives).