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killerbat00 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)

  Location: Madison, WI
  Remote: Yes - ideal
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, TypeScript, React, Python, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://bhm.sh/resume
  Email: bhm [at] brianmorrow.net

About: Full stack developer with ~8 years of experience in enterprise software development. I'm currently a Senior Software Developer at Epic building electronic medical record software with TypeScript, React, C#, and M. I've worn numerous hats, including: product lead, team lead, and mentor. I have experience leading teams & projects, designing large & scalable systems, and using user-centered design methodologies with end-users and customers to deliver appropriate solutions to the challenges they may be facing. Throughout my career I've learned and internalized the value of clear & effective communication, flexibility, accountability, and empathy. I'm looking for full stack opportunities at companies that are positively impacting their user's lives. I highly value the impact my work at Epic has on users and the patients they care for and I'm hoping to continue that trend.

killerbat00 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

Yep! man -k even has an ISO standard with which apropos is compliant https://www.mankier.com/1/apropos.mandoc#Standards

killerbat00 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

The English usage is borrowed from French![0] However, it doesn't look like the original author was French[1]. I shouldn't be, but I am quite surprised to see that the apropos command as we know it is 43 years old!

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apropos [1] https://www.mankier.com/1/apropos.mandoc#History

killerbat00 | 8 years ago | on: FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.)

A comment below explains exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14699219

killerbat00 | 8 years ago | on: 10 top talks of PyCon 2017 reviewed [audio]

I agree. He's got a great ability to drive conversations on Talk Python With Me that may be floundering due to a guest with little podcast experience. He also does a great job on Python Bytes with Brian Okken who is a less strong host in my opinion.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: The first web site

ibiblio also hosts a site claiming to be the world's first[1]. Berners-Lee used it as a demo at Hypertext '91. [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/archive/2013/07/forbes-unc-and-the-ol...

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth

Publicity, or just a crazy easy way to fund year end bonuses. Some of their previous holiday sales have been similarly silly.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth

It's not a donation. You are literally giving them money to dig a hole.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth

The money isn't going to charity. Check out the FAQ.

>Q: Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity? A: Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: PatientBank (YC S16) Is Creating a Unified Medical Record System

It appears that PatientBank acts as a decentralized medical records/Release of Information office that may communicate with a number of physicians and hospitals. I'm curious though, how are you collecting the medical records? Are these interfaced directly from EHRs, or some other method? Do you handle releasing to 3rd parties (legal, etc); the article seems to hint that it's directly to patients and immediate family. Lastly, when a patient has shared their records with a new physician via PatientBank, is there any functionality for exporting these records into the physician's organization's EHR? Or will relevant data need to be manually copied into the new chart?

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Crying

Just an FYI that there's a phone number in that screencap. I imagine most HN readers wouldn't exploit it, but better safe than sorry.

Edit: just realized it's Google voice so probably less of an issue.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Visual Basic Turns 25

I've seen that too (I imagine we work at the same place) and always wondered why it wasn't licensed to our organization. I know nothing about Windows architecture, but I'm always impressed with the backwards compatibility. The VB6 runtime is supported through Windows 10! And, although not officially supported, the VB6 IDE still installs and runs fine.

killerbat00 | 9 years ago | on: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic

If you update this to use window.location.href = url, you won't lose history :)

killerbat00 | 10 years ago | on: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rRv0tB...

killerbat00 | 10 years ago | on: How Schools Are Handling an 'Overparenting' Crisis

can you expand a bit on the damage you've felt?

killerbat00 | 10 years ago | on: Pip -t: A simple and transparent alternative to virtualenv in Python

> Looking at Javascript, tools like npm and Bower provide the easy, reliable and powerful package management capabilities which it feels like Python is missing. The key to their success? Both tools download a copy of the right versions of the right libraries, by default placing them in a special folder directly within your project's directory.

Isn't this exactly what virtualenv does anyway? Plus, with virtualenv you don't have to muck around in your $PYTHONPATH and you can still choose which Python version is installed for each virtualenv.

This article doesn't seem to explicitly mention any, but what are the compelling reasons to use pip over pyenv/virtualenv for project isolation? I guess using 1 tool to install dependencies and isolate your working environment is handy. I'm unsure if the overhead of virtualenv is so high that it offers a compelling reason to switch (at least for me).

killerbat00 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: PyCNN – Image Processing in Cellular Neural Networks

I initially interpreted the title as a Python API to CNN the television channel and was curious how that was implemented. But, after clicking on the link I actually learned a bit about something that seems pretty fascinating. So, thanks for that!

killerbat00 | 11 years ago | on: APIs.io – The API search engine

It might be nice from a usability perspective to only show the error message once. As it stands now, it's possible to continually search for a non-existing API and fill the screen with red errors [1]. (Not that this is a particularly compelling or realistic workflow or even worth fixing. They disappear within a few seconds anyway, which is nice.)

[1] http://imgur.com/dqZY8zW

killerbat00 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which Tiling Window Manager do you use?

I use dwm with dmenu on arch. The configuration is in C and it's incredibly lightweight.

[1]http://suckless.org/

killerbat00 | 12 years ago | on: iOS 7 colors

Ditto. I believe it's a combination of the small text width and the low contrast gray on white. Perhaps this looks great on retina displays but not my 1280x800 display.

http://imgur.com/dzdi7nF Chrome 30 on Arch Linux