hobojones · HackerTrans

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

How does the touchpad perform? I'd love to move away from Apple, but don't want to spend the money on a laptop to be disappointed with that aspect. My experience with non-Apple touchpads has been sub-par so far (looking at you Dell), and it's one of the factors that keeps me ensconced in the Apple ecosystem.

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Location: Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Oregon, Washington) Technologies: Python, JavaScript, OOP, ServiceNow, Selenium, Jenkins, Linux, Teradata, Ansible, git, Perl, shell script. Resume: Upon request Email: nate.beach [at] gmail.com

Two years experience as a professional software engineer, another seven as a Linux admin.

I'm a self-taught software engineer working to fully automate what are currently complex, human run software upgrades. In less than a year I've become a key member of my current team and am a scrum team lead.

I'm passionate about improving code quality and tools, automation, and creating standardized, repeatable processes through software.

As a self-taught engineer, I'm always seeking out new areas to grow and expand my understanding of the field. I'm relatively agnostic about where or what my next move will be as long as there's ample room to learn and sharpen my skillset.

I spend a fair amount of my spare time writing software. Most of my side projects begin with the phrase "I understand how this works in theory..." I'm currently teaching myself Go.

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

If you're interested in CSNY history, I highly recommend checking out the Best Show side podcast, "So Far," which recaps CSNY and related albums year by year.

As someone who was aware of CSNY and knew some of the more popular Neil Young stuff, it's been a great way to explore their catalogs in a somewhat directed manner. https://thebestshow.libsyn.com/so-far-episode-one-19691970

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

A few years back while working as a Linux admin I sent this to a newish co-worker who was struggling. They were an older Windows/DOS person and had little familiarity with UNIX. I thought this would be an easy way to practice completing tasks via shell and to demonstrate the possibility therein. I checked in a few weeks later and my co-worker never went past looking at the first page and saying 'This looks neat' - unsurprisingly they were let go about two months after I left.

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

The NCR/Walmart relationship was fairly strained during my tenure. Given the sheer number of stores/sites that Walmart had and NCR's own problems, it was not always possible to provide the quality of service people might expect, especially with a smile. From a FE perspective, working on networking gear at Walmart meant that you were out at 11pm at night (typically after working 10-11 hours already and spending an hour or two onsite waiting for the part to arrive via courier) and your primary concern was to get the job done and get back home. The worst was to plug a switch in, watch it not power up, and realize you'd need to be back in the same spot at three or four hours later to try again.

Walmart must have been an interesting place to work during the late 90s, early 2000s - I imagine that most everywhere they had to solve problems at scale before scale was a considered a thing. I'd be very interested to see how the solutions created in that period match to best-practices today, especially since outside of the telecom or perhaps defense worlds there probably wasn't much prior art.

As for the Perl application, I probably shouldn't say since I'm still employed at the same company and I know coworkers who read HN. If you're interested, DM me and I can at least provide the company name and some basic details.

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

In the early 2000s I was working as a field engineer installing/replacing/fixing network equipment for Walmart at all hours. It's pretty neat to hear the other side of the process! If I remember correctly there was some policy that would automatically turn off switch ports that found new, unrecognized devices active on the network for an extended period of time, which meant store managers complaining to me about voip phones that didn't function when moved or replaced.

hobojones

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I've been told that NOAA uses tape to stream time series weather data into long-running simulations.

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