ritchiea · HackerTrans

5 years agodiscuss

He's lived a different life than nearly anyone else. Certainly so caught up in his responsibilities to Facebook that he's been unable to grow and change and branch out and fail, and be rejected and forced to reinvent or repurpose himself the way most people do. It's impossible to imagine what my life would be like or how my perspective would be different if I was caught in a bubble of a project I started in my late teens turning into a near trillion dollar success that only grew and grew from the moment I started on it.

ritchiea

5 years agodiscuss

He’s certainly determined whatever his true self is, it’s not good for business.

ritchiea

5 years agodiscuss

I agree with this in principle but in practice code I write that’s quick & easy and not very readable is usually not understandable by me in a few months either. So if it’s a personal project I hope to last I still want to keep it simple with my code.

ritchiea

6 years agodiscuss

Has Firefox fixed the bug that made it eat up resources, crank the fans and go nuts on retina MacBook Pros?

ritchiea

7 years agodiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast)

Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable, simple code and refactoring for performance as necessary. I'm good at communicating with other stakeholders, including non-technical execs/managers, thinking about the business problem and advocating for the user.

Most of my experience is with startups and small businesses. But I also have done a smattering of big company work including at the New York Times and Cleversafe ($1B onsite file storage service acquired by IBM). Over the past few years I have worked for a niche social media company, a B2B fashion supply chain management company and on a one-off art installation project for Davos.

Long time Rails dev (since Rails 2), more recently I've worked with Node.js/Express & React as well. Occasional smalltime open source contributor (most recently to KillBill a billing & payment platform). Not dev-ops per say but I have experience managing deployments with AWS, Digital Ocean, and Heroku. All that said I typically choose my work based on the teams and projects rather than the tech stack.

Github: https://github.com/ritchiea

Resume: http://www.andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf

ritchiea

7 years agodiscuss

More on my work background in my freelance posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20089657

ritchiea

7 years agodiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast)

Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable, simple code and refactoring for performance as necessary. I'm good at communicating with other stakeholders, including non-technical execs/managers, thinking about the business problem and advocating for the user.

Most of my experience is with startups and small businesses. But I also have done a smattering of big company work including at the New York Times and Cleversafe ($1B onsite file storage service acquired by IBM). Over the past few years I have worked for a niche social media company, a B2B fashion supply chain management company and on a one-off art installation project for Davos.

Long time Rails dev (since Rails 2), more recently I've worked with Node.js/Express & React as well. Occasional smalltime open source contributor (most recently to KillBill a billing & payment platform). Not dev-ops per say but I have experience managing deployments with AWS, Digital Ocean, and Heroku. All that said I typically choose my work based on the teams and projects rather than the tech stack.

Github: https://github.com/ritchiea

Resume: http://www.andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf

ritchiea

7 years agodiscuss

Location: Berlin, Germany (English opportunities only please, US-citizen)

Remote: Possibly? Depends if I can reconcile that with my visa

Willing to relocate: Not before April 2020

Technologies: Rails, Node, Bootstrap, Sass, Ruby, Javascript, more recently React & Kubernettes

Résumé/CV: http://www.andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf

Email: ritchiea [at] gmail.com

ritchiea

8 years agodiscuss

A few fiction recommendations:

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read.

Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often high concept but reveal a lot about human nature & motivations.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty is a funny and also literary novel by an author who writes endlessly clever, joyful and energetic prose.

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