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cowile2
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About cowile2
Desired Work: * prioritize career growth, hard problems, culture of excellence and kindness * prefer AI, bio, financial, hardware, or security startups * specifically want to get out of defense and aerospace * please email for complete details
Credentials: * B.Sc. Computer Engineering at MS&T 2016 * MENSA member
Sample Accomplishments:
L3 Technologies, Jan 2017 -- Feb 2019: * Fulfilled million-dollar contract adapting legacy C code for a new customer Ported networking and signal classifying code from VX Works to Linux Added support for new sensor hardware without changing upstream data format Constructed emulator of new sensor hardware for testing Traveled to customer site for integration and collaborative problem solving
Dynetics, Jun 2016 -- Aug 2016: * Saved hours of daily operator time developing graphical remote monitoring system Replaced workflow of manual ssh into individual machines Supported simultaneous multiple operator and remote systems Wrote in C++ with Qt for most possible maintainers after leaving
Personal occupations: * tweak personal workflow (OS, editor, email, calendar) * read fantasy, scifi, history, and economics * play piano * cook flavorful dishes * listen to podcasts
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Exactly. Good ads are a service to me that inform me of things I want to buy. They aren't tricking me into buying stuff. Sometimes I see an ad and immediately believe the product w…
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I have thought of that possibility, but find two things strange about it. 1. Half a dozen companies being dishonest in exactly the same way is tough to believe. It's too much coinc…
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Ask HN: How to Change Industries?
I left my job as a systems programmer at a large defense contractor back in February. After two years, I knew it wasn't where I wanted to be, and an ongoing merger squeezing budget…
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> Finding qualified programmers and having access to libraries so you don't reinvent the wheel. Lots of niche languages have the same problem, notably lisp, but it doesn't do to sa…
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Comment #15718120
A few of the words right now implicitly depend on machine word size to operate correctly. I could write versions that worked on 32-bit, but I don't have a 32-bit machine to test on…
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Comment #15718112
What are your metrics? What Forth is best at is boostrapping from bare metal to a reasonably high level language with the simplest design possible. Forth was first written at a tim…
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Comment #15718023
Hello, everyone. I would have responded sooner but I spend most of my workday in a closed network for security reasons (defense contractor), and don't have much internet access ove…
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