nathan_douglas

    Location: Ohio, US (ET)
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Rust, JS/TS, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Flux and Argo, a whole bunch of other DevOps/Infra stuff, random backend stuff, Linux sysadmin, whatever's on the plate.
    Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
    Email: See résumé.
    GitHub: https://github.com/ndouglas
    Website: https://darkdell.net/

I tend to be the guy that gets locked in a room with a shitty job no one else wants to figure out, and then I come out two (days|weeks|months|years) later with grayer hair and wild, bloodshot eyes, but with the mission accomplished.

I like science and I like weird shit. I'm trying to grow and get as good as I can be, and I'd love to work on something interesting and really difficult with really smart people.

I'm an absolute idiot but I have some good points too. Strong interests in complexity science, ideonomy, and a few other quasi-heterodox things.

    Location: Ohio
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No (but see below)
    Technologies: Kubernetes / Terraform / Ansible / Serverless / AWS / Rust / Bash / PHP / Python / JS / TS / C / Clojure / etc, happy to learn more
    Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
    Email: See résumé
    Site: https://darkdell.net/ 

I'm a generalist software engineer with most of my experience (14YOE professional) in backend, platform, infra, and DevOps stuff. I'm currently employed and love where I am and what I do, but I intend to relocate to the EU in 2028 and my job (federal contracting) is incompatible with that goal.

I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.

I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.

I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.

*EDIT*: I mean "I'd love to connect" IF you're not just trying to sell me something - especially your shitty AI résumé- or interview-prep services, you hacks.

Are you finding the French decks helpful? I'm also trying to learn French (not using spaced repetition _per se_ but Pimsleur [which does use spaced repetition, really], InnerFrench, and reading [currently reading _Le Trône de fer_]).

FSRS is really cool. I'm trying to use it and a modified flashcard system to learn more abstract computer science and higher math. I hadn't considered it as a way of learning Chess - that's really interesting. I'm thinking about expanding my system to cover ear-training, birdsong recognition, a few other things like that.

I ended up giving up on it because my right shoulder is damaged from rheumatoid arthritis. Go where I could not, anon291. May your reeds be clean and your bellows free of mildew.

Really dig the sound of the first one, though all of these are really cool.

You're probably good if:

    - you're actually listing a job
    - the job pays money
    - the job pays a sane amount of money for the region in which you're hiring
    - you're actually trying to hire someone for the job
    - you don't demand they jump through stupid hoops like write an essay about Stendhal's views of modernity or your favorite unrolled loop from the GNU standard library
    - you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it
    - the business model isn't obviously delusional ("we're going to feed the global poor with AI, we just need to, uh, figure out some niggling little details")
    - you reply to inquiries and applications

Every day we stray further from the light of our lord and savior, Dr. Nicole Forsgren...

If you run it in a cluster, does it become a Lemon Party?

There are no incentive structures (besides possibly "posterity") to encourage anyone to see past their noses. In fact, hardly anyone at any level of any organization, public or private, is able to operate with a real longterm, sustainable outlook. They'd get shitcanned for trying to plan ahead, even if they were intellectually equipped for that.

That's actually blowing my mind. Thank you so much for making this comment.