Norfair

129 karma · joined October 10, 2015

Norfairon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2017)

    Location: remote
    Remote: yes
    Willing to relocate: yes
    Technologies: Haskell, java, latex, shell
    Résumé/CV: cs-syd.eu/cv/cv.pdf
    Email: see cs-syd.eu/contact

Norfairon Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

Come on, you could have called it TeXtonic, what a missed opportunity for a pun.

Norfairon Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

I enjoy wearing suits to work. Sadly, at some tech companies it is a bad idea nowadays. I wore a suit to work at Google and Facebook and regularly got called security on. I made sure to always keep my badge close.

Norfairon Ask HN: What do you do when you run into poor or deceptive customer service?

I use 'hess' to find all the email addresses of their company that I can possibly find on their website and start emailing all their employees every few minutes using a little script and a cron job.

Norfairon Types of Engineers

No. Stop putting people in boxes. People don't fit into boxes. They're people, not rats.

Norfairon Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

Haskell