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robertcarteron I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

Would you be willing to tell me more about your path to account executive and sales? I am considering such a path myself and it would be wonderful to talk with someone whose done this.

robertcarteron Why are there no good dinosaur films?

Mike Hill gives a good breakdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPjVgYDL6Y

I also enjoyed this comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofZ7xjGyI8

robertcarteron SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

I wonder if the rates of firearm ownership in this country make it different than other countries that descend into madness.

robertcarteron EmacsConf Live Now

you have your config up anywhere?

robertcarteron Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

care to share your .init etc, I still having figured how I want to couple the two

robertcarteron Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

care to share your emacs config/setup ?

robertcarteron Ask HN: As an adult introvertish nerd what makes you happy?

Can you talk a little more about your experience studying in Germany? What is the application process like? If you went to school in the US how is the experience same/different? My wife is German and should we live there I would like to do some more college too

robertcarteron Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality

I don't own one but what about a purism laptop? https://puri.sm/

robertcarteron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

I mitigate this by playing Soraka support

robertcarteron Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy

Reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke: "I was in a taxi when the driver said 'I love my job! I'm my own boss and nobody tells me what to do!'. I said 'Great. Now take a left here!' "

robertcarteron Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering

Can you provide some examples and/or the name of the packages etc. I've just started emacs and the way I use dired mode is too slow. In terminal I have a bunch of aliases for fast navigation. How do you do this in emacs?

robertcarteron Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

I'm at the start of my career but am starting to notice some of the downsides you've experienced. Any advice on how to avoid some of the trappings?

robertcarteron Spacemacs 0.105.0 released

How long did it take you to convert? Did you relinquish vim key-bindings and cross to straight emacs? I still prefer out of habit vim keystrokes, but I'm having to relearn everything else (buffer navigation, searching, definition navigation etc)

robertcarteron The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them

Give the chrome extension OneTab a try

robertcarteron Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything

Is there a way to tab into the content for a query (right side column) instead of having to mouseover and scroll? Also it would be nice to be able to search the content area as well so I can more effectively jump to the material I think I need.

robertcarteron Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life

Maybe they wouldn't be interested in us. Certainly there are some people here on this Earth that I wouldn't want to meet (for instance some of my relatives).