odorousrex (u/odorousrex)

odorousrex commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

odorousrex · 6 months ago

Location: United States (Southern California / Los Angeles Metro / Ventura)

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# .NET, Typescript / Javascript (inc Node), React, Vue, Laravel (php) SQL (t-SQL mostly) Unity (as a hobby) Azure Management (pretty much every major product in Azure) some exp in AWS as well and doing Salesforce (apex) integrations.

Résumé/CV: 20 years programming experience (13 years as a SSWE, 7 of those as a lead) Even spent a couple years as an overall IT director at a startup, but decided I much prefer to be coding! Mostly worked in eCommerce (created an ecommerce platform from scratch) before Shopify ate our lunch. I also spent a some time converting other platforms to shopify. The last 5 years I've worked in Call Center tech (Twilio based, very familiar with their APIs) and using LLMs (AI) to improve call center service (automatically analyzing call recordings for agent performance, call outcomes, customer sentiment, etc) I've mentored/taught several junior engineers when I was lead engineer as well.

Email: odorousrex@yahoo.com

odorousrex commented on Yes, social media is undermining democracy theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/samizdis

ausbah · 3 years ago

I think part of remedy is promoting an informed electorate. I imagine this would start at the level of schooling with promoting critical thinking and instillation of democratic supporting virtues (like always vote)

odorousrex · 3 years ago

I agree with you, but the problem with this approach is there a vocal minority (in the US at least) that vehemently opposes this as it hurts votes for "their side". The last thing they want is an educated, critical thinking, populace. They want people who will fall in line, and do as they are let to believe.

odorousrex commented on Twitter Sues Elon Musk axios.com/2022/07/12/twit... · Posted by u/rurp

threeseed · 3 years ago

That would tank Tesla/SpaceX stock and likely cause class action lawsuits en masse.

If the CEO is so mentally unstable that he will randomly buy billion dollar companies then he has no business running those companies.

odorousrex · 3 years ago

If the market were rational, I would agree with you.

But it is not, and Musk has a weird cult of personality around him.

odorousrex commented on The universe is expanding faster than expected quantamagazine.org/astron... · Posted by u/tinmandespot

tokamak-teapot · 5 years ago

What causes the Big Bang in this scenario?

odorousrex · 5 years ago

Basically, the way I understand it, is the probability of a Big Bang spontaneously occurring (due to the quantum fluctuations) is some godawful infinitesimally low number 0.00000...1 that for all intents and purposes is 0, but is NOT zero.

So given ungodly eons of time (googleplex ^ googleplex * graham's number, etc. of years) something with a very, very, very low probability becomes inevitable.

odorousrex commented on Flanderization tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... · Posted by u/doener

qz2 · 5 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to write that up - genuinely appreciated. Some good points. I've watched Discovery, Enterprise all the way through but not DS9 so that covers some gaps.

odorousrex · 5 years ago

DS9 is peak Star Trek for me. It took what I loved about TNG and gave it the "Babylon 5" Arc treatment with a bit more darkness to it. I would highly recommend watching the whole series. It's available now on just about every streaming service.

odorousrex commented on The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand onezero.medium.com/the-mo... · Posted by u/pseudolus

odorousrex · 5 years ago

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!

odorousrex commented on YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/laumars

julybuffalo · 6 years ago

Should Verizon be able to cancel your account because they don't like your phone conversations?

odorousrex · 6 years ago

False Equivalence. A phone conversation is between two parties only, not a broadcast to the widest possible audience.

odorousrex commented on New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 directorsblog.nih.gov/202... · Posted by u/rkolberg

AntonStratiev · 6 years ago

Introducing social distancing for the entire population comes at huge economic and social cost.

It is more effective to follow these three simple measures:

1. Symptomatic cases stay at home for 7 days

2. All household members of symptomatic cases stay at home for 14 days

3. Social distancing for the over 70 population only

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Social distancing of the entire population also slows the acquisition of immunity with zero and low risk age groups, which drags the whole situation out months longer.

It might even be logical with the above 3 steps in place for zero/low risk group to deliberately seek out the virus. This grants immunity quicker, and if they become sick, they can receive treatment whilst hospitals are still underwhelmed.

Speaking personally I would happily accept a strain of the virus considered to be low risk, then go into 14 day quarantine, if it meant I could afterwards work and socialise without any lockdown or restriction.

odorousrex · 6 years ago

>It might even be logical with the above 3 steps in place for zero/low risk group to deliberately seek out the virus. This grants immunity quicker, and if they become sick, they can receive treatment whilst hospitals are still underwhelmed.

This is extremely irresponsible. The long-term effects of the virus are currently unknown but there are some worrying signs of possible long-term lung and other-organ damage that have been reported (anecdotally) from China and Italy. It's going to take time for these studies to be done.

Not to mention the immunity period length is unknown at this time. If this coronavirus follows the pattern of other coronaviruses, immunity could last 6 months to a year tops. That is ... not good. And a secondary infection could be worse than the first due to immune system overresponse/cytokine storm.

It's important we take the time to study these secondary effects and allow time for treatments and/or a vaccine to be developed and studied before we come up with any long-term plan.

odorousrex commented on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/tmlee

odorousrex · 6 years ago

This is one of the most disgusting and repulsive comments I've ever read on HN.

These are people - my parents, my in-laws, and my sister-in-law are all in this age group, as I'm sure a lot of posters here are as well.

These are human beings like you are I. Please have a little more respect.

odorousrex commented on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/tmlee

abstractbarista · 6 years ago

From the death %, symptoms, and recovery stats, it really is mostly "just the flu".

If you are otherwise healthy, this is like getting a cold with a fever for a week, then feeling better.

Sure, call it a pandemic, because it is worldwide. But honestly it's just not that remarkable. This isn't some godly virus with 25% death rates!

odorousrex · 6 years ago

This is misinformation, and spreading misinformation like this is not helping anyone, and can actively hurt people.

Please educate yourself: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/