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Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by sgeisenh »

agentultra wrote: post #126

Nice looking site! One piece of advice: don't put C, C++, etc on your resume unless you're really comfortable with those languages and want to focus on them. Your resume highlights your design skills and projects using web technologies. Great! Focus on those! For example, your Github has no examples of C programming skills and your resume doesn't highlight any projects where you'd likely use C. If you were interested…

A lot of interviewers like to ensure that you're comfortable with pointers and the distinction between the stack and the heap. It can be nice to list a familiarity on your resume just to let people know that you're comfortable with those kinds of questions.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by memonkey »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #219
memonkey wrote: post #218

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Well, okay. I see where you're coming from but you can absolutely teach motivation. It is, however, extremely harder, because motivation is not as tangible as talent in the case of the individual. I mean, I'm not sure I'm not alone in wishing my own motivation at 19 was matched by this very motivated person. I think, however, that is the idea of this community. The I-Wish-I-Executed-My-Idea-At-19 types Even-Though-I-…

The sort of motivation I'm talking about you can't be taught: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-St...

Well, then your previous definition is moot. Also, if you're interested in it further, I suggest Interest and Effort by John Dewey..

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by kidsthesedays »

jcliff wrote: post #206
kidsthesedays wrote: post #201

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He isn't much different from a run of the mill college kid. He just has a "startup style" website with gratuitous pictures of himself all over it. It's called "personal marketing." Apparently software engineers are supposed to do that nowadays - our code no longer speaks for itself.

code still speaks for itself. it just has to be framed and delivered to an audience. your side project that's sitting on your hard drive or even your unpublicized github account isn't doing you any good.

Um... I am old and I don't have time to work on side projects - I have dying parents I need to spend time with because I won't get that time back. I have friends that live all over the East Coast now and visiting them is very important and now time consuming. My point is this is incredibly superficial and the stuff that matters (his actual work) gets lost in all the needless fluff.

Plus I'm too busy getting my actual work done to "market" myself.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by nilkn »

vacri wrote: post #212
hn_ wrote: post #166

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I have to be honest here.... I review resumes and have a say in hiring decisions in my company. I would probably have a tendency to disregard this resume because of the picture. It is pretty distracting and frankly makes me uncomfortable. I don't wish to evaluate a candidate based on their looks but this one says "my looks are important to my job qualifications." Perhaps I'm old fashion and this is over the top but i…

Distracting? You can't see the photo when you're looking at the 'resume' part of the page. It's pretty a standard marketing format - big friendly picture of one or two people from the waist up, whether it's a support person speaking into a headset or a hard-working suit-wearer tapping into a computer.

I believe he/she was referring to the actual PDF resume (as was I): http://www.hostmeinca.com/cv/Marek-Dlugos-CV.pdf

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by Retra »

themodelplumber wrote: post #148
soneca wrote: post #24

Your page looks great because you have great skills and achievements to show. Remember that. You are getting A LOT of attention in HN, that will sure be picked up by another places on the interwebs. So, my piece of advice: do not use this fame and fall in temptation to start capitalizaing solely on your personal brand, giving lectures, interviews, writing books on how to be hired by the hottest startups and other dis…

If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...

Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by Retra »

silverbax88 wrote: post #177
Joky wrote: post #140

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Well since GitHub is only ~5 years old it is not very surprising...

I'm more likely to ask what source control you have used. If you say Git, I'm going to ask why. I'm going to figure out if you really understand source code or you just use what's popular. That is not a statement about Git or any other source control. But I don't need to see your github account to figure out what level of developer you are (or what level you think you are).

I use git because I was taught it and have found no reason to transition elsewhere. I know that's not a good reason to use git. If I'm to consider alternatives, I'm going to have to set aside the 10 million other things I could be learning, many of which are actual obstacles to my workflow.

Oh, I could learn SVN. Or Mercurial. Or Node.js, Groovy, MFC, solaris, AngularJS, Adobe Illustrator, Guitar, Unicode, Python, Web Services, Satellite Radio, JNI, C#, Haskell metaprogramming, Android, Client-server models, Nuclear Physics, ASP.net, Flex/Yacc, Cocoa, COM, Blender, DOM, TCP/IP, XML, Finance, Azure, Cassandra, VIM, Emacs, Arch Linux, Regex, Category Theory, Statistics, Maya, Color models, IEEE-754, Compiler optimization, OS design, Database management, LINQ, Piano, Struts, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Homotopy Type Theory, NLTK, GTK+, X windows, WPF, ...

Why would anyone care that I know git and haven't explored other options? Do you happen to need someone who can write source control software?

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by goatforce5 »

kidsthesedays wrote: post #223
jcliff wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

code still speaks for itself. it just has to be framed and delivered to an audience. your side project that's sitting on your hard drive or even your unpublicized github account isn't doing you any good.

Um... I am old and I don't have time to work on side projects - I have dying parents I need to spend time with because I won't get that time back. I have friends that live all over the East Coast now and visiting them is very important and now time consuming. My point is this is incredibly superficial and the stuff that matters (his actual work) gets lost in all the needless fluff. Plus I'm too busy getting my actual…

You've got your thing going on and he's got his. There's no one right answer to life. It's all good.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by 5435434553 »

Retra wrote: post #226
themodelplumber wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...

Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.

Do you live in a fairy world? The point of writing and publishing books is TO MAKE MONEY. Nobody cares about your opinions.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by 5435434553 »

roneesh wrote: post #93
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #59

Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time…

His entire page is a composite of other people's open source work, the achievement isn't in writing anything new, it's just in how well it's been put together.

In other words, he can't create anything and will be useless for any decent company.
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