Based in Berkeley. http://p10q.com -- Feel free to ping me, esp. with interactive graphics work. That'd be ideal.
Ask HN: Who needs a job?
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Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#32This is slightly random but I'll give it a shot.
I'm a developer with mostly .net experience, but I know and love ruby (rails, sinatra) and would love to use it professionally. I've also been studying iPhone development a bit and have an app, albeit simple, on the app store.
I'm looking for a way to work and live in Vienna, Austria starting in January 2011. Earlier could possibly work too! I don't speak German, but I'm currently studying it and would love a situation that helped/forced me to learn while still being able to get work done. I have about 3-4 years professional experience writing web software, I'm a third of the way through a masters in c.s., and am fun to hang out with to boot. Any one looking for remote help, or help in Austria? Long shot, but I figured I'd try it! My email is in my profile, and I'd be happy to talk about anything.
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#33Anyone in Prince Edward Island, ideally Charlottetown, with some sort of entry-level technically-oriented job?
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#34I currently have a part-time job that pays the bills, and I want to keep it, but I would be very interested in doing small projects on the side, or jobs that only require a few hours a week (e.g. maintenance).
I'm proficient in Python; I've used the language since ~1996, professionally since 2002, mostly for back-end stuff that runs on servers, scripting, database access, etc. Also GUI programming and IronPython (at my job, we're currently converting existing CPython code to IronPython). I am not an expert on web programming, although I've designed several sites for personal use, and some web apps using Google App Engine.
As I am always interested in learning other/new programming languages, I also have limited experience in e.g. Scheme, OCaml, Ruby, Delphi, C, C++, D, Io, etc.
(My resume can be found at http://zephyrfalcon.org/resume.html, but please note that it's out of date; I haven't updated it since last November, when I was re-hired by Oasis Digital (mentioned on the resume as an earlier employer). I will get around to this, but as I am not looking for a full-time job, it hasn't been one of my priorities.)
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#35I'm not really looking for a job currently, but I'm interested in who would find someone with my skill set useful: Ph.D. in astrophysics, 15yr research experience, lots of coding in C++ and Python (mostly numerical, Monte Carlo, parallel computation, radiation transfer stuff). In general a pretty all-round kind of guy. If an opportunity came along, I would be interested in something where I could use my knowledge of…
That's one hell of a resume.
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#36I just finished my MSc Mathematics (in quantitative finance). If anyone is looking for a math or finance person that also knows some coding (basic C++, etc) I'd be willing to relocate.
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#37I'm not really looking for a job currently, but I'm interested in who would find someone with my skill set useful: Ph.D. in astrophysics, 15yr research experience, lots of coding in C++ and Python (mostly numerical, Monte Carlo, parallel computation, radiation transfer stuff). In general a pretty all-round kind of guy. If an opportunity came along, I would be interested in something where I could use my knowledge of…
That's one hell of a resume.
Lol. :)
Actually, I generally feel inferior in the coding discussions here, since I have very little experience with web/networking type stuff and that seems to be what's wanted/used.
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one hell of a resume.
Lol. :) Actually, I generally feel inferior in the coding discussions here, since I have very little experience with web/networking type stuff and that seems to be what's wanted/used.
I'm sorry I pretty much stopped working with employees and I'm half the world away but with that sort of background you'd almost want to create a thing around you that fits your skill-set.
Physics simulation is a world of its own, and as more and more of this software finds its way on to clusters you can't really avoid the networking portion of writing code (unless abstracted away in MPI or so, but then it still helps to know what's going on under the hood).
With what you already know it shouldn't be too hard to pick up the web bits & pieces but frankly I think your skills are more valuable to the right party than web skills are.
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#39I am in SF and aggressively looking!! http://hireclayturk.wordpress.com
Constructive criticism:
1. Not sure about the artfully-dishevelled glamour shot. Something is offputting about it, though I can't put my finger on what it is.
2. "I love being the smartest person in the room, but humbly accept when I am not and love to learn knew things" sounds a little egotistical. I would be concerned that a person who said that might be a little too eager to believe themselves to be the smartest person in the room, even when they're not.
3. You're very specific about what you can't do: "not a genius software engineer or computer science major... not able to program the next Facebook..." but very vague about what you can do. You claim that "I can give you ideas as to what should be implemented and understand why", but you don't demonstrate that your ideas about what should be implemented will actually be any good.
4. Convert your resume to html, it's too hard to read in the little scribd box.
5. * “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” W. Dyer* Again, seems a little egotistical; you're handing out platitudes to people whom you want to be your boss.
Anyway, mostly I'd recommend rejigging your website so it puts a bit more emphasis on things you actually have achieved, rather than assertions that you're full of good ideas. And while I'm not calling you egotistical, I do think that your site might give people the impression that you are.
Re: Ask HN: Who needs a job?
#40Masters in Computer Science, experience in Program Analysis and Machine Learning. Experienced with C, Python, Perl, Java.
Interested in lots of things, including: synthetic biology/bioinformatics, finance, cryptography, natural language processing, evolutionary algorithms, and quantum computing.
East or West Coast US (or Chicago) is cool with me, as is telecommuting.
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