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Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by wyclif »

aaront wrote: post #7

Looks great, just a few little things: * "I am Filip Santa, 19 years old designer from Slovakia" sounds a little strange. Maybe something like "I am Filip Santa, a 19 year old designer from Slovakia" * In your timeline, instead of "Learning what is layer", maybe "Learning about layers" * Also in the timeline: "Trying first webs & posters", maybe "Designing first web sites & posters" And, here's my OCD peeking through…

Filip: You need to rewrite the copy; some of the English is severely broken and you are using hyphens where there shouldn't be any.

If you need help, email me and I'll help you as much as I can (I'm an English Lit. major and native speaker).

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by bitops »

hendrix wrote: post #40

Not to be too harsh, but why would xyz cool startup hire you when they can hire someone from the usa with a degree?

Because this kid obviously has drive, ambition, and talent. Caring enough about his dream to put together a site and posting it to HN demonstrates that he's paying attention and he wants to connect with other driven people. Also that he spent 4 days on it when he could have been out partying shows a good deal more vision than a lot of 19-year olds.

He also is willing to make sacrifices and go halfway across the globe to join a team. Doubt you'll see his manager worrying if he's spending too much time on reddit.

It's also a big deal to leave your country and go somewhere where you have little base.

So in a nutshell, because he has the classic immigrants ambition, and won't rest on his laurels like perhaps someone who was born here would.

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by fbuilesv »

pthreads wrote: post #42

Doesn't one need a 4 year college degree (or equivalent work experience) for H1-B visa?

You do, unless the company happens to be pretty well connected (think Google, Apple). Then they can get you a visa which might not be H1-B but you get the same "benefits".

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by brainless »

More than anything this shows how people all across the world look up to Silicon Valley. Well ok, nerds and designers (web), tech entrepreneurs and the type. But still, for this group of people Silicon Valley is like a dream.

I am myself planning to stay, work and learn from the valley sometime soon. And I am sure there are hundreds like me.

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by pakeha »

mbesto wrote: post #37

There's a lot of sentiment in the HN comments that he should not leave university. For a community that is fairly bent on restructuring the education system, I have to ask: what gives? Is going to college worth it or not?

The extent to which having a four-year US degree equivalent will assist this young man in getting an H1-B visa cannot be exaggerated. It's possible without it, but, AFAIK, it then becomes a non-standard process which will require quite a bit of effort/explanation on the part of the sponsor - i.e. the immigrant will need to be quite a special person. Professional work experience can be substituted for study (I think at a 3:1 ratio, i.e 12 years of professional work experience = 4 year degree), but for obvious reasons that doesn't seem like a good option in this case.

I'm not an expert on this topic by any means, but I do speak from personal experience.

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by RealGeek »

He will require a H1-B visa to move and work in US. But unfortunately, you require a 4 year degree to be eligible for H1-B or 12 years work experience. So, H1-B is out of question.

The only viable option is to join a University in Silicon Valley and work part time in a start up.

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by tfb »

benwerd wrote: post #22

He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.

Has anyone else noticed that everyone who calls his/herself a "designer" uses very similar fonts (and font structures/patterns)? It always seems to be a taller-than-normal, skinny, bold, with I mean I guess it looks good. I just wish "designers" would try something else for a change. It gets kind of old. Trying something else and making it look good (and function well), in my eyes, is what separates a great designer from the good.

Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

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Post by FilipSanta »

jc4p wrote: post #21

Is the entire thing just a Photoshop Save for Web document with some jQuery attached? Also the "LET MY DREAM COME TRUE" image's hover state not being preloaded made me sad. Okay to actually be constructive: It's a good time to be trying this because it's the beginning of a new year so H-1B visas are available. As another self taught young developer who's extremely eager to leave his full-time job and go to school nex…

this is about design, forget the code.. i've originally designed this for one startup from Palo Alto, which's been looking for pure Graphic designer, i couln't image this up on HackerNews.. i can finish college anytime, but offers from Silicon Valley are not coming everyday :)
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