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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 s_dev »

juliangregorian wrote: post #75
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…

"steal" as if you never used someone else's code. There's not even a notice on the original, I'm hard pressed to find him at fault.

He should make an effort to attribute the work that isn't his.

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

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Post by roneesh »

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.

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

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Post by gerty »

josu wrote: post #69
Johnie wrote: post #33

Since he's from Slovakia, does he have the visa status to work in the US? Will a startup go through H1-B process for a summer intern? Also, if he doesn't go through the formal visa process and tries to do his summer internship with a visitor visa, he may be banned from the US for 10 years. Given that he's publicly publicizing coming to the US to work, it would be very easy for USCIS to block his entry into the US.

He doesn't say that he wants to work in the US though, or maybe I have missed it. But there are some pretty cool startups in Europe too, and given that Slovakia is part of Schengen he wouldn't have any problems with the visa if he were to work in Europe.

Meta keywords in HTML source include palo alto and california, so that's a strong indicator.

> But there are some pretty cool startups in Europe too, and given that Slovakia is part of Schengen he wouldn't have any problems with the visa if he were to work in Europe.

Schengen does not abolish visas across member states, as they had already been non-existent. Schengen removes border control. Visas and work permits are abolished as part of EU treaty.

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

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

jasonlotito wrote: post #85
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…

http://codepen.io/MarcoGuglielmelli/details/lLCxy Original author commented, and this was referenced: http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedHeaderBackgrounds/ This seems to be the original author: http://rachsmith.com/ Are you positive in your claim that Visual Idiot owns the code?

Clearly I was wrong! I guess I'm not so in the know as I think I am. Thanks for the background info.

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

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Post by olso »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #89
ohitsdom wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how did you even make the connection? I don't see the text "Visual Idiot" anywhere. And were you just browsing his js files? Or did the UI of the site feel familiar?

If you go to the Visual Idiot site it has the same background effect so if you've looked at both sites it would be a pretty easy observation.

Are you related to VisualIdiot? :)

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

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Post by lachenmayer »

Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like?

We at HackCampus http://hackcampus.io/ could offer you a 10-week internship at some amazing startups (GoCardless, SwiftKey, Kano and more) in London this summer. It's well-paid, and we'll give you free accommodation over the summer with a batch of other awesome student hackers like yourself.

http://hackcampus.io/internship/

I can give you more details over email, harry at hackcampus.io :)

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

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Post by DougBTX »

ylem wrote: post #58
c0g wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having just got a J1 visa myself, he'd be well served with J1. It lets you work in the US for up to 6 months in an internship. Might still be time!

But will it cause him any problems if he wants to come to the US to work or go to school in the near term after his internship? From what I remember, don't J1 visas require you to return to your home country for a certain period of time? It was something we (in the US) worried about when thinking about having an intern from India who was planning to attend graduate school in the US in a year or so...

Yes, http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange...
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