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SEEKING WORK remote or freelance

An young geek and fucking awesome passionate application developer who cares about perfect code and simplicity.

I know Ruby and Rails well, Django/Python at relatively good level. Use git for source control. Love Macs.

Wanna work on interesting projects with amazing idea.

Site/blog — http://goshakkk.name/

CV — http://goshakkk.name/assets/CV.pdf




Build an open source project, and then we'll be dazzled by your awesomeness :)

Friendly advice: webapps development is generally just moving data around back and forth between DB and client. That's not much and pretty much anyone can do it. When you will be working at real projects, you'll see that the bulk of tasks that need doing come in 4 flavors: annoying tasks, yak shaving tasks, tasks you don't have enough knowledge to get done, and flow tasks. The data ping-pong is not the issue. So in the mean time do yourself a favor and learn as much as you can out of science, rather than faddy techs: backtracking, dynamic programming, A*, hungarian algorithm, support vector machines, red-black trees, markov chains, monte carlo methods, drinking philosophers, decaying windows, bloom filters ...

How many of these can you solve? http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges


While we're providing critique: clean up the writing on your resume and change the "skills" section to something relevant. Rating half your skills at 4 and half at 3 tells me zero.

Finally, lose the Apple love. It's very unbecoming.


Wow, dude. Be a little more arrogant. You're exuding douche from every pore.

I've been doing this stuff for fifteen years and even I don't have the self-delusion to call myself "fucking awesome".

But you're still in high school, so maybe you'll grow up a bit and get out of the Ruby ghetto.


Even if you have a point buried in your vitriol somewhere, making a throwaway account and delivering it in this kind of way is a new low, _especially_ since you know the guy is still in highschool.


Somebody who wants to call themselves a "fucking awesome" developer will be treated like an adult when responding to their bragging. In this case, it's a developer whose "CV" (which reads as more of an Apple fanboy...thing...than a CV) clearly reveals himself to not be "fucking awesome". And that sort of baseless bragging is going to get a "rofl, you serious?" at best.

If he'd approached it as "I'm looking for an internship where I can learn something," I wouldn't have replied as I did. Instead, he tried to puff himself up as something he plainly isn't. And, hey--I like popping bubbles.

In retrospect, the throwaway account probably wasn't necessary, as the original post was upvoted. I s'pose other people don't really dig that sort of thing either.




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