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Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, preferable

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Go; NodeJS, GraphQL, React/Vue, HTML/CSS; minor skills in Augmented/Virtual Reality, Unity and Machine Learning.

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonsekatskii/

Email: antonsekatskii@gmail.com

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Systems Thinking nerd (and not shy about it) with good social and communication skills (my second passion is human interactions). Think 55 minutes about a problem, then solve it in 5 remaining minutes. Strongly believe that it's all about thinking processes (and their quality) and turning them into the code is just a learnable skill. Love to learn something extremely difficult extremely fast if it helps to crack the problem. Let's do something great together, shall we? :)


Always wondered why marketing gurus couldn't create any big companies. They write about people psychology, how to sell, how to create hypes and go viral plus they have the network of investors, CEO and brands.

And yet, they're not the people behind behemoths like Stripe, AirBnB, Uber - you name it - nor smaller cool companies out there.


Great work! I just started using Tendermint to write a cryptocurrency for supporting open source development and have several simple questions. Would appreciate it if you could answer them:

1) What's your estimated time to be able to run in production?

2) What do you think of using something like PostgreSQL to keep the state?

3) Is it a good approach to write cron, for example, to recalculate some values once in awhile and update the state by sending transactions?

4) What is the best way to handle random numbers?


Thanks!

1) We're looking to get the Cosmos Hub up before the year is out, and to roll out production support in 2018.

2) Great, if you like. But if you want to support light clients you will need a scheme for producing Merkle proofs. Streaming data out of the app into Postgres to better serve clients, sure. But Postgres within the hot paths of your app? Not sure.

3) Sure. Or you can use BeginBlock or EndBlock messages to have the blockchain automatically run code even without transactions :)

4) We're still working on this. For now you can use an external random number oracle, or the block hash, which is available in the Header passed into BeginBlock. The block hash is currently highly manipulable.


Some other random generation techniques include commit-reveal schemes, BLS Threshhold Relays, VRFs, Private Hashchains, etc.


To the author: have you ever learned a language?

There will always be people who like to learn languages by using some new methods and individuals who create them.

Since my native language is not English and not even in the same language category, I could say that you don't need all those "methods", apps and tricks.

Language learning is all about having the right mindset.

All you need is 3 things:

1) A good input for listening and reading and a good output in form of writing and speaking. Just find an enthusiastic teacher.

2) Alleviation of psychological blocks and obstacle like "I'm not good at this" or "I don't have a gene" or "I'll never speak like natives".

3) Knowing the big "why" as in "Why do you want to learn that specific language?"


The best workout is the one you do. For a lot of people, language learning have some tedious rote memorization elements.

And not everybody have access to an "enthusiastic teacher"

These two things combined leaves plenty of room for "methods, apps and tricks"


Linguician is not meant to be the exclusive resource one may use for language learning. We don't brand or market it as a trick. It is meant as a playful and entertaining alternative you have on top of your own methods that you have for language learning.


That's your opinion. While I agree with your 123 points, I definitely see the point in having a diverse set of resources and methods to learn from.


So, basically, Senior Developer === Getting Things Done?


Rather Senior Developer === Enough perspective and experience to solve tricky problems and guide others. Exactly what I wrote in other words. Sorry if that stepped on sore frameworking victim toes.


Don't expect more sophisticated answer from an industry where virtually all the workforce has less than ten years of experience, and usually it's three or five years.


I noticed that when I was watching asset marketplaces and examples for both engines.

Unreal Engine seems more professional with advanced graphic and serious tools by default and Unity seems like an engine for indie studios who work on creating more creative games with unique styles. Of course, it's at first glance.

Thanks for the answer, I'll consider this in my decision.


1) Try to sell before you write the code like a company called Buffer did. All you need is just a landing page and not MVP.

2) Levels, as I know, had a YouTube channel with $1500-3000 of mostly passive income and already had followers before he created NomadList.

3) IndieHackers earns $1500-2500 after 5 months of work - the question here is can you properly live with a few $k so much time?


As I see it, the problem is in your mindset, more precisely that you're not evolving yourself. At some point, you just created a set of rules that hold you back in life. And you brain is constantly see the world through that particular set of rules: for example, CSS3 is boring, working in Tesla is awesome or I want to change the world, but don't have resources, therefore it's boring or the thing that if you are comparing "boring React" with "cool Autopilot in Tesla" shows the lack of understanding of the world.

Read Carol Dweck about growth mindset, change the mindset and start seeing the world differently.

And also, don't piddle "entrepreneur" and "startup" - I can argue that you really don't know how it works and you just have knowledge of it from cool articles, Tony-Stark-style business moves, and movies. Learn how it really works.


Why comparing something he isn't interested with something that interest him shows his lack of understanding of the world?.


I think parent is arguing that OP is deriving his misery from far fetched goals that may be almost impossible to fulfill; that if he settled for less ambitious accomplishements from a different perspective he would not feel this way. Or maybe that's just me.


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Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, prefer Canada, Finland, Australia or the USA

Position: [Technical] Full Stack Developer, Front End Developer, Android Developer or Game Developer (Unity3D).

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6/ES7), TypeScript, Node.js, Golang, React/Redux/Beeblebrox, Vue.js, Ruby on Rails, React Native, HTML5, CSS3/SASS/LESS, native Android (Java), C# in Unity3D (developing a couple of 2D games with an artist), Git, Docker.

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/anton-sekatski - drop me an email if you need PDF version.

Email: antonsekatski@gmail.com

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Name's Anton, feel free to contact me.


1. Make immigration real for my family and move to Finland or Canada for a better life.

2. Improve my English and try to make it my first language.

3. Get uncomfortable by starting to surround myself with people who are way smarter than me.


On the part of improving your language, try Benny Lewis's advice at FluentIn3Months. Use services like Duolingo and FluentU. I've tried it. Trust me, it helps a lot.


Thanks, very helpful! Didn't know about FluentU.


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