Ask HN: Who needs a job?
Edited to add (kudos to mrduncan):
Make it easy for employers by indicating where you're located, whether you'd be willing to move, if you'd prefer to telecommute, etc.
Edited to add (kudos to mrduncan):
Make it easy for employers by indicating where you're located, whether you'd be willing to move, if you'd prefer to telecommute, etc.
It's free and it's quick to sign up. So I hope no one minds my posting it here. I know how much it sucks to be jobless and looking for work, so this site is my little helping hand to anyone in that position.
If an opportunity came along, I would be interested in something where I could use my knowledge of physics and coding for something more "applied" and immediately useful to humanity than astrophysics. Ring any bells?
We don't need someone with the skillset immediately, but we would have. Have you considered greentech?
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.
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.
His name is Jon. Email: larsen@casinc.com
It's all forces and equilibria at that level.
Less so in the genetics department, that's much more string processing and image processing oriented.
I've thought about this, but if you set out to sell software to researchers it's very hard to find customers. Anyone working in this field already has some workable software, and your software would have to be an awful lot better in order to persuade them to switch... and the best-existing codes probably represent many man-years of work.
I've thought about starting a company in my own particular subfield (first-principles simulations on the atomic level) but have never quite got to the point where I come up with enough imaginary customers to make the effort worthwhile. And that's in my own field, which I already understand... catching up with computational biology from an astrophysics background would take a lot longer.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/palantir-the-next-billion-d...
Investment banks also like physicists and computer scientists for their quant trading work.
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.)
Latest work: Linux device drivers for an air traffic control system, medical equipment and a cell phone base station.
Earlier work: portable data terminals, air conditioning control systems, remote order entry systems, telephone banking, EFTPOS terminals and networks, various communications programs, web pages for remote control of communications equipment.
Major accomplishments: rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script; rewrote a VME to PCI bus chip driver reducing the packet transfer time from 40 milliseconds to 200 nanoseconds.
Worked at NCR, Nokia, Philips, Telstra and Wang among others.
On the other hand, living in Sydney is more expensive with average purchase prices of $A515K ($US464K) for a flat and $A600K ($US541K) for a house as opposed to $A485K ($US437K) and $A510K ($US460K).
I have 4 years experience working in Digital Library Services where I write services and web apps that interact with integrated library systems. I generally use PHP, MySQL, Drupal, and jQuery for work (this is the leading academic library web stack), but I'm trying to ween myself toward RoR and other Ruby frameworks. I also have experience with Java, C, Scheme, and ASM (in that order) from my CS studies. I've started working on a RoR project to help manage EZProxy, which is an existing, near-ubiquitous proxy service for academic libraries to offer off-campus access to licensed content, that I hope to turn into a SaaS business in the near future.
Website: http://bricestacey.com
Portfolio: http://mdolon.com - Blog: http://devgrow.com
I may not have a Ph.D. in astrophysics like that other guy, but I really do think I could contribute somewhere given the chance.
beyondhostile AT gmail.com
I live in Santa Cruz, California and won't be able to move for a year (I'm a student) but I can telecommute. I'm also willing to work below market prices (being a student and all).
I have no concept of what my skill level is when it comes to programming or system administration. Shoot me an e-mail and ask me some questions to determine that for yourself.
The unusual thing about him is that he has excellent communication skills, something that is pretty rare at his age.
I've coded a good deal in Perl, C, and Lua, and have been learning Scheme for quite some time as well. I'm comfortable with Linux (bash included), OS X, and Windows. I'm willing and able to learn new languages/systems.
Currently a senior majoring in Linguistics (human), though most of my jobs through college have been with computers.
Please feel free to email me -- my email address is in my profile.
I'm super curious, intellectually fearless, and willing to relocate (currently in Chicago; would prefer SF.) Contact info is in my profile.
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.
Below are a few of the sites I visit daily for news, entertainment and to education.
Some small codes written for references: http://github.com/genkiro/Quora1/downloads
Resume: http://github.com/downloads/genkiro/Quora1/Ronny_Wijaya_2010...
I can be reached at rwijaya@purdue.edu
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!
I'm primarily interested in working part-time on a project that would give me more experience in web or game development, and more crucially get to work with people who know how to get traction.
I obviously don't have a lot under my belt right now, but I'm a quick learner and avid reader of HN. I have PHP, Python, C++, Java and web designing skills. I made a web app for local sales and events in Pakistan a while back (http://www.itaaza.com), though it's a bit dead at the moment.
I've also worked a bit on mobile game development. Made a game for the Nokia Calling All Innovators contest, and working on an android game right now.
contact me at taha.rafiq@gmail.com
I spend a lot of time in Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle, and Flash, but I am willing to learn anything and everything. I've recently put a website together where you can see some of the art I've done: http://vveleva.weebly.com/ As for programming, I'm familiar with html, css, javascript and Java, and I'm learning python (having fun playing with visual libraries).
I'm flexible about compensation; I just really want to get my foot in the door and start learning from some smart people.
I can be reached at vvveleva at gmail.
I'm experienced with both the LAMP stack and the design stack (especially napkins). I cofounded and was CTO of a startup for 1.5 years, http://thinkpanda.com, and am currently freelancing.
Check out my portfolio website: http://fahdoo.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/fahdb
Or if someone wants to angel fund me so I can work on a few new startup ideas, then that would be swell :)
Like lutorm, I'm wondering who in the startup/industry world might find my skill set useful. (Yes, I know about finance.) I'm located in NYC, and will be staying here for the foreseeable future.
Me in a nutshell: PhD in electrical engineering, research experience in audio processing and machine learning, mainly speech recognition and music analysis. These days I do lots of scientific coding in Python.
CS Degree (honors) from Duke, and Law(JD) and Business(cert) degree from UPenn. Don't want to be a lawyer, it really is soul sucking :) (no offense to you lawyers out there!). Have worked in both a startup environment and that of a large corporation. Comfortable in Java, Scala, Ruby, Javascript. Have built apps in Struts, Rails, Spring, Webwork, and Lift. Minimum competency in C++, Objective-C.
Would like to get in on the ground floor with an exciting startup that is doing challenging work.
Living in Philly. Willing to move anywhere (well, mostly). Email is in the profile.
I have a BS in Physics and am currently finishing a MS in Materials Science, but I'm looking to move into a more computational direction. I have a lot of experience with the analysis of large data sets, computer vision and image processing problems, and knowledge of cluster and cloud computing; and I've got a strong interest in machine learning and statistical analysis. Most of my programming experience has been in Matlab and Java, with a bit of Python, Fortran and R mixed in.
I hope I finish my side project soon, just to have something to show (aside from freelancing work). Some projects I've disclosed: http://www.pmura.com/labs
(With all the coders and people like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558995 on HN, I'm feeling like crossing a deserted market, in a dystopian world, full of people looking at me like a weird "something".)
Around 10 years experience, mainly with java but also flex/actionscript, ruby, Objective-C. Unix experience as an admin at a few companies when I was in college/recent grad. Experience with both commercial and F/OSS tools/stacks.
Recent work: Building java/flex applications on a completely open-source stack (Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, BlazeDS).
Past work: Building enterpise-y systems on WebSphere and JBoss. Also spent a few years as a java application performance analyst and tuner.
I've also done professional webdev work with RoR, my Ruby is not ultra idiomatic so I wouldn't say I'm excellent at it, but I can get the job done. Also know my way around Javascript, though I'm really rusty.
I'm from Brazil and living here currently but I want to relocate and have taken all the necessary steps :)
contact at #{HN username}@gmail.com
SingleFeed (singlefeed.com) is also hiring RoR developers, they are based in SF as well.
If any front end designers or developers (CSS, HTML, Jquery) are interested in some contract work we have some projects coming up at Webvanta (www.webvanta.com), ping me if your interested.
Contact details in my profile if you have any questions.
I'm mainly into FileMaker / MySQL / PHP since 3 years but mainly dealing with project-management and administration type of stuff these days.
I'm not looking for a full time job as such .. However, I want start work on a education-startup-idea in the near future. I'm willing to take on FileMaker projects on the side.
Me: just graduated from university; I'm good at engineering big things, backend development (python and some C/C#), data analytics, and predictive models. I like the type of challenges that keep you up thinking. I gained a fair bit of startup experience for the past few years in undergrad.
Feel free to shoot me a message: alex.harrower@hotmail.com. (no, thats not my real name. I just started f/t with a big company, so sorry for the anonymity. :)
Thing is, I've never done anything of the interesting stuff for money. And I'd quite like to.
My CV's on github: http://github.com/johnd/cv
I'm pretty comfortable with the whole stack, really.
Edit: Neat, you guys are in Kirkcaldy? I'm in Inverkeithing.
I'm a web (and desktop) developer in Vancouver, BC, willing to freelance or work part-time. I mostly have experience in Ruby and PHP, but dabble in pretty much everything.
Here's a CV/portfolio, which goes on at much greater length: http://derefr.co.cc/work
Currently entering my last year of a JD/MBA program. Prior to grad school, wrote code professionally for 7+ years, mostly in startup orgs of one shape or another (some that were pre-launch, others that were post-IPO). These days, prefer Rails, but looking forward to Perl 6.
I don't have anything in particular in mind, I'm just curious to see who/what might be interested.
I'm 23, great humored, and a very quick learner. Looking for a part time internship where I can get my hands dirty in programming. I have basic experience with linux, OSX, python, and ruby. I would love to find someplace where I can contribute and learn with others.
Contact info in my profile. Lets get creative!
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.
contact devan.lochees at the mail service provided by gewgl
My email is thinkago at gmail.
currently seattle at MS, stony brook university come fall, graduating feb or may
possible relocations: seattle, san fran, NYC, philly, austin, boston. anywhere in europe would be fantastic, I speak french so paris/montpellier would be great, or anywhere they speak enough english for me to get by (stockholm, copenhagen, london, maybe berlin)
serious inquiries for people solving serious problems only, no web stuff unless your backend requirements are crazy, also, expect me to wander away to grad school in a couple of years, I already have some good looking offers so don't get your hopes up
my username point walsh at symbol and then the popular webmail provider most of you probably have that starts with 'g', .com
also my username, no dot or space or hyphen, followed by walsh and .com, though it's pretty sparse these days and my resume is out of date
you can also email me if you just want to chat, I'm friendly :)
I prefer telecommuting but would move someplace cool if the opportunity sounded right. I prefer big cities or somewhere in Asia. Currently I'm living in Victoria, BC, Canada.
My portfolio: http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio
I have just started my blog: http://www.zarthon.wordpress.com
Finishing my MBA in March, strong technology background with programming experience. I do not want to code full-time however. Very strong interest in sustainability, green, and similar businesses.
I'm looking for a software development position. My research area was computer networks, but interested in other areas as well. More interested in working on back-end type of stuff than front-end/UI. In Boston area, but willing to relocate.
9 years experience doing web development work, mostly with PHP and MySQL. Looking for contract or freelance work. Would prefer to telecommute (as I'm all the way down at the bottom of the world). Have plenty of experience working remotely.
My Github profile: http://github.com/scriptor/
Email: historium@gmail.com
Let me know if you'd like to see my resume.
Located in the Mission, San Francisco. Great warehouse loft space, all you can drink beer, soda, juice, competitive salary and generous equity. YC-funded!
Contact is in profile if you'd like my resume/site.
please send resumes to jobs@polyvore.com.
I'm a student studying Comp Sci and Econ, entering my third year now. A fan of PHP & Python, but am experienced with HTML/CSS, C, C++ and a little Javascript.
Email's in profile.
Willing to relocate to US. Currently have a great job here, so only interested in on-site relocation offers.
chris at opower dot com if you're interested in details.
- Looking for Java or Rails contract in/near London
- 10+ years experience in development
Contact eliotsykes via gmail
Also my Dad just moved out to Charlottetown last year (from Toronto) for a job. I will post again when I remember the name of the company.
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