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pknerd

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Software Technology Consultant Skype: sidlabs email: kadnan(at)gmail (dot) com Web: http://adnansiddiqi.me/ Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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pknerd··on Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
I am surprised why no one thought about it? Awesome!
pknerd··on Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
very valuable advise. DS itself is nothing unless it is implemented in a specific domain.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)
Location: Pakistan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Web Development(Laravel, Flask, Django). ETL(Airflow, Bonobo, Spark). Web Scraping(Beautifulsoup, Selenium, Scrapy).

I am always a learner so learning Go and shipped a couple of libs. Willing to work on it professionally.

How can I be helpful? You could hire me for the following but not specific to it:

Code/System optimization: I could help to improve your system/website performance by checking code, Db Queries and Db itself. For websites, I can help to see what requests are unnecessary and how to minimize them and Db management.

Web Development: I am quite comfortable in Laravel and Flask but could also work in Django.

Product Development: I could take care of entire product development cycle.

ETL/Optimization: I can help in Data Scraping, writing data/ETL pipelines and automation tools to make your life easier.

Website: http://adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@gmail.com

pknerd··on Ask HN: How can an ordinary programmer contribute to space exploration?
I am not the OP but I would like to respond:

I can write web apps. For the last 7 years I am using Python for scraping, automation and other stuff. Check my profile at http://adnansiddiqi.me and Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

pknerd··on How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
I myself is a developer and been running a blog for four years so what you are doing is not a rocket science. I earned via guest posts, affiliates and Ads. I could not write an ebook yet as I am not so focused atm.
pknerd··on How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
OffTopic: How come HN did not print medium.com only and prints medium.com/the-developers-journey?
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
Location: Earth

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Web Development(Laravel, Flask, Django). ETL(Airflow, Bonobo, Spark). Web Scraping(Beautifulsoup, Selenium, Scrapy)

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@gmail.com

pknerd··on Ask HN: Non-web developers, what do you do?
I was/am a web dev but mostly use python for ETL and web scraping.
pknerd··on Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
Tell me some recent Iranian inventions/discoveries. We are not talking about working in some existing field. I am clear about R&D.
pknerd··on Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
Every nation copied others work. It's called wisdom of crowd or knowledge transfer. The West then had copied the work of Arabs.
pknerd··on Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
> Sunnis embraced al-Ghazali as the winner of the debate with the Hellenistic rationalists

Let's assume it is true and Sunnis followed Ghazali and stopped thinking, pondering and doing research work but what about Shias and other factions of it? Why did not they produce something amazing in science? One can't blame Ghazali for all the mess, especially when he was not followed by all Islamic sects. I will not blame Islam or Quran either. It is something else, probably some kind of excuse or laziness. I wanted to say that the "Hunger for Heaven" might have made them not to use brains but then I see non practising and liberal/modernist Muslims, they did not do anything remarkable either.

I guess it is a culture, some kind of viral disease like thought that propagated in entire Muslim world and it affected regardless of someone is practising Muslim or not. Being a Pakistani muslim I observe that people have no interest of asking questions, they never ask questions. They accept things as it is which is quite irritating. They just accept things as a "gift of God" and prefer to move on rather than finding out WHY is it around.

pknerd··on Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
Can you elaborate _stupid things_ part?
pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)
SEEKING WORK Location: Remote

Technologies: ETL, Web Developnent(Laravel, Django, Flask), Web site optimization. Code optimization.

Profile:- http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

pknerd··on DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
Any GUI Client to explore data?
pknerd··on Firebug
As long as I used FF I always used Firebug. Thanks Joe Hewitt.
pknerd··on I don’t have time for coding challenges
I got chance to appear in a couple of coding challenges while applied for jobs. In one test I failed. It was a typical hacker rank riddle. The other I passed as I see my test ran properly yet I got a rejection letter. Another HN based job interview I was asked for a challenge but I simply refused.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?
Http://adnansiddiqi.me

And http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Both,esp blog helped to get job and gigs.

pknerd··on Why Karachi Floods
Yes. All these stuff needs to be taken care by provincial govt as per 18th amendment which transfers power to provinces but some how incompetent Sind govt blames the center.

- I am from Karachi.

pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2020)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Remote

If you are looking for web scrapers, automation tools, ETLs etc then do contact me. I also have written about them on my blog http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/scraping and http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/etl

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/CV2020.pdf

Contact: kadnan AT gmail

pknerd··on Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page?
Must be busy checking server logs[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138814

pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2020)
And your site is not working.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2020)
Any email to contact you?
pknerd··on Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?
:) Just in case if you ever need my help :)
pknerd··on Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?
I neither do Node nor react. Mostly in Python, PHP and now Go. But I am not a rockstar or Ninja:). I am mostly a generalist.
pknerd··on Don't Get Stuck
There is something called tech debt and I can understand it but just replacing a Bootstrap/jQuery based app wit React/VUE just because it is new does not make sense. I will not mind upgrading from Python 2x to Python 3x but I will always resist to replace Flask with Django, unless there is some really genuine reason behind it.
pknerd··on Don't Get Stuck
Probably 1 in 100 companies offer such offers? Why depend on a company when you can learn on your own?

I am self-taught programmer. I learnt Pascal and C back in Uni. After that I never tool formal education for learning new tech. Youtube rocks.

pknerd··on Don't Get Stuck
I tell you one thing. If you think that a company will be offering you new tech after every X months or Y years then you are wrong. Tech world does not like that. Think of the investment a company does to bring in a tech stack. It is not all about downloading a new tech, it is about finding and hiring resources. If they all start changing tech based on wish list then they never can progress. I remember something my ex Boss said years back: We have not married with companies hence we should not try to change company as per our will.

In order to fulfill what you want you should work on side projects. Side projects are great way to vent out tech frustration. Working on PHP and got bored? Try python at home. Tired of using bootstrap? Try Tailwind. Feel angry seeing monolith CRUD apps? Try Docker at home and start making micro-services. You have endless options. You can also put code on Github to improve your resume.

pknerd··on Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform
Thanks to Google, The PHP Framework, Lithium will get some unwanted praise here.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Medium.com or Personal Blog?
Why not both? Write on your own and import it on medium. In this way you will increase your outreach.
pknerd··on Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
Does it work with Invisible Captcha? I do not think so.
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