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robyateson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)

SEEKING WORK | United States | Available for remote work or on-site relocation

Interested in hiring an Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning specialist? Need to develop a complex website?

Hire me if you want a developer who has:

- many years of software development experience with Cerner Corporation, Garmin International and Lam Research along with internships at both the Technicolor research lab and BMW Group Technology Office

- two degrees in computer science including artificial intelligence courses at Stanford University

- built several websites in Ruby on Rails and WordPress

More information about my background and a contact form is available on https://www.robertjyates.com

Programming languages: Java, C#, C++, Ruby and many others

Technologies: Xenomai, ROS, MongoDB, D3.js, Spring, Maven, Jenkins, Jira and more

robyateson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

Location: boston, ma; new york, ny; washington, dc

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, but east coast or midwest preferred

Technologies: java, c++, c#, ruby on rails, some python, a bit of r

Résumé/CV: https://robertjyates.com/RobertYatesResume.pdf

Email: see profile

robyateson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)

SEEKING WORK

Location: boston, ma; new york, ny; washington, dc; (REMOTE OK)

Technologies: java, c++, c#, ruby on rails, some python, a bit of r

Web: https://robertjyates.com/RobertYatesResume.pdf

Email: see profile

robyateson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)

SEEKING WORK | Boston / Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Washington D.C. | Either REMOTE or TRAVEL is OK

Technologies: Java, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, some Python and R

Website: http://www.robertjyates.com Résumé: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nhS6mg8Y5Icoo99QxMnNFoHfvy...

Email: rjyTwoNineEightFive at gmail dot com Replace "Two" with "2", "Five" with "5", and the other number text with their digit equivalents

Completed Masters in Computer Science from Stanford where I concentrated in artificial intelligence (AI). Coursework in statistical aspects of data mining, machine learning, multi-agent systems, social and information network analysis, general game playing. More than 5 years of full-time work experience, over 2 years of internship experience.

robyateson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)

Location: Boston / Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Washington D.C. Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Java, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, Python, R

Website: http://www.robertjyates.com Résumé: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nhS6mg8Y5Icoo99QxMnNFoHfvy...

Email: rjyTwoNineEightFive at gmail dot com Replace "Two" with "2", "Five" with "5", and the other number text with their digit equivalents

robyateson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)

SEEKING WORK | East coast (NYC, Boston, DC) | Available to relocate for on-site work OR Remote work is possible

Experienced software engineer and web application developer.

Technologies: Java, C#, C++, Ruby on Rails, some Python

Website: http://www.robertjyates.com

Resume: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uRoQXY1qYnw8mYU63X9hnSBIc1...

Email: rjy{two}{nine}{eight}{five} at gmail dot com (Replace numbers with digits and remove curly braces.)

robyateson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

Location: East coast (NYC, Boston, DC)

Remote: Yes or On-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, C#, C++, Ruby on Rails, some Python

Website: http://www.robertjyates.com

Resume: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uRoQXY1qYnw8mYU63X9hnSBIc1...

Email: rjy{two}{nine}{eight}{five} at gmail dot com (Replace numbers with digits and remove curly braces.)

robyateson How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

Agreed, there many good positions for new college grads. I don't think there is any better location than SV when starting a software engineering career.

While housing prices are quite high, working in technology you are certainly able to afford the higher rents. The problem is when you don't work in tech and live here.

robyateson How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)

I enjoy the open floor plan as well. The ease in which I can have conversations with my manager (assuming they are sitting near to me) is probably the biggest benefit. I feel this makes me more productive since more impromptu conversations can take place. Being able to listen in on any random coworker conversations and nerf gun battles is nice as well. However, on the few occasions when private space in necessary, then an office would be preferred. Of course, many others prefer individual offices to an open floor plan. Similar to living in a city or the suburbs (SF vs. Silicon Valley here in the Bay area), it is a personal preference that never ceases to divide people.

robyateson Neurosynaptic chips

Do you know if this group is still active? It looks like the webpage is out of date: http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/

robyateson How Did Einstein Think?

Reminds me of this Gladwell New Yorker article of Early and Late Bloomers: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_... (posted originally in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737724)

robyateson Ask HN: How might one transition from commercial software into research?

Also check out this old thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403031

robyateson Ask HN: How might one transition from commercial software into research?

Apply to CS grad schools. See if you can work with any researchers or professors that will lead to publishable work. Read through their papers so you can see what they are working on and try contact a few people that have the same interests you do. (You mentioned genetic algorithms, neural networks and functional programming.) I've trying to do the same thing at the moment. Contact info is in my profile if you have questions. Good luck!

robyateson If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet

Don't be fooled by the title. This is quite a good article about some of Google's early key engineers.

robyateson Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science

“A quarter of all undergraduates and more than 50% of graduate students [at Stanford] are engineering majors."

I can attest Stanford really feels like a tech school in disguise, especially at the graduate level.

robyateson Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

Ditto for me as non-Mac user as well. One neat feature might be to detect which operating system you use and display the appropriate shortcuts.

robyateson The best way to predict the future is to prevent it

You might be thinking of Wirth's Law. Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

robyateson How Depressives Surf the Web

Reminds me of how Lincoln dealt with depression: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/10/lincoln-...

robyateson Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"

Reminds me of this: http://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/

robyateson I Quit My Passion And Took A Boring Job

Agreed, insightful comment. Many people seem to fall into their current career path.

I've also been following Cal Newport's blog lately and talks lot about the "follow your passion" advice. For him, that really means one has "to construct — not discover — a fantastic career". http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/06/17/on-minecraft-and-the-l... http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/09/10/the-danger-of-the-drea...

robyateson Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

Very nice! I just discovered the talk and demo today. I noticed though that the rendering of the editor seems to vary across web browsers. The figure looks smaller and is positioned in the top-left in Firefox. But it's centered and looks otherwise normal in Chrome.

robyateson From College To Silicon Valley: Tips From A Veteran

There's HackersAndFounders.com, HackerDojo.com and a few others. Haven't been to that many events actually. I know a lot of startups coming out of Stanford though. Feel free to email me (contact info's in my profile) and I can put in you touch if you want.

robyateson Why Are Harvard Graduates In The Mailroom

"many graphic designers have been replaced by Photoshop" ... I'm not sure that's how it works.

robyateson From College To Silicon Valley: Tips From A Veteran

In each case I can perfectly well understand why I was passed over: I screwed something up, whether an algorithm on the whiteboard or incorrectly describing a certain data structure.

Most people move to Silicon Valley because they get positions at large companies that have budgets to fly them out. What many college students don't realize is that are many small startups struggling to hire people. They just aren't well known or have the resources to fly people from far away so they hire friends, students and engineers nearby.

If you really want to work in Silicon Valley, I'd say don't wait. Pay for you own plane ticket and spend a week or so in the area. Your perspective will definitely change.

robyateson Farewell Stack Exchange

Great post! +1 for the Felix Dennis reference.

robyateson How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify

Try Wubi (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer). Then you can simply choose between Ubunutu (for Rails development) or Windows (for everything else) during the boot up.

robyateson How to travel around the world for a year.

cgh, are there many software consulting companies around? I've been thinking of going that route myself, so I'm curious how you find them.

robyateson 7 years and no success. I need help.

Can't agree with this more. It's like trying to make a movie in Hollywood vs. everywhere else. Also, teach yourself to code if you can or take an intro CS course.

robyateson Search This Formula at Google

Must save that for valentine's day.

robyateson Ask HN: How to overcome strong feelings of worthlesness and inadequacy

Move to Silicon Valley. Seriously. I started reading Hacker News last year as well and decided back in September to leave my job and move here. Definitely a big decision but I don't regret it. The demand for engineers here far exceeds the supply, so you can work at almost anywhere you like.

If you can't move, then attend a Startup Weekend near you (http://www.startupweekend.org/). It's a great way to meet startup oriented folks. I thought there was no startup community in the midwest. But at Startup Weekend in Des Moines, IA and Kansas City, MO I met well over 100 people. Then I found out about Startup Digest, Silicon Prairie News, etc. If there is no startup community, create one. Find everyone you know that might be interested, create a Facebook and Meetup group and organize some startup meetings. You never know who you'll meet.