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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by aresant on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:28PM (#22774545)
"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk."

That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.

You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously!

Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, approachable and detailed technical fashion.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by ogre_codes on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:59PM (#22774750)
> That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by metaweta on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:32PM (#22774571)
Hahaha, thanks!
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by Expeditus419 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @03:37PM (#22780849)
I saw this post and initially skipped it because I know how crypto threads go on HN. Then saw on LinkedIn it was from you. Can confirm, this gent is a great engineer and is actually a nice guy.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by metaweta on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:07PM (#22817145)
Thanks!
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by hanniabu on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:48PM (#22774681)
> If you’ve got interesting technical analysis...

FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by dantillberg on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:56PM (#22774732)
"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by anyfoo on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:56PM (#22775575)
So correct, that I distinctively remember learning it from school books in English class in Germany.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by dkersten on Saturday April 04, 2020 @01:36PM (#22779893)
Germans tend to pronounce A's in English as if they were E's ("cat" is pronounced as "k-eh-t" instead of "k-ah-t" -- which I don't really understand since A in German is pronounced as "ah"), so I'm not sure if everything you learned in English class is correct ;-)
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by anyfoo on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:17PM (#22782300)
English class in Germany told me to pronounce it the "k-ah-t" way because they were primarily teaching British English, but I think a lot of exposure to US Media brings people to pronounce it "k-eh-t" (and maybe overdoing it in trying to do so).

That's another thing I distinctively remember from English class in Germany, being taught the British pronunciation that, at that young age, was much less familiar to me than American pronunciation, and some slight confusion around that.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by dkersten on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:17AM (#22793034)
Definitely overdoing it! :)

I’m a native (non-American) English speaker and the American pronunciation, to me, doesn’t sound like keht at all. (German was technically my first language, although English became my main language at an early age, so I’m quite used to German accents, so it’s definitely not caused by the native accents imho)

I once (when I was ~15 or so) had an argument with a kid who simply would not believe me that the letters C-A-T aren’t pronounced keht

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by anyfoo on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:10PM (#22799766)
The English books seemed to teach the correct thing, however, using the correct IPA and giving the correct hints. Just like with "I've got [something]".

It's also definitely not the case that the "a" in American English "cat" is pronounced like "a" usually is in German. In that case, the "a" sounds much closer to a German "e" then a German "a". The IPA for AE "cat" is kæt, not kat (where in some parts of Britain it actually is kat).

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by dkersten on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:32PM (#22826290)
Thanks, that was interesting :)
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by jambalayaman on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:05PM (#22781926)
Perhaps it is the american accent they are taught, americans would say keht. I always thought it was strange football was fussball in german, yet they'd call in soccer in english.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by dkersten on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:16AM (#22793026)
Except the American accent doesn’t say keht — maybe there’s a slight hint (cough accent) of it, but it’s very slight, while the German way sounds rather odd, I bet even to Americans.

The soccer thing is pretty funny though. :)

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by pbhjpbhj on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:54AM (#22778993)
FWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by YooLi on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:25PM (#22781220)
“You’ve got mail!”
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by mirimir on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:37PM (#22780408)
Yep, sure is.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by samatman on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:47AM (#22777044)
Not only that, but in speech, the 've is often dropped entirely, like "Hey if you got a few more minutes can I ask another question?"

I wouldn't write this, but I would absolutely say it, and it doesn't carry the rough affect of something like ain't.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by mirimir on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:38PM (#22780420)
I'd say "if y'all got".
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by samatman on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:53PM (#22781433)
To one person?
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by mirimir on Saturday April 04, 2020 @05:27PM (#22781669)
Yes. For many, it's "all y'all" ;)
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by andrepd on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:40PM (#22774972)
The issue is, I think, "you've got analysis" vs either "you've got an analysis" (singular) or "you've got analyses" (plural).

Still, pretty minor thing to nitpick about.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by wyattpeak on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:59PM (#22775066)
You're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by andrepd on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:40PM (#22775239)
So I am. I was reading off the GP's (incomplete) quotation it seems.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by Blake_Emigro on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:53PM (#22775837)
FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."

I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this should be, "if you have interesting technical analysis..."

Everyone can pick apart the mistakes of others, find mine!

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by wl on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:44PM (#22774993)
It may not be formal English, but it's idiomic language that a native speaker would use.

> Where have expresses a state rather than an event it is replaceable by the idiom have got.

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 2.5.6(c).

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by FroshKiller on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:53PM (#22774714)
Native American English speaker. "If you've got" like this is perfectly idiomatic.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by projektfu on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:20PM (#22774873)
You’ve got mail! —native English speaker
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by mrosett on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:50PM (#22775826)
Ha! Case closed I believe.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by nickysielicki on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:55PM (#22775051)
> If you’ve got the time... We’ve got the beer. Miller beer.

https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by tmountain on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:31PM (#22775188)
If you’ve got the money honey / I’ve got the time. —Willie Nelson (American Treasure)
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by cptaj on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:27AM (#22776590)
Sadly its not a well paid skill on average (As in, excluding famous youtubers or whatever)
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by VSerge on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:52AM (#22801205)
I share your sentiment. This seems to be a great engineer, storyteller, and a person able to make a complex technical story accessible to a layperson with only minimal dumbing down (except if I'm too ignorant to perceive the magnitude of the possible dumbing down, in which case, oh well).

In any case, dear author, thanks for the write up, it makes for great reading, and I hope you receive offers for endeavors that give you as much intellectual stimulation as it is useful to society at large, and a large enough paycheck.

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by antonzabirko on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:18PM (#22774864)
What's different from other CVs? Seems similar to pitches on most personal sites.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:25PM (#22774897)
This "CV" is the embodiment of show, don't tell: it's a lot more convincing than a bullet point saying "experienced cryptographer".
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by antonzabirko on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:58PM (#22775063)
Yeah but that's because you're on his site. Go on other personal sites and you will experience the same, no?
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by adamweld on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:52AM (#22777059)
He didn't say it was the only job pitch that he'd read at the end of an article. He said it was the best one.
Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by antonzabirko on Saturday April 04, 2020 @12:18PM (#22779187)
I didn't say it was the only one he read, i was asking how it's any better than all the other same ones lol.