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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020) on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:47PM (#21940789)
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: [email protected]

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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? :)

Re:How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:07AM (#15181370)
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.

Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:55PM (#15177551)
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?

Re:Show HN: Language Learning with Music and Lyrics on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:20AM (#14190983)
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?"

Re:Ask HN: What does Senior Developer mean exactly? on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:56AM (#13667151)
So, basically, Senior Developer === Getting Things Done?

Ask HN: What does Senior Developer mean exactly?

Recently, I read a couple of articles about a role of Senior Developer but honestly can't fully understand what's this all about.Some articles suggested that it's a set of skills when one can choose best-fit technology stack and get a project done. Some suggested that it's all about leading a team (but why do we have Team Lead then?).Personally, I've been working as a web developer for 9 years...

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Re:Ask HN: Unreal Engine or Unity for Long-Term VR Project? on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:46PM (#13464719)
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.

Ask HN: Unreal Engine or Unity for Long-Term VR Project?

I'm a software developer and this is my first experience with 3D and VR. I planned to create a small prototype for Social VR project and I want to find the best fit for that.They both seem equally good at first glance and the underlying languages (C++/Blueprint and C#) are not the problem.Does anybody know pros and cons of these engines when it comes to VR?

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Re:Ask HN: Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice? on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:49AM (#13443726)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017) on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:30PM (#13303208)
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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: [email protected]

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Name's Anton, feel free to contact me.

Re:Ask HN: What's your plan for 2017? on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:01AM (#13299954)
Thanks, very helpful! Didn't know about FluentU.
Re:Ask HN: What's your plan for 2017? on Sunday January 01, 2017 @01:31PM (#13296658)
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.

Re:Show HN: ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:32AM (#13262584)
That's awesome, nice work!

Personally, can't say I understand image pre-processing well but did you notice that original Petros Vrellis images have deeper black color in some parts like face edges or hair and much lighter parts in cheeks and foreheads which creates a more detailed portrait?

Also, this name reminds me Jason Bourne movies as they have Operation Treadstone there.