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I looked it your profile, your profile pic matches the question searchable results on the 3rd link regarding a police report There's nothing on yolur blog disp

I looked it your profile, your profile pic matches the question searchable results on the 3rd link regarding a police report There's nothing on yolur blog disputing any of the claims either. That's usually not a good sign either... its basically admitting that the story is the truth Also while I like the blog its just information overload. There's no use of white space, no space to "rest". It feels like your throwing everything at me when I didn't ask for all of it. I just want to know a little bit about you as a person, not all your thought processes. It needs a gentler introduction imo, its too brutalist. Also forces your brain to read left to right, most people naturally read straight downward / scroll down. The portfolio section is very well done though. There's benefits in not throwing a single page portfolio as well. I spread mine across several pages. You can choose to find out what you want to know about me. I use a barebones simple template so I can throw my own uniqueness into it The blog posts... they give me headaches reading it. The content is far too short and frequent, so I'm constantly seeing the footer move around too often. It gets really fatiguing. I get the general impression that the potential employer will feel you have too many random ideas tossed on the table. The rule of thumb is have a 5min read or 750-1500 word count. There are some rules to that exception though, just be aware people have short attention spans, myself included. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A blog represents you as a person. It gives the impression that you know how to build stuff efficiently, and can pickup any programming language quickly. However, your blog essentially states that you only love coding and not much else really. It also gives the impression that you like asserting yourself onto people, because there's no white space, the UX is too brutalist. The questionable 3rd google link fits the same persona (with photo verification), you don't dispute it either. This gives the impression while you might be great as a solo-developer, working in teams might have cultural fit issues. It might not even be you, you might work really well in a team. Or an interesting person that people enjoy having around. However it might just be employees at the company who might outright not want to work with you based on social media stigmas. I have been both on the hiring and interviewing side many times before. My impression is not unique, its probably what most recruiters assume as well. Some companies would rather have someone more rounded with interests across other spectrums. Your best interest would be hiring a firm specializing in SEO and pushing negative results downward. Something like this, I just googled around for you. https://www.abine.com/blog/2017/push-negative-search-results-down/ https://www.abine.com/blog/2017/push-negative-search-results... I have a generic firstName and lastName, in fact there's many more famous people with my name. I never have to worry about silly google searches, I get to control my branding however I like which is convenient. Your name on the other hand ... is very unique. This is both good and bad, if you become famous its easy for people to recognize your name. But for you its a bad thing.

sdegutis 8y ago
Yes, those articles are the reason 99% of the jobs offered to me were rescinded. But I was speaking at first of the ones where I failed the whiteboard or algorithm test. Despite the fact that the articles are highly exaggerated and contain much inaccurate information, what I actually did wrong was still enough to put it in people's minds that they will never be comfortable around me. There is no actual path for redemption for me in society. I have come to accept this. It would be great if I could get those articles pushed off the google search for me, but it's never going to happen. Since I can't get work, we are consistently below negative in our bank account. Last month we passed -$700. We still have bills from July that haven't been paid yet, including electric and natural gas. All your suggestions for improving my portfolio site are great, but at this point there's no reason to put any more time into that site. I built it to get me a job, and it's clear I won't get a job ever again. The only client I have, I have because he's a good person who looks at me as a human being and sees the good in me, and is excited to get my talent at this good of a deal. I could lie. I could change my name and not tell companies about my past. Then I would be able to make 100-150k. I could make it if I choose to be unethical. But I won't. Because despite what everyone thinks of me, and despite whatever happens to me, I am trying to be a good person and do right. I was hoping that would show through in my character throughout all my blog posts and posts on HN and everywhere. I guess it did to some extend, because I do have that one client.
- Kagerjay 8y ago
  The algorithms test or whiteboards I struggle as well. Math is not my strong suit either. I have never been on that side of the fence where I have been incarcerated or put on an offender list. This could happen to anyone, you could just be taking a piss in the woods after a long night of drinking and be placed on that list. You could just be working out in an open gym park, have your fly down, forget it was there and cause public indecency to minors. Everyone will just assume the same - that you are a pedophile regardless if it was true, or even intentional, or just a one off mistake I can't relate to your bank account issues personally, I have been lucky in that I have not had to worry about finances in the negative. Dealing with paycheck by paycheck is very draining mentally, I do nonprofit work with people who are disadvantaged, low income, or are homeless. I imagine you don't have a lot of free time in your day either. Portfolio is actually fine for what it is, I might have overexaggerated about fixes that needed to be made. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I really think the "lie" part is a little opinionated though. I do not think there is such a thing as ethical marketing at all. I don't draw the lines between black and white either, its just a gray zone for me. I lived a lot of my life telling lies not because I wanted to, because I didn't have a choice in the matter. I still try to do good and live by a set of rules though, but I realize things don't work out that way. Sometimes life just sucks and you are just unlucky and were in the wrong place and wrong time. You have all the skills a potential employer wants. My friend told me this same advice to me as well - You are limiting yourself. You are holding yourself back. I have had similar yet different problems, I am socially shy on social media, but I only recently started blogging and rebranding myself under one social media name (vincentntang). I have had a very complicated past, I have never been understood most of my life, I do see where you are coming from to some extent. I dumped it here if you are curious http://vincentmtang.com/2018/08/13/story-of-my-life/ http://vincentmtang.com/2018/08/13/story-of-my-life/. Throwing all your eggs in one basket, one client, is just a disaster waiting to happen, especially with your financial situation. He might be a good person at heart or just taking an economic advantage over your situation. You said it yourself, because I get the job done fast and well and for cheap. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Changing your name and using social media branding is unethical, but I would argue what HR is doing to potential employees is even more unethical. I think its not fair either for someone to assume who you are based on one past incident either. I got sick of dealing with people assuming things about me so that's why I mostly blog, its to tell the stories from my perspective. I don't talk about webtechnologies half the time, many times its just snippets of stories from my life. Debatedly I want to start doing things on youtube again as well, so I can share more tidbits of things that interest me Most of your articles are opinion pieces, but where are all the adventures and stories of how you learned XYZ or struggled with dealing with incarceration? People would love to hear your stories, and your struggles, it makes you more relateable. I wouldn't use HN as a means to this end though, I mostly use HN to hash out potential stories I want to write about. You aren't the only person with incarceration problems though. There's a whole network of developers who have been incarcerated, here on this job search tool. https://www.70millionjobs.com/ https://www.70millionjobs.com/

sdegutis 8y ago

Yes, those articles are the reason 99% of the jobs offered to me were rescinded. But I was speaking at first of the ones where I failed the whiteboard or algorithm test. Despite the fact that the articles are highly exaggerated and contain much inaccurate information, what I actually did wrong was still enough to put it in people's minds that they will never be comfortable around me. There is no actual path for redemption for me in society. I have come to accept this. It would be great if I could get those articles pushed off the google search for me, but it's never going to happen. Since I can't get work, we are consistently below negative in our bank account. Last month we passed -$700. We still have bills from July that haven't been paid yet, including electric and natural gas. All your suggestions for improving my portfolio site are great, but at this point there's no reason to put any more time into that site. I built it to get me a job, and it's clear I won't get a job ever again. The only client I have, I have because he's a good person who looks at me as a human being and sees the good in me, and is excited to get my talent at this good of a deal. I could lie. I could change my name and not tell companies about my past. Then I would be able to make 100-150k. I could make it if I choose to be unethical. But I won't. Because despite what everyone thinks of me, and despite whatever happens to me, I am trying to be a good person and do right. I was hoping that would show through in my character throughout all my blog posts and posts on HN and everywhere. I guess it did to some extend, because I do have that one client.

Kagerjay 8y ago
The algorithms test or whiteboards I struggle as well. Math is not my strong suit either. I have never been on that side of the fence where I have been incarcerated or put on an offender list. This could happen to anyone, you could just be taking a piss in the woods after a long night of drinking and be placed on that list. You could just be working out in an open gym park, have your fly down, forget it was there and cause public indecency to minors. Everyone will just assume the same - that you are a pedophile regardless if it was true, or even intentional, or just a one off mistake I can't relate to your bank account issues personally, I have been lucky in that I have not had to worry about finances in the negative. Dealing with paycheck by paycheck is very draining mentally, I do nonprofit work with people who are disadvantaged, low income, or are homeless. I imagine you don't have a lot of free time in your day either. Portfolio is actually fine for what it is, I might have overexaggerated about fixes that needed to be made. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I really think the "lie" part is a little opinionated though. I do not think there is such a thing as ethical marketing at all. I don't draw the lines between black and white either, its just a gray zone for me. I lived a lot of my life telling lies not because I wanted to, because I didn't have a choice in the matter. I still try to do good and live by a set of rules though, but I realize things don't work out that way. Sometimes life just sucks and you are just unlucky and were in the wrong place and wrong time. You have all the skills a potential employer wants. My friend told me this same advice to me as well - You are limiting yourself. You are holding yourself back. I have had similar yet different problems, I am socially shy on social media, but I only recently started blogging and rebranding myself under one social media name (vincentntang). I have had a very complicated past, I have never been understood most of my life, I do see where you are coming from to some extent. I dumped it here if you are curious http://vincentmtang.com/2018/08/13/story-of-my-life/ http://vincentmtang.com/2018/08/13/story-of-my-life/. Throwing all your eggs in one basket, one client, is just a disaster waiting to happen, especially with your financial situation. He might be a good person at heart or just taking an economic advantage over your situation. You said it yourself, because I get the job done fast and well and for cheap. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Changing your name and using social media branding is unethical, but I would argue what HR is doing to potential employees is even more unethical. I think its not fair either for someone to assume who you are based on one past incident either. I got sick of dealing with people assuming things about me so that's why I mostly blog, its to tell the stories from my perspective. I don't talk about webtechnologies half the time, many times its just snippets of stories from my life. Debatedly I want to start doing things on youtube again as well, so I can share more tidbits of things that interest me Most of your articles are opinion pieces, but where are all the adventures and stories of how you learned XYZ or struggled with dealing with incarceration? People would love to hear your stories, and your struggles, it makes you more relateable. I wouldn't use HN as a means to this end though, I mostly use HN to hash out potential stories I want to write about. You aren't the only person with incarceration problems though. There's a whole network of developers who have been incarcerated, here on this job search tool. https://www.70millionjobs.com/ https://www.70millionjobs.com/