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Programmer/Jack Of All Trades Seeks Employment
(Read to the tune of Unannounced YC Company seeking first hire (programmer/jack of all trades))
I’m not highly publicized but you may have heard of me (some have). I’m employed, and I’m looking to move to a more challenging position. It’s cliché, but I want to tackle difficult problems. Not everything I work on is hard, of course, but I like doing new things in new ways and pushing my boundries.
Depending on the task, I usually program in Perl (fluently), Python (basic) and know my way around a Linux system; I like programming /and/ systems administration. I’m flexible.
I like companies who do interesting things. I like writing software that doesn’t explode, but understand the pros of getting something written quickly to prove a point.
I don’t like being put in a box, and like to work on systems administration, server optimization and programming. I’m not a Rock Star programmer like Matt Trout or Randal Schwartz, but I can write PostgesSQL, MySQL and SQLite schemas, and have a keen intuition that helps when solving customer-problems, or debugging odd situations. I want to learn more.
Are you profitable? Run by really smart people? Do your customers love you? Do you like pina coladas?
If you’re interested in hiring someone who’s pretty decent and work around Santa Monica send an email about your company to symkat@symkat.com
- nl 16y agoI'm getting a Javascript alert on your webpage (http://symkat.com http://symkat.com). Something about being "unable to find a syntax highlighter for brush" (Chrome on Windows)
- symkat 16y agoI'm unable to replicate this on Chrome under Mac. Can you post a screencap? Was the root domain the URI you got the error on? Are you able to access the following URLs: http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushPerl.js http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushPerl... http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushBash.js http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushBash...
- nl 16y agoSorry, cannot reproduce, now. The root domain was where I got the error. I can access two urls now, but I can't exclude the possibility I couldn't when I saw the error (my network is occasionally less-than-reliable)
- Tyr42 16y agoI also cannot reproduce in chrome for Win7, Opera 10.63, nor Safari for Win7, I am getting what looks like a few CSS errors in FF, but no JS ones. "Warning: Error in parsing value for 'width'. Declaration dropped." Site look super ugly in IE9, which is supposed to be standards compliment, yet it looks like crap. Could it have been the syntax highlighter[1] that broke? [1][http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/ http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/]
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