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Dear HN: Please Fucking Hire Me To Do Anything

14 points by KennethMyers 13y ago

visaking1 13y ago
do you have a visa?
- pmtarantino 13y ago
  redditor since 2 minutes ago. Oops, wrong community.
  - KennethMyers 13y ago
    Huh? Oh, the visa asking guy, not me, right?
    - TallboyOne 13y ago
      He's referring to visaking (his username is green, meaning new)
- KennethMyers 13y ago
  I have a passport, and I'm a US citizen.
fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
Do a startup translating Terms of Service documents (like fb needs to do) and other business related webpage stuff.
thufry 13y ago
This is the wrong approach -- why not take a job as an ESL teacher (you won't find many people here hiring for that) by searching in the right channels?
- KennethMyers 13y ago
  I'm looking for other jobs too. I can do lots of things.
  - siddboots 13y ago
    I don't care what the critics are saying. I'm a fan of this Kenneth Myers fellow.
  - thufry 13y ago
    Your ad seems to suggest desperation -- "I need cash right now." That's not a bad thing to say, but when you're in that situation you should be playing in your wheelhouse. If you're not desperate, you should reword your ad to emphasize the fact that you're trying to broaden your search. There's an incoherence in the message.
losethos 13y ago
The only BTC I know is bit-test-and-compliment. I have yet to use it, maybe once. BTS and BTR are shorter instructions for AND and OR in certain cases. A person who has written a compiler is in a different league.
serf 13y ago
"On the other hand, JPEG may not be as well suited for line drawings and other textual or iconic graphics, where the sharp contrasts between adjacent pixels can cause noticeable artifacts. Such images may be better saved in a lossless graphics format such as TIFF, GIF, PNG, or a raw image format. The JPEG standard actually includes a lossless coding mode, but that mode is not supported in most products." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg
- KennethMyers 13y ago
  Yep, this is not the stuff I'm good at. Correct.
ynoclo 13y ago
"I'm good at communicating." Really? If I were your prospective employer, I'd be wondering just how often the f-bomb finds its way into your communications, and why you thought it was appropriate to drop twice in a job appeal. Please take this as a constructive criticism of your approach.
- KennethMyers 13y ago
  An employer who thought the f-bomb in a hacker news post spoke poorly of my communicative abilities would not be my ideal employer.
icu 13y ago
I think you got balls for this posting, however I agree with ynoclo. Although the f-bomb is an attention getter it is also a turn off since you could have--at the very least--used asterisks for an equally attention grabbing title and omitted it entirely from your profile.

14 points by KennethMyers 13y ago

visaking1 13y ago

do you have a visa?

pmtarantino 13y ago
redditor since 2 minutes ago. Oops, wrong community.
- KennethMyers 13y ago
  Huh? Oh, the visa asking guy, not me, right?
  - TallboyOne 13y ago
    He's referring to visaking (his username is green, meaning new)
KennethMyers 13y ago
I have a passport, and I'm a US citizen.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago

Do a startup translating Terms of Service documents (like fb needs to do) and other business related webpage stuff.

thufry 13y ago

This is the wrong approach -- why not take a job as an ESL teacher (you won't find many people here hiring for that) by searching in the right channels?

KennethMyers 13y ago
I'm looking for other jobs too. I can do lots of things.
- siddboots 13y ago
  I don't care what the critics are saying. I'm a fan of this Kenneth Myers fellow.
- thufry 13y ago
  Your ad seems to suggest desperation -- "I need cash right now." That's not a bad thing to say, but when you're in that situation you should be playing in your wheelhouse. If you're not desperate, you should reword your ad to emphasize the fact that you're trying to broaden your search. There's an incoherence in the message.

losethos 13y ago

The only BTC I know is bit-test-and-compliment. I have yet to use it, maybe once. BTS and BTR are shorter instructions for AND and OR in certain cases. A person who has written a compiler is in a different league.

serf 13y ago

"On the other hand, JPEG may not be as well suited for line drawings and other textual or iconic graphics, where the sharp contrasts between adjacent pixels can cause noticeable artifacts. Such images may be better saved in a lossless graphics format such as TIFF, GIF, PNG, or a raw image format. The JPEG standard actually includes a lossless coding mode, but that mode is not supported in most products." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg

KennethMyers 13y ago
Yep, this is not the stuff I'm good at. Correct.

ynoclo 13y ago

"I'm good at communicating." Really? If I were your prospective employer, I'd be wondering just how often the f-bomb finds its way into your communications, and why you thought it was appropriate to drop twice in a job appeal. Please take this as a constructive criticism of your approach.

KennethMyers 13y ago
An employer who thought the f-bomb in a hacker news post spoke poorly of my communicative abilities would not be my ideal employer.

icu 13y ago

I think you got balls for this posting, however I agree with ynoclo. Although the f-bomb is an attention getter it is also a turn off since you could have--at the very least--used asterisks for an equally attention grabbing title and omitted it entirely from your profile.