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Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

533 points by MarekDlugos 11y ago

buraksarica 11y ago
This kid will go places.
- therobot24 11y ago
  seriously, that's a great looking resume - though it would be nice if i could click on one of the skills (e.g., Print Design) and see some examples
  - MarekDlugos 11y ago
    Thank you guys! :) I will probably add this feature or just send people more detailed portfolio via e-mail.
    - logicallee 11y ago
      you are getting feature requests. Are you getting serious offers?
      - mbesto 11y ago
        Seriously. Marek, if you're reading this - get a full-time job. People will pay you serious money for your work and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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  - buraksarica 11y ago
    He is the swiss knife of the interns..
blt 11y ago
Personal Branding!
tomw1808 11y ago
Now, I love that design ... it looks like we could never afford you. :)
johnloeber 11y ago
Just fyi, you have a typo on your "What can I bring to your team?" page. You misspelled "radically" as "radicaly". Otherwise it looks great -- good going! Very impressive for a high-school student.
- ARCarr 11y ago
  And on his resume under Design Skills it says "Web Desing" not "Web Design".
- rxt 11y ago
  Also "databeses" in the "Experience with databeses" line.
  - pidg 11y ago
    Databese should be an alternate term for big data.
    - psylence519 11y ago
      This needs to happen.
      - sarciszewski 11y ago
        New CV item: coined the avant garde term "databese".
        aclissold 11y ago
        Perilously close to the politically-incorrect "databetes."
    - ljk 11y ago
      how about Databetes?
- tdsamardzhiev 11y ago
zaszrespawned 11y ago
Talk about being web savvy at intern age..
- pistle 11y ago
  I increasingly come to expect this sort of product since kids coming up expect their products to be like this. He may be a leader in this, but the group coming up definitely will be demonstrating the "Yes, and..." attitude in terms of design and features. The new kids invigorate the game, which is great.
xmpirate 11y ago
Hey your resume looks impressive. Can you tell me how you made the resume? Latex or anything? The design and presentation of skills is great! I'm 20 too and want to update my resume.
- saigrandhi 11y ago
  I think he used InDesign or some other software like that.
- phaemon 11y ago
  Creator : PDF Presentation Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
sheepmaniac 11y ago
Small advice: do something with those brackets. They are in the middle of the page and their misalignment with coding skills section is infuriating (at least for me).
diimdeep 11y ago
Personal Branding well done.
thomasahle 11y ago
I like the star graph in the bottom a lot :)
jonathanpoulter 11y ago
From the page source:  Nice.
- tokenizerrr 11y ago
  Honestly I was a little disappointed with a disclaimer like that: https://i.imgur.com/vqz9wRX.png https://i.imgur.com/vqz9wRX.png
  - tjbiddle 11y ago
    Looks like those are spaces, while everything else is tabs. Probably has his editor set tabs to 4 spaces where it matches up - Easy to overlook unless you have your editor show spaces with a character.
Bahamut 11y ago
You should remove the word "with" from those titles - the bullet points don't flow properly when appended to the titles
- CPLX 11y ago
  Listen to this person. This is the one glaring thing I noticed, it makes your wording sound stereotypically Eastern European, and is jarring in comparison to a document that otherwise flows quite well.
karnajani 11y ago
This is awesome. I'm not in CA, but I hope a team over there picks you up.
- chrisper 11y ago
  I don't think that would happen as there are enough people here seeking for an internship.
danielvinson 11y ago
FYI in the US it is considered inappropriate to have your picture on a resume.
- simonswords82 11y ago
  Good job he's not in the US then :)
- crusso 11y ago
  If he were sending a standard printed resume through the mail then you might have a point. This online version is something different and I doubt that anyone looking for talent would disqualify him for having his picture on there.
  - nilkn 11y ago
    I'll be completely honest and say that it makes me feel slightly awkward because it's a major component of the resume and yet is completely irrelevant for deciding if he's qualified or not. To me, it's distracting and actually makes me feel slightly pressured to cut him some slack because he put in extra effort on making the resume pretty. All that said, for someone who hasn't even started college yet, I think every little extra bit helps. I would never recommend this for an experienced hire or someone who's had several internships already in college, but for someone trying to break in for the first time any way you can find of displaying your interest and passion is going to help some.
    - hn_ 11y ago
      I have to be honest here.... I review resumes and have a say in hiring decisions in my company. I would probably have a tendency to disregard this resume because of the picture. It is pretty distracting and frankly makes me uncomfortable. I don't wish to evaluate a candidate based on their looks but this one says "my looks are important to my job qualifications." Perhaps I'm old fashion and this is over the top but it just rubs me the wrong way and I feel the "type" of candidate who includes a picture like that isn't the "type" of candidate I'd like to have on my team. It comes off to me as narcissistic. Perhaps the younger, hipper crowd appreciates this sort of thing - if you are going for that type of work. Long established companies might pass this one up. I might be completely out in left field here though.
Raphmedia 11y ago
This is better than the websites of half the web agencies out there.
soneca 11y ago
Your page looks great because you have great skills and achievements to show. Remember that. You are getting A LOT of attention in HN, that will sure be picked up by another places on the interwebs. So, my piece of advice: do not use this fame and fall in temptation to start capitalizaing solely on your personal brand, giving lectures, interviews, writing books on how to be hired by the hottest startups and other distractions. Keep focusing on working hard to build things. You are doing a great job on this so far. Congrats!
- themodelplumber 11y ago
  If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...
  - Retra 11y ago
    Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.
    - 5435434553 11y ago
      Do you live in a fairy world? The point of writing and publishing books is TO MAKE MONEY. Nobody cares about your opinions.
      - Retra 11y ago
        Well, feel free to waste your life and time writing a book for money. I will be the first person in line to never buy such a book.
- thesagan 11y ago
porter 11y ago
Congrats. You put a lot of American job seeking college kids to shame.
- EricSu 11y ago
  I'm a 20yo college student...definitely feeling inferior for not being this proactive as a high schooler. But I'm currently in my second internship and I can definitely say I got hired because of personal projects such as this that highlight your skills and your interest in using those skills inside and outside of class/work environments, so great job and good luck!
- jacks205 11y ago
  This guy is selling out hard. Coming from a guy with a more active GitHub and projects, I don't see how this guy is any different than any American college kid.
  - kidsthesedays 11y ago
    He isn't much different from a run of the mill college kid. He just has a "startup style" website with gratuitous pictures of himself all over it. It's called "personal marketing." Apparently software engineers are supposed to do that nowadays - our code no longer speaks for itself.
    - jcliff 11y ago
      code still speaks for itself. it just has to be framed and delivered to an audience. your side project that's sitting on your hard drive or even your unpublicized github account isn't doing you any good.
      - kidsthesedays 11y ago
        Um... I am old and I don't have time to work on side projects - I have dying parents I need to spend time with because I won't get that time back. I have friends that live all over the East Coast now and visiting them is very important and now time consuming. My point is this is incredibly superficial and the stuff that matters (his actual work) gets lost in all the needless fluff. Plus I'm too busy getting my actual work done to "market" myself.
daddykotex 11y ago
From the source :  Hahah, you sure know HN! Good luck!
alpacaaa 11y ago
Wish you best of luck dude, very well done.
Johnie 11y ago
Since he's from Slovakia, does he have the visa status to work in the US? Will a startup go through H1-B process for a summer intern? Also, if he doesn't go through the formal visa process and tries to do his summer internship with a visitor visa, he may be banned from the US for 10 years. Given that he's publicly publicizing coming to the US to work, it would be very easy for USCIS to block his entry into the US.
- c0g 11y ago
  Having just got a J1 visa myself, he'd be well served with J1. It lets you work in the US for up to 6 months in an internship. Might still be time!
  - ylem 11y ago
    But will it cause him any problems if he wants to come to the US to work or go to school in the near term after his internship? From what I remember, don't J1 visas require you to return to your home country for a certain period of time? It was something we (in the US) worried about when thinking about having an intern from India who was planning to attend graduate school in the US in a year or so...
    - DougBTX 11y ago
      Yes, http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange...
    - c0g 11y ago
      I don't think so, Slovakia isn't on the skills list[0] [0] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/exchange/exchange-visitor-skills-list.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange...
  - jrm2k6 11y ago
    I think it takes time though to apply for the J1 visa. I remember the process to get mine being 6-7 weeks and I was interning for a UC university, meaning they have 'easy' access to it.
sebg 11y ago
Great work! One thing - pretty much everything you wrote is about you...Which is great, but it would be more compelling if removed any mention of yourself and made it all about the company who is going to hire you.
elchief 11y ago
I managed to graduate high school near the end of the early 90s recession, university at the beginning of the dot com bust, and B-School in the beginning of the 2008 meltdown. I promise to never to go back to school again.
thescrewdriver 11y ago
> "There is still 1 month, 1 day, 6 hours, 55 minutes and 21 seconds until summer, which gives me a lot of time to learn new skills that you might need!" Awesome attitude towards learning new skills!
kenrick 11y ago
Really nice job. Fix the instagram link :)
thornofmight 11y ago
Why do you want to intern? Seems like with your skills you could just work (and get paid for) a real job.
- jvehent 11y ago
  I don't know if that's the case here, but a lot of European colleges require summer internships. Compensation is sometimes permitted, but status of employment must be an internship.
  - TkTech 11y ago
    He may be implying that he might as well work now and do college later if he feels like it. I went this course. I started working in my current office as a high school co-op and 4-5 years later I'm still here. I might as well work now earning a good salary and go to college whenever I feel like it.
  - neoromantique 11y ago
    Uhh, I've never seen that to be the case and I'm from Europe.
    - contergan 11y ago
      Germany here. I know plenty of people that have done internships because their degree required it.
      - neoromantique 11y ago
        After or during studies, yes, but not as pre-requisite.
    - yuncun 11y ago
      Europe big place
  - hn_ 11y ago
    I'm from the US and my school required 1 year co-op experience as a pre-req for completing the degree.
HNdev1995 11y ago
Where are you hosting this website?
spacecadet 11y ago
You must have ideas? Skip all this and just run with one of those.
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mholt 11y ago
Brilliant work. I wish I had your skills at 19. The photography and design mesh perfectly well together. I bet you will have no problem getting to the USA to study and work.
- HNdev1995 11y ago
  For work - what about H1B visa? Even if a company agrees to go through the process, he still has a slim chance of getting the visa, right? I am just trying to familiarise myself to the process since I will be going through it next year.
  - chrisper 11y ago
    You need a bachelors degree in order to get an H1B.
    - jrm2k6 11y ago
      And more than that, not enough spots for everybody. Big companies are going to get most of them no? Especially for an intern, it is almost impossible.
      - chrisper 11y ago
        No company is going to waste thousands of $ to hire an intern. Most H1B go to those fake Indian companies and Google etc.
- pierotofy 11y ago
  As long as you have enough money to pay tuition without scholarships (and paying the non-resident rate)... sure! Being sarcastic here, finding a job (or studying as an undergraduate) in the U.S. as a foreigner unfortunately has very little to do with skills. Unless you have something very unique that a company decides to seek you out for!
logicallee 11y ago
and they say geography isn't destiny. a design like this can get a solo founder a $2M valuation on an idea in the valley (making him an instant millionaire), whereas a slovakian is trying hard to close an internsihp (meaning he hasn't gotten $8/hr, or 1/250000th of that amount.) 1/250000th.
- SomeCollegeBro 11y ago
  I think you need a little bit more than a website to get a valuation...
  - radicality 11y ago
    Not if your product is... a website, like many startups are.
    - justathrow2k 11y ago
      These companies products generally aren't simply a website - their web sites serve as a catalyst for delivering an actual product that provides functionality. The link is question isn't a product hosted on the web, its simply a personal website.
- justathrow2k 11y ago
  A design like that coupled with a product that people think has some value, perhaps.
  - logicallee 11y ago
    Yes, of course. I said "on an idea" meaning a product that people think has some value -- but nothing more than this web site design around that idea.
andrewmcwatters 11y ago
Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time positions. You clearly don't know what you've got.
- ohitsdom 11y ago
  Interesting, how did you even catch this?
  - andrewmcwatters 11y ago
    Visual Idiot is a notable name in the design community. It would be like stealing from Tobias Van Schneider or something. You can't get past people in the know.
    - ohitsdom 11y ago
      But how did you even make the connection? I don't see the text "Visual Idiot" anywhere. And were you just browsing his js files? Or did the UI of the site feel familiar?
      - ohitsdom 11y ago
        Ah, I just went to http://vaguelyexciting.com/ http://vaguelyexciting.com/. I'm assuming you recognized the moving dots/lines and made then connection yourself, then compared JS files to confirm.
      - BinaryIdiot 11y ago
        If you go to the Visual Idiot site it has the same background effect so if you've looked at both sites it would be a pretty easy observation.
whoisthemachine 11y ago
Great resume. I agree with the others, I am jealous of the skills you have displayed at your age.
thesimon 11y ago
Your page looks great, the photo is really nice and the mailto title is a nice touch. <shamelessplug> I should've thought about submitting to HN too :) http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/ http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/
- endymi0n 11y ago
  Sounds like you could have fun with our team at JustWatch... </shameless self plug> Just sayin :)
dcre 11y ago
Very nice. Just one tip – in one of your testimonials Cristina uses the word "pedant". She probably meant you're good with details (or that you're a good teacher), but at least in the US, that word almost always has the negative connotation of being too concerned with details. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant
agounaris 11y ago
I hope this will not be the start of a spam-fest by others. Good luck with your job seeking.
ttty 11y ago
>Experience with databeses Typo in "databeses" Good looking resume (:
lachenmayer 11y ago
Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like? We at HackCampus http://hackcampus.io/ http://hackcampus.io/ could offer you a 10-week internship at some amazing startups (GoCardless, SwiftKey, Kano and more) in London this summer. It's well-paid, and we'll give you free accommodation over the summer with a batch of other awesome student hackers like yourself. http://hackcampus.io/internship/ http://hackcampus.io/internship/ I can give you more details over email, harry at hackcampus.io :)
- krmmalik 11y ago
  Do you have any students or know or any place that would be interested in interning for digital marketing, growth hacking, social media related work? And does the payment come from the start-up or from sort of fund you have setup? Would love to chat further if you have time. Kam[at]krmmalik dot com Thank you.
- neoromantique 11y ago
  #Not Marek Wanted to apply on your website, during registration received error 500, then CSRF verification failed. Request Aborted. And then My username is taken. Reproduce-able too, I guess I should stop being admin and go into QA? :D
  - lachenmayer 11y ago
    Thanks, we just found out! This definitely worked for several weeks previously, ha. We're looking into it right now.
- quadrature 11y ago
  Is this only for students in the UK ?
  - ainsej 11y ago
    Nope, anybody who is legally allowed to work in the UK (so EU member states included)
hamandcheese 11y ago
Now you can add "Made it to the HN front page" to your resume!
cozuya 11y ago
Guess I'll be that guy - the design and content is nice and well done, but this is just bootstrap copy/paste to me; I don't see a lot of "coding talent" evident. Not to say he doesn't have it, but creating a site like this basically requires finding a similar one and learning what classes to put into your bootstrap markup.
- yuncun 11y ago
  tbf he is looking for an internship
- justathrow2k 11y ago
  For what its worth, I agree with you. That is to say, I feel like a lot of the people here giving out praise are being a bit excessive with it and this is simply a flavour of the day paint by numbers web page. Still, it's a good effort for a kid in college looking to get an internship.
ChristianGeek 11y ago
Very impressive...If your skills are as good as you claim, I'd hire you full-time now if I had an opening; you may want to reconsider whether finishing school is a worthwhile investment of your time and money. One small tip on your site: Get rid of the word "with" in the "I can help you with" headings. It's grammatically incorrect for the way your lists are phrased, and having "I can help you" appear three times on the page is a nice subliminal message!
nickysielicki 11y ago
As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile App - where can I see it? * upload.it - URL definitely does not resolve to the site pictured. * School Site - where can I see it? * eStavebny Dennik - See, this one's real and it's awesome! http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/ http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/ EDIT: They do exist, disregard this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684 I've mocked websites and apps before too, but I always am sure to note that I've mocked it, not built it. If you're a front end web designer, there's no shame in that, there's a lot you can do with that. This site and eStavebny are more than enough to impress people. If the other stuff was available to look at, that'd be cool too. But don't mislead people, because if they're going to hire you, they are going to want to look deeper. Last month my dad was telling me about the interns he was interviewing for this summer. He said he was most frustrated by the amount of overselling that these kids were doing for themselves. No, your management experience of managing your highschool robotics team is not relevant at a fortune 500 company. Related to this is the problem with college admissions. Everyone has a 4.0 with multiple APs and played varsity sports and can write a boring essay. Everyone is afraid to admit what they don't know. And I don't mean unknown unknowns, I mean known unknowns. I'm coexisting in this problem just as much as you are, and I just want to say that I hate this. I wish we could all be honest with our skills and I wish employers would appreciate that honesty more. But we can't afford to be modest and honest, so I guess can't fault you for doing what we all do. It's like steroids in baseball.
- silverbax88 11y ago
  I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.
  - ElComradio 11y ago
    I have no (public) github account and I approve this message.
vdnkh 11y ago
This is great, I'm making my first website now and you've given me a lot of great ideas for design. And made me feel bad about mine!
- hn_ 11y ago
  Here's some more ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856
agentultra 11y ago
Nice looking site! One piece of advice: don't put C, C++, etc on your resume unless you're really comfortable with those languages and want to focus on them. Your resume highlights your design skills and projects using web technologies. Great! Focus on those! For example, your Github has no examples of C programming skills and your resume doesn't highlight any projects where you'd likely use C. If you were interested in getting an internship where you'd primarily be programming in C you'd be better off focusing on highlighting projects that interest you which use that language. You'd stand out if you had contributions on Github or your own libraries or applications on Github written in C.
- blackkettle 11y ago
  he says 'a basic understanding of...', and 'code a simple app using...' it's clearly not the focus, but i don't see any problem with that. the only thing i take away is 'he won't run away in terror if i show him some c++'.
- sgeisenh 11y ago
  A lot of interviewers like to ensure that you're comfortable with pointers and the distinction between the stack and the heap. It can be nice to list a familiarity on your resume just to let people know that you're comfortable with those kinds of questions.
kidsthesedays 11y ago
Good god can we please stop with the photos? Do you people really want to go back to the 1950s where a photo was required with a resume? Do you really want your potential employers to be judging you on your looks/race/ethnicity at the resume stage? It may be beneficial to you (you are the "correct" race and gender and you look young and not ugly) but for those of us that aren't - we don't want pressure to include photos because that will make our resume look unattractive to potential employers.
- kocsmy 11y ago
  Especially when his IG is way too overloaded with self-photo shoots :-)
- iak8god 11y ago
  Including a photo with resume/cv is much more common in Europe than the US.
- vacri 11y ago
  This isn't a submitted resume, it's a marketing site. Would you have all marketing sites also strip out photo portraits? A ton of enterprise services have landing pages with the portrait of an attractive support officer talking into a headset, or some besuited office worker tapping into a keyboard.
infinitone 11y ago
Great presentation and design skill, you'll def land something. Though if you want big 4 or even big 20 tech companies, then you'll need to show more real code. A good 20k loc app would be nice.
- jakejake 11y ago
  Seeing as how he is just finishing high school yet, I'm guessing he will have more code on his resume by the time he's looking for a job in 4 years. Although, with the speed of things, who knows what will be the hot skills then!
- dfinninger 11y ago
  Eh, I mean the dude is 19 and in High School. I sure as heck didn't have time for a 20k app while in school.
philip1209 11y ago
I'm confused - where does he want to work? Domain is "hostmeinca" which I read as "Host me in Canada" but could mean California - and he doesn't really specify anything except that he lives in Slovakia right now.
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brianzelip 11y ago
Great markup - I especially enjoy that `<main>` is used for only (some wrapping `<div>`s and) an `<h1>` which conveys the authors main call: "This summer I’d like to be your Intern (June - September)"!
nbrempel 11y ago
Wow there seems to be a lot of negative comments here. Do I sense a bit of jealousy?
Deebot 11y ago
I fail to understand what has people so fired up about this kid's site?
general_failure 11y ago
Great stuff! I love how your CV looks.
sailfast 11y ago
You're the person that posted the same site two years back, right? (saw on your CV, and remembered the first site). I was impressed at the time but alas am not in California. Did you ever find a host family in California when you posted this the first time?
lamosty 11y ago
I'm once again proud to be a Slovak citizen. Firstly http://takemetosiliconvalley.com http://takemetosiliconvalley.com, now this. I should really do something too :D
mceoin 11y ago
small typo: "Experience with databeses." Should be databases
swagmeister 11y ago
Nice shroom haircut.
meow_mix 11y ago
Translation: "Hi, I'm Marek Dlugos and I'm the most pretentious 19 year old ever"
nakovet 11y ago
The site looks great, I wish I had the frontend skills to do anything 5 times worst than this, I just don't get the sentence at the bottom: > I HAVE DONE THIS SITE DURING ONE WEEK, INSTEAD OF LEARNING FOR MY LEAVING EXAMS AND PARTYING WITH MY FRIENDS. I HOPE IT IS GONNA BE WORTH IT! Did you fail your exams? I had a feeling that you wanted to mention college is not that important because saying this is cool these days. Nevertheless, that's just my interpretation, kudos for the site and the projects listed.
- Taasden 11y ago
  Translation: > I DID THIS SITE IN A WEEK INSTEAD OF STUDYING FOR MY EXIT EXAMS OR PARTYING WITH FRIENDS. I HOPE IT WAS WORTH IT!
gabeio 11y ago
I would love to make a resume page like this, and have the balls to publicize it, I just have this super strong aversion to do such a thing because of the amount of creepy people on the internet.
argklm 11y ago
I don't see anything exceptional about this. There are a lot of tutorials and a lot of sites guiding you through building a site like that. You should never put yourself in a situation to ask for something. You must put others in the situation to ask for you. Making a website like countless others and having no substantial code to back off what you are claiming, won't put you in front of countless of other talented people that are a lot more humble than you. Talented companies have talented eyes seeking for talent, don't put only a good mask on. I wanted to say this, because I want you in a good company and I hope that you will get the best of life. Keep working on your path: mastering a framework is tenfold valuable than a "simple understanding". Regards
- memonkey 11y ago
  Maybe because he's 19? I agree though. This is not exceptional or very impressive. I don't really get why this has more upvotes than the 14 year old kid who posted a relatively way cooler site that utilized a bunch of APIs, etc.
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Drive and ambition are more valuable than "look what cool thing I made". You can teach talent; you can't teach motivation.
    - memonkey 11y ago
      Well, okay. I see where you're coming from but you can absolutely teach motivation. It is, however, extremely harder, because motivation is not as tangible as talent in the case of the individual. I mean, I'm not sure I'm not alone in wishing my own motivation at 19 was matched by this very motivated person. I think, however, that is the idea of this community. The I-Wish-I-Executed-My-Idea-At-19 types Even-Though-I-Only-Have-Words-And-College-Classes-To-Show-For-It. Maybe I'm wrong.
      - toomuchtodo 11y ago
        The sort of motivation I'm talking about you can't be taught: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-Jobs-Elon-Musk-Richard-Branson/answer/Justine-Musk?share=1 https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-St...
JDiculous 11y ago
Great website! But FYI, in the "Just shoot me an email" part towards the bottom, the text goes outside the screen on my Samsung Galaxy S4
Brajeshwar 11y ago
Minor Typo in "<meta property="og:title" content="A 19 year old student student is looking for an internship">"
goffley3 11y ago
Great job on your website. I would fill out your GitHub a little bit more so people can see your code. I'm jealous a little bit that I didn't get into web development as young as you did. Keep it up and continue to build awesome stuff!

533 points by MarekDlugos 11y ago

buraksarica 11y ago

This kid will go places.

therobot24 11y ago
seriously, that's a great looking resume - though it would be nice if i could click on one of the skills (e.g., Print Design) and see some examples
- MarekDlugos 11y ago
  Thank you guys! :) I will probably add this feature or just send people more detailed portfolio via e-mail.
  - logicallee 11y ago
    you are getting feature requests. Are you getting serious offers?
    - mbesto 11y ago
      Seriously. Marek, if you're reading this - get a full-time job. People will pay you serious money for your work and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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- buraksarica 11y ago
  He is the swiss knife of the interns..

blt 11y ago

Personal Branding!

tomw1808 11y ago

Now, I love that design ... it looks like we could never afford you. :)

johnloeber 11y ago

Just fyi, you have a typo on your "What can I bring to your team?" page. You misspelled "radically" as "radicaly". Otherwise it looks great -- good going! Very impressive for a high-school student.

ARCarr 11y ago
And on his resume under Design Skills it says "Web Desing" not "Web Design".
rxt 11y ago
Also "databeses" in the "Experience with databeses" line.
- pidg 11y ago
  Databese should be an alternate term for big data.
  - psylence519 11y ago
    This needs to happen.
    - sarciszewski 11y ago
      New CV item: coined the avant garde term "databese".
      - aclissold 11y ago
        Perilously close to the politically-incorrect "databetes."
  - ljk 11y ago
    how about Databetes?
tdsamardzhiev 11y ago

zaszrespawned 11y ago

Talk about being web savvy at intern age..

pistle 11y ago
I increasingly come to expect this sort of product since kids coming up expect their products to be like this. He may be a leader in this, but the group coming up definitely will be demonstrating the "Yes, and..." attitude in terms of design and features. The new kids invigorate the game, which is great.

xmpirate 11y ago

Hey your resume looks impressive. Can you tell me how you made the resume? Latex or anything? The design and presentation of skills is great! I'm 20 too and want to update my resume.

saigrandhi 11y ago
I think he used InDesign or some other software like that.
phaemon 11y ago
Creator : PDF Presentation Adobe Photoshop CC 2014

sheepmaniac 11y ago

Small advice: do something with those brackets. They are in the middle of the page and their misalignment with coding skills section is infuriating (at least for me).

diimdeep 11y ago

Personal Branding well done.

thomasahle 11y ago

I like the star graph in the bottom a lot :)

jonathanpoulter 11y ago

From the page source:  Nice.

tokenizerrr 11y ago
Honestly I was a little disappointed with a disclaimer like that: https://i.imgur.com/vqz9wRX.png https://i.imgur.com/vqz9wRX.png
- tjbiddle 11y ago
  Looks like those are spaces, while everything else is tabs. Probably has his editor set tabs to 4 spaces where it matches up - Easy to overlook unless you have your editor show spaces with a character.

Bahamut 11y ago

You should remove the word "with" from those titles - the bullet points don't flow properly when appended to the titles

CPLX 11y ago
Listen to this person. This is the one glaring thing I noticed, it makes your wording sound stereotypically Eastern European, and is jarring in comparison to a document that otherwise flows quite well.

karnajani 11y ago

This is awesome. I'm not in CA, but I hope a team over there picks you up.

chrisper 11y ago
I don't think that would happen as there are enough people here seeking for an internship.

danielvinson 11y ago

FYI in the US it is considered inappropriate to have your picture on a resume.

simonswords82 11y ago
Good job he's not in the US then :)
crusso 11y ago
If he were sending a standard printed resume through the mail then you might have a point. This online version is something different and I doubt that anyone looking for talent would disqualify him for having his picture on there.
- nilkn 11y ago
  I'll be completely honest and say that it makes me feel slightly awkward because it's a major component of the resume and yet is completely irrelevant for deciding if he's qualified or not. To me, it's distracting and actually makes me feel slightly pressured to cut him some slack because he put in extra effort on making the resume pretty. All that said, for someone who hasn't even started college yet, I think every little extra bit helps. I would never recommend this for an experienced hire or someone who's had several internships already in college, but for someone trying to break in for the first time any way you can find of displaying your interest and passion is going to help some.
  - hn_ 11y ago
    I have to be honest here.... I review resumes and have a say in hiring decisions in my company. I would probably have a tendency to disregard this resume because of the picture. It is pretty distracting and frankly makes me uncomfortable. I don't wish to evaluate a candidate based on their looks but this one says "my looks are important to my job qualifications." Perhaps I'm old fashion and this is over the top but it just rubs me the wrong way and I feel the "type" of candidate who includes a picture like that isn't the "type" of candidate I'd like to have on my team. It comes off to me as narcissistic. Perhaps the younger, hipper crowd appreciates this sort of thing - if you are going for that type of work. Long established companies might pass this one up. I might be completely out in left field here though.

Raphmedia 11y ago

This is better than the websites of half the web agencies out there.

soneca 11y ago

Your page looks great because you have great skills and achievements to show. Remember that. You are getting A LOT of attention in HN, that will sure be picked up by another places on the interwebs. So, my piece of advice: do not use this fame and fall in temptation to start capitalizaing solely on your personal brand, giving lectures, interviews, writing books on how to be hired by the hottest startups and other distractions. Keep focusing on working hard to build things. You are doing a great job on this so far. Congrats!

themodelplumber 11y ago
If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...
- Retra 11y ago
  Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.
  - 5435434553 11y ago
    Do you live in a fairy world? The point of writing and publishing books is TO MAKE MONEY. Nobody cares about your opinions.
    - Retra 11y ago
      Well, feel free to waste your life and time writing a book for money. I will be the first person in line to never buy such a book.
thesagan 11y ago

porter 11y ago

Congrats. You put a lot of American job seeking college kids to shame.

EricSu 11y ago
I'm a 20yo college student...definitely feeling inferior for not being this proactive as a high schooler. But I'm currently in my second internship and I can definitely say I got hired because of personal projects such as this that highlight your skills and your interest in using those skills inside and outside of class/work environments, so great job and good luck!
jacks205 11y ago
This guy is selling out hard. Coming from a guy with a more active GitHub and projects, I don't see how this guy is any different than any American college kid.
- kidsthesedays 11y ago
  He isn't much different from a run of the mill college kid. He just has a "startup style" website with gratuitous pictures of himself all over it. It's called "personal marketing." Apparently software engineers are supposed to do that nowadays - our code no longer speaks for itself.
  - jcliff 11y ago
    code still speaks for itself. it just has to be framed and delivered to an audience. your side project that's sitting on your hard drive or even your unpublicized github account isn't doing you any good.
    - kidsthesedays 11y ago
      Um... I am old and I don't have time to work on side projects - I have dying parents I need to spend time with because I won't get that time back. I have friends that live all over the East Coast now and visiting them is very important and now time consuming. My point is this is incredibly superficial and the stuff that matters (his actual work) gets lost in all the needless fluff. Plus I'm too busy getting my actual work done to "market" myself.

daddykotex 11y ago

From the source :  Hahah, you sure know HN! Good luck!

alpacaaa 11y ago

Wish you best of luck dude, very well done.

Johnie 11y ago

Since he's from Slovakia, does he have the visa status to work in the US? Will a startup go through H1-B process for a summer intern? Also, if he doesn't go through the formal visa process and tries to do his summer internship with a visitor visa, he may be banned from the US for 10 years. Given that he's publicly publicizing coming to the US to work, it would be very easy for USCIS to block his entry into the US.

c0g 11y ago
Having just got a J1 visa myself, he'd be well served with J1. It lets you work in the US for up to 6 months in an internship. Might still be time!
- ylem 11y ago
  But will it cause him any problems if he wants to come to the US to work or go to school in the near term after his internship? From what I remember, don't J1 visas require you to return to your home country for a certain period of time? It was something we (in the US) worried about when thinking about having an intern from India who was planning to attend graduate school in the US in a year or so...
  - DougBTX 11y ago
    Yes, http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange...
  - c0g 11y ago
    I don't think so, Slovakia isn't on the skills list[0] [0] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/exchange/exchange-visitor-skills-list.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange...
- jrm2k6 11y ago
  I think it takes time though to apply for the J1 visa. I remember the process to get mine being 6-7 weeks and I was interning for a UC university, meaning they have 'easy' access to it.

sebg 11y ago

Great work! One thing - pretty much everything you wrote is about you...Which is great, but it would be more compelling if removed any mention of yourself and made it all about the company who is going to hire you.

elchief 11y ago

I managed to graduate high school near the end of the early 90s recession, university at the beginning of the dot com bust, and B-School in the beginning of the 2008 meltdown. I promise to never to go back to school again.

thescrewdriver 11y ago

> "There is still 1 month, 1 day, 6 hours, 55 minutes and 21 seconds until summer, which gives me a lot of time to learn new skills that you might need!" Awesome attitude towards learning new skills!

kenrick 11y ago

Really nice job. Fix the instagram link :)

thornofmight 11y ago

Why do you want to intern? Seems like with your skills you could just work (and get paid for) a real job.

jvehent 11y ago
I don't know if that's the case here, but a lot of European colleges require summer internships. Compensation is sometimes permitted, but status of employment must be an internship.
- TkTech 11y ago
  He may be implying that he might as well work now and do college later if he feels like it. I went this course. I started working in my current office as a high school co-op and 4-5 years later I'm still here. I might as well work now earning a good salary and go to college whenever I feel like it.
- neoromantique 11y ago
  Uhh, I've never seen that to be the case and I'm from Europe.
  - contergan 11y ago
    Germany here. I know plenty of people that have done internships because their degree required it.
    - neoromantique 11y ago
      After or during studies, yes, but not as pre-requisite.
  - yuncun 11y ago
    Europe big place
- hn_ 11y ago
  I'm from the US and my school required 1 year co-op experience as a pre-req for completing the degree.

HNdev1995 11y ago

Where are you hosting this website?

spacecadet 11y ago

You must have ideas? Skip all this and just run with one of those.

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mholt 11y ago

Brilliant work. I wish I had your skills at 19. The photography and design mesh perfectly well together. I bet you will have no problem getting to the USA to study and work.

HNdev1995 11y ago
For work - what about H1B visa? Even if a company agrees to go through the process, he still has a slim chance of getting the visa, right? I am just trying to familiarise myself to the process since I will be going through it next year.
- chrisper 11y ago
  You need a bachelors degree in order to get an H1B.
  - jrm2k6 11y ago
    And more than that, not enough spots for everybody. Big companies are going to get most of them no? Especially for an intern, it is almost impossible.
    - chrisper 11y ago
      No company is going to waste thousands of $ to hire an intern. Most H1B go to those fake Indian companies and Google etc.
pierotofy 11y ago
As long as you have enough money to pay tuition without scholarships (and paying the non-resident rate)... sure! Being sarcastic here, finding a job (or studying as an undergraduate) in the U.S. as a foreigner unfortunately has very little to do with skills. Unless you have something very unique that a company decides to seek you out for!

logicallee 11y ago

and they say geography isn't destiny. a design like this can get a solo founder a $2M valuation on an idea in the valley (making him an instant millionaire), whereas a slovakian is trying hard to close an internsihp (meaning he hasn't gotten $8/hr, or 1/250000th of that amount.) 1/250000th.

SomeCollegeBro 11y ago
I think you need a little bit more than a website to get a valuation...
- radicality 11y ago
  Not if your product is... a website, like many startups are.
  - justathrow2k 11y ago
    These companies products generally aren't simply a website - their web sites serve as a catalyst for delivering an actual product that provides functionality. The link is question isn't a product hosted on the web, its simply a personal website.
justathrow2k 11y ago
A design like that coupled with a product that people think has some value, perhaps.
- logicallee 11y ago
  Yes, of course. I said "on an idea" meaning a product that people think has some value -- but nothing more than this web site design around that idea.

andrewmcwatters 11y ago

Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time positions. You clearly don't know what you've got.

ohitsdom 11y ago
Interesting, how did you even catch this?
- andrewmcwatters 11y ago
  Visual Idiot is a notable name in the design community. It would be like stealing from Tobias Van Schneider or something. You can't get past people in the know.
  - ohitsdom 11y ago
    But how did you even make the connection? I don't see the text "Visual Idiot" anywhere. And were you just browsing his js files? Or did the UI of the site feel familiar?
    - ohitsdom 11y ago
      Ah, I just went to http://vaguelyexciting.com/ http://vaguelyexciting.com/. I'm assuming you recognized the moving dots/lines and made then connection yourself, then compared JS files to confirm.
    - BinaryIdiot 11y ago
      If you go to the Visual Idiot site it has the same background effect so if you've looked at both sites it would be a pretty easy observation.

whoisthemachine 11y ago

Great resume. I agree with the others, I am jealous of the skills you have displayed at your age.

thesimon 11y ago

Your page looks great, the photo is really nice and the mailto title is a nice touch. <shamelessplug> I should've thought about submitting to HN too :) http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/ http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/

endymi0n 11y ago
Sounds like you could have fun with our team at JustWatch... </shameless self plug> Just sayin :)

dcre 11y ago

Very nice. Just one tip – in one of your testimonials Cristina uses the word "pedant". She probably meant you're good with details (or that you're a good teacher), but at least in the US, that word almost always has the negative connotation of being too concerned with details. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant

agounaris 11y ago

I hope this will not be the start of a spam-fest by others. Good luck with your job seeking.

ttty 11y ago

>Experience with databeses Typo in "databeses" Good looking resume (:

lachenmayer 11y ago

Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like? We at HackCampus http://hackcampus.io/ http://hackcampus.io/ could offer you a 10-week internship at some amazing startups (GoCardless, SwiftKey, Kano and more) in London this summer. It's well-paid, and we'll give you free accommodation over the summer with a batch of other awesome student hackers like yourself. http://hackcampus.io/internship/ http://hackcampus.io/internship/ I can give you more details over email, harry at hackcampus.io :)

krmmalik 11y ago
Do you have any students or know or any place that would be interested in interning for digital marketing, growth hacking, social media related work? And does the payment come from the start-up or from sort of fund you have setup? Would love to chat further if you have time. Kam[at]krmmalik dot com Thank you.
neoromantique 11y ago
#Not Marek Wanted to apply on your website, during registration received error 500, then CSRF verification failed. Request Aborted. And then My username is taken. Reproduce-able too, I guess I should stop being admin and go into QA? :D
- lachenmayer 11y ago
  Thanks, we just found out! This definitely worked for several weeks previously, ha. We're looking into it right now.
quadrature 11y ago
Is this only for students in the UK ?
- ainsej 11y ago
  Nope, anybody who is legally allowed to work in the UK (so EU member states included)

hamandcheese 11y ago

Now you can add "Made it to the HN front page" to your resume!

cozuya 11y ago

Guess I'll be that guy - the design and content is nice and well done, but this is just bootstrap copy/paste to me; I don't see a lot of "coding talent" evident. Not to say he doesn't have it, but creating a site like this basically requires finding a similar one and learning what classes to put into your bootstrap markup.

yuncun 11y ago
tbf he is looking for an internship
justathrow2k 11y ago
For what its worth, I agree with you. That is to say, I feel like a lot of the people here giving out praise are being a bit excessive with it and this is simply a flavour of the day paint by numbers web page. Still, it's a good effort for a kid in college looking to get an internship.

ChristianGeek 11y ago

Very impressive...If your skills are as good as you claim, I'd hire you full-time now if I had an opening; you may want to reconsider whether finishing school is a worthwhile investment of your time and money. One small tip on your site: Get rid of the word "with" in the "I can help you with" headings. It's grammatically incorrect for the way your lists are phrased, and having "I can help you" appear three times on the page is a nice subliminal message!

nickysielicki 11y ago

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile App - where can I see it? * upload.it - URL definitely does not resolve to the site pictured. * School Site - where can I see it? * eStavebny Dennik - See, this one's real and it's awesome! http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/ http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/ EDIT: They do exist, disregard this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684 I've mocked websites and apps before too, but I always am sure to note that I've mocked it, not built it. If you're a front end web designer, there's no shame in that, there's a lot you can do with that. This site and eStavebny are more than enough to impress people. If the other stuff was available to look at, that'd be cool too. But don't mislead people, because if they're going to hire you, they are going to want to look deeper. Last month my dad was telling me about the interns he was interviewing for this summer. He said he was most frustrated by the amount of overselling that these kids were doing for themselves. No, your management experience of managing your highschool robotics team is not relevant at a fortune 500 company. Related to this is the problem with college admissions. Everyone has a 4.0 with multiple APs and played varsity sports and can write a boring essay. Everyone is afraid to admit what they don't know. And I don't mean unknown unknowns, I mean known unknowns. I'm coexisting in this problem just as much as you are, and I just want to say that I hate this. I wish we could all be honest with our skills and I wish employers would appreciate that honesty more. But we can't afford to be modest and honest, so I guess can't fault you for doing what we all do. It's like steroids in baseball.

silverbax88 11y ago
I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.
- ElComradio 11y ago
  I have no (public) github account and I approve this message.

vdnkh 11y ago

This is great, I'm making my first website now and you've given me a lot of great ideas for design. And made me feel bad about mine!

hn_ 11y ago
Here's some more ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856

agentultra 11y ago

Nice looking site! One piece of advice: don't put C, C++, etc on your resume unless you're really comfortable with those languages and want to focus on them. Your resume highlights your design skills and projects using web technologies. Great! Focus on those! For example, your Github has no examples of C programming skills and your resume doesn't highlight any projects where you'd likely use C. If you were interested in getting an internship where you'd primarily be programming in C you'd be better off focusing on highlighting projects that interest you which use that language. You'd stand out if you had contributions on Github or your own libraries or applications on Github written in C.

blackkettle 11y ago
he says 'a basic understanding of...', and 'code a simple app using...' it's clearly not the focus, but i don't see any problem with that. the only thing i take away is 'he won't run away in terror if i show him some c++'.
sgeisenh 11y ago
A lot of interviewers like to ensure that you're comfortable with pointers and the distinction between the stack and the heap. It can be nice to list a familiarity on your resume just to let people know that you're comfortable with those kinds of questions.

kidsthesedays 11y ago

Good god can we please stop with the photos? Do you people really want to go back to the 1950s where a photo was required with a resume? Do you really want your potential employers to be judging you on your looks/race/ethnicity at the resume stage? It may be beneficial to you (you are the "correct" race and gender and you look young and not ugly) but for those of us that aren't - we don't want pressure to include photos because that will make our resume look unattractive to potential employers.

kocsmy 11y ago
Especially when his IG is way too overloaded with self-photo shoots :-)
iak8god 11y ago
Including a photo with resume/cv is much more common in Europe than the US.
vacri 11y ago
This isn't a submitted resume, it's a marketing site. Would you have all marketing sites also strip out photo portraits? A ton of enterprise services have landing pages with the portrait of an attractive support officer talking into a headset, or some besuited office worker tapping into a keyboard.

infinitone 11y ago

Great presentation and design skill, you'll def land something. Though if you want big 4 or even big 20 tech companies, then you'll need to show more real code. A good 20k loc app would be nice.

jakejake 11y ago
Seeing as how he is just finishing high school yet, I'm guessing he will have more code on his resume by the time he's looking for a job in 4 years. Although, with the speed of things, who knows what will be the hot skills then!
dfinninger 11y ago
Eh, I mean the dude is 19 and in High School. I sure as heck didn't have time for a 20k app while in school.

philip1209 11y ago

I'm confused - where does he want to work? Domain is "hostmeinca" which I read as "Host me in Canada" but could mean California - and he doesn't really specify anything except that he lives in Slovakia right now.

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brianzelip 11y ago

Great markup - I especially enjoy that `<main>` is used for only (some wrapping `<div>`s and) an `<h1>` which conveys the authors main call: "This summer I’d like to be your Intern (June - September)"!

nbrempel 11y ago

Wow there seems to be a lot of negative comments here. Do I sense a bit of jealousy?

Deebot 11y ago

I fail to understand what has people so fired up about this kid's site?

general_failure 11y ago

Great stuff! I love how your CV looks.

sailfast 11y ago

You're the person that posted the same site two years back, right? (saw on your CV, and remembered the first site). I was impressed at the time but alas am not in California. Did you ever find a host family in California when you posted this the first time?

lamosty 11y ago

I'm once again proud to be a Slovak citizen. Firstly http://takemetosiliconvalley.com http://takemetosiliconvalley.com, now this. I should really do something too :D

mceoin 11y ago

small typo: "Experience with databeses." Should be databases

swagmeister 11y ago

Nice shroom haircut.

meow_mix 11y ago

Translation: "Hi, I'm Marek Dlugos and I'm the most pretentious 19 year old ever"

nakovet 11y ago

The site looks great, I wish I had the frontend skills to do anything 5 times worst than this, I just don't get the sentence at the bottom: > I HAVE DONE THIS SITE DURING ONE WEEK, INSTEAD OF LEARNING FOR MY LEAVING EXAMS AND PARTYING WITH MY FRIENDS. I HOPE IT IS GONNA BE WORTH IT! Did you fail your exams? I had a feeling that you wanted to mention college is not that important because saying this is cool these days. Nevertheless, that's just my interpretation, kudos for the site and the projects listed.

Taasden 11y ago
Translation: > I DID THIS SITE IN A WEEK INSTEAD OF STUDYING FOR MY EXIT EXAMS OR PARTYING WITH FRIENDS. I HOPE IT WAS WORTH IT!

gabeio 11y ago

I would love to make a resume page like this, and have the balls to publicize it, I just have this super strong aversion to do such a thing because of the amount of creepy people on the internet.

argklm 11y ago

I don't see anything exceptional about this. There are a lot of tutorials and a lot of sites guiding you through building a site like that. You should never put yourself in a situation to ask for something. You must put others in the situation to ask for you. Making a website like countless others and having no substantial code to back off what you are claiming, won't put you in front of countless of other talented people that are a lot more humble than you. Talented companies have talented eyes seeking for talent, don't put only a good mask on. I wanted to say this, because I want you in a good company and I hope that you will get the best of life. Keep working on your path: mastering a framework is tenfold valuable than a "simple understanding". Regards

memonkey 11y ago
Maybe because he's 19? I agree though. This is not exceptional or very impressive. I don't really get why this has more upvotes than the 14 year old kid who posted a relatively way cooler site that utilized a bunch of APIs, etc.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Drive and ambition are more valuable than "look what cool thing I made". You can teach talent; you can't teach motivation.
  - memonkey 11y ago
    Well, okay. I see where you're coming from but you can absolutely teach motivation. It is, however, extremely harder, because motivation is not as tangible as talent in the case of the individual. I mean, I'm not sure I'm not alone in wishing my own motivation at 19 was matched by this very motivated person. I think, however, that is the idea of this community. The I-Wish-I-Executed-My-Idea-At-19 types Even-Though-I-Only-Have-Words-And-College-Classes-To-Show-For-It. Maybe I'm wrong.
    - toomuchtodo 11y ago
      The sort of motivation I'm talking about you can't be taught: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-Jobs-Elon-Musk-Richard-Branson/answer/Justine-Musk?share=1 https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-St...

JDiculous 11y ago

Great website! But FYI, in the "Just shoot me an email" part towards the bottom, the text goes outside the screen on my Samsung Galaxy S4

Brajeshwar 11y ago

Minor Typo in "<meta property="og:title" content="A 19 year old student student is looking for an internship">"

goffley3 11y ago

Great job on your website. I would fill out your GitHub a little bit more so people can see your code. I'm jealous a little bit that I didn't get into web development as young as you did. Keep it up and continue to build awesome stuff!