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SEEKING WORK | Valencia, Spain | Remote | Part-time or Full-time

Experienced fullstack freelance. Last 6 years working for different startups. Projects from end to end, MVP. Solo or as part of a team.

* Experience: 20 years, most of them remote.

* Tech stack: React | Java/Golang | grpc/kafka | docker/k8s (see CV for details, link below)

* Industries: fintech, customer onboarding, AI, geospatial

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Hey!

My name is Kolya, and I’m currently a senior at Harvard. Last year I began working on an app and I now have a fully-functioning prototype (developed by freelancers) that I am looking to launch on college campuses in January (at the start of the second semester). I am graduating a semester early (this December) so that I can allocate all of my time toward this startup in the spring. However, given that I am non-technical, I am looking for a committed technical co-founder to join the team for equity.

If you are interested and have the time, I would love to connect and chat!


Some platforms offer non-negligible interest on those.


Andrew Huberman saying in a podcast that it's not the case for verbal recall:

https://youtu.be/Ze2pc6NwsHQ?t=3350

Interesting podcast, btw. got it from HN few days ago.


I got it from HN as well and it is excellent! Kudos for both Andrew and whoever commented a link to it :)


He's pretty good for sure, but he's a little too excitable on some topics and makes some leaps. I know he's done this on some of his exercise science episodes, for instance, with his discussion of cold therapy.


Maybe the AI considered that after joking together for a while it could make a last one, touching a very sensitive subject but at the same time not being offensive at all.

How will be differentiating a malfunctioning AI from one that is too subtle for us? Fun times.


If you are willing to work remotely you can do, at least, twice as that.

German market pays best in Europe but you need to speak the language. The culture is also very specific.

If you don't have family and don't mind working in other timezones, then US will have the best offer for you.

My algorithm: do many applications. Aim high, low and in between. Ask for a high salary and lower little by little.


> German market pays best in Europe but you need to speak the language. The culture is also very specific.

Genuine question: do you mean to say the culture is very specific or just not American?

I'm curious to know if it is more specific than, let's say, French or Spanish.


Not sure about that. UK/London companies can pay big bucks if they want you.


With specific I meant strong cultural values (maybe). How Germans understand work is different from how Spanish, French or Italian do. But not only work: friendship, society, conflict, etc. And you need to learn their language in order to understand all that, which is a huge barrier. I just wanted to warn OP about that fact.

It may depend were are you culturally. I'm Spanish and I've lived in Germany, France and Italy.


I would make the point size dependent of the scale. When I zoom in I get huge balls. And I would make them not blink.


The size of the points shows the reported visible range, the colour and pattern of blinks represents how the light should appear. But this all depends upon the OSM data being entered correctly, and as https://github.com/geodienst/lighthousemap#readme notes:

"contains my best guess on how a light sequence will look based on these descriptions. However, it might be inaccurate, and it tries to do its best with the sometimes not entirely consistent data from OSM."


They blink as they blink in reality. This is the point of the map.


The point of the map is to remind you that lighthouses blink? I thought it was to show you where the lighthouses were.


I think they meant that the point is to show the blinking pattern (which is one very valuable piece of data when it comes to identifying a lighthouse).


In Spain public health system don't do PCRs anymore (only private, which very few would). Without a PCR you don't have a valid proof of being infected.

This is my personal case and the case of many many Spanish people, as Omicron is sweeping the country.


In Asturias they will accept a positive antigen test as you can go to a pharmacy and they’ll do it and report you as positive to the health system.


It is the same in Quebec. It's not because they don't want to recognize infections, it's just that they don't have the capacity to do so, which is perfectly understandable, while not recognizing infection as a vaccine does isn't.


I realized trying to get 3d terrains printed that we are very impeded in the Z axis. If you don't multiply Z by a factor your map will be almost flat. Everest? 8 miserable km? Come on, I can do that on the horizontal with one leg (ok, maybe not but you get the point).


> Failure hurts. And that's OK. It's supposed to hurt.

Indeed, emotions are there because make sense evolutionary. Defeat makes you more prone to stop trying things, to look around and see what you did wrong, to repeat the defeat in your head again and again. On the opposite, victory makes you more bold, to explore new paths, to attempt things that are, theoretically, out of your reach.

That's how I see it and makes a lot of sense to me.


I alternate very busy and sabbatical periods. When I am busy, I discipline myself to do relatively boring things. Then I have a lot of ideas of very cool things to do. Then I stop being busy and I am not interested in those anymore.

Why do I find those interesting only when I am busy? My hypothesis is that some unconscious part of me is trying to escape the discipline.


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