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Ask HN: Who are you?
18 points by maxwin on July 30, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 39 comments
HN is a great community. Just wondering what kind of people are active at HN: a uni student? an employee in a tech company? a founder of a new startup? an investor ? or?? Tell us who you are.


I create adventure. I leave slain dragons in my wake. I build monuments, plant flags, discover wonders, and lead armies.

I sing duets, dance tangos, and play concertos.

I cook banquets. I wheel, make deals, and strike bargains. I purchase fruit in large quantities. I partake and imbibe. I articulate, expound, and drive home the point. I maintain a strong moral fiber and act with integrity.

I forge trails and bushwhack through jungles. When I am not walking, I am running. I sail and drive and fly and ride and crawl.

I write encyclopaedias. I learn, study, forecast, ponder, and calculate. I know the answer.

I am nice, warm, strong, creative, solid, confident, funny, intelligent, and a little crazy.


wow superman, I didn't know you were on here!


or a deluded hippy


I am a student who is 1 year away from a BS in computer engineering. I'm also working on a startup.


Ex-college kid. Working at Walmart ISD now for the time being.


Same, minus the ex- part. I live in an apartment with Cows and wish I had enough motivation and free time after my workweek (and school during the fall and spring) to throw together some android apps or some of my startup ideas. In my spare time I geek out about typography, music, and compilers.. or just sleep in.


Go back. You'll make the debt up.


I think at one time that was safe advice to anyone talking about college, but I think now, unless you know the amount of debt involved and other details, you can't just glibly toss that off. There are many people and situations where going to college or staying in college is not the best idea.


Going to a technical school instead. I can afford it in the long run.


Currently employed at a late state, nasa funded startup... soon to be writing my own software full time, at least for a while.


nice!


Someone who runs a few websites and wants to learn to write a programming language so I can write a "game" (simulation) as a teaching tool for one of them. I also want to more effectively monetize the work I do on the web so I can quit my day job and spend more of my time working on the things I believe in.


maybe Adobe flex would be useful?


I have a certificate in GIS, so I'm impressed that ESRI is using it. I guess I will have to look into it. Thanks.:)


I'm a design UI/UX freelancer and entrepreneur - currently getting my feet wet w/ ruby and ROR


Uni student studying information systems (and computer science) working at the school as a web designer for various departments. Hanging out at HN for inspiration, motivation and knowledge.


My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

...or maybe I'm just a software engineer / small company owner ( SmartFlix.com / HeavyInk.com) outside of Boston...


CEO of Broadersheet. Broadersheet is a personalised newspaper.


interesting service!


BSBA Finance; 2 classes shy of BS in Mathematics; starting MSFE in a month; worked as an equity trader, trust analyst, and retail broker


uni student, former employee in electronics manufacturing, current employee as a programmer, hacker hobbyist, immigrant to the States.


Web developer for a nonprofit. VP Technology at a startup. Trying to write as much as I can.

Doubled in CompSci and English at a strong U.S. uni.


cool, man. It is a nice mix.


Web Developer working for a Consulting Firm that provides software for various government organization and private companies


Graduated with a degree in electrical engineering three months ago. Now working on a startup in a totally unrelated field.


I like to think I am working on being a scientist in the pure sense of the word.

To put ideas to the test, and learn from those tests.


engineer in a late stage startup, formerly an engineer in a large company, next... a hacker with my own startup.


Web Development Intern at Electronic Arts. 2 years from a BS in Computer Science.


CS professor, interested in helping students spin out companies.


I'm a developer at an internet startup based in San Francisco.


I will begin here.

Rising college senior, bioinformatics major.


Co-Founder of www.FeedbackJar.com


CTO of massify.com.

Lover.

Fighter.


I was checking out massify.com from your comment, and must say how valuable it looks. I'm a producer on a documentary (noapologiesmovie.com) and will def. be using massify's site for some of our upcoming work. Thanks!


good website


founder of ww.com, small time investor, coder, tinkerer.


code monkey


I am a computer hacker.


IT at a general contracting firm specializing in municipal water structures.




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