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.<p>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 <i>build things</i>. You are doing a great job on this so far. Congrats!
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.<p>* Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours?<p>* VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages.<p>* Mobile App - where can I see it?<p>* upload.it - URL definitely does not resolve to the site pictured.<p>* School Site - where can I see it?<p>* eStavebny Dennik - See, this one's real and it's awesome! <a href="http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.estavebnydennik.sk/</a><p>EDIT: They do exist, disregard this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459684</a><p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>It's like steroids in baseball.
Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like?<p>We at HackCampus <a href="http://hackcampus.io/" rel="nofollow">http://hackcampus.io/</a> 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.<p><a href="http://hackcampus.io/internship/" rel="nofollow">http://hackcampus.io/internship/</a><p>I can give you more details over email, harry at hackcampus.io :)
Nice looking site!<p>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!<p>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.
Just fyi, you have a typo on your "What can I bring to your team?" page. You misspelled "radically" as "radicaly".<p>Otherwise it looks great -- good going! Very impressive for a high-school student.
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
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?<p>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.
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 <i>too</i> concerned with details.<p><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant" rel="nofollow">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedant</a>
> "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!"<p>Awesome attitude towards learning new skills!
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).
Great work!<p>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.
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.
Your page looks great, the photo is really nice and the mailto title is a nice touch.<p><shamelessplug>
I should've thought about submitting to HN too :)
<a href="http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/" rel="nofollow">http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/</a>
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.
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.
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.<p>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.
You're the person that posted the same site two years back, right? (saw on your CV, and remembered the first site).<p>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?
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.)<p>1/250000th.
Brilliant work. I wish I had your skills at 19. The photography and design mesh perfectly well together.<p>I bet you will have no problem getting to the USA to study and work.
I'm once again proud to be a Slovak citizen. Firstly <a href="http://takemetosiliconvalley.com" rel="nofollow">http://takemetosiliconvalley.com</a>, now this. I should really do something too :D
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.<p>I promise to never to go back to school again.
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.
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:<p>> 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!<p>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.
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.<p>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!
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!
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)"!
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.
Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version?<p><a href="http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js" rel="nofollow">http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js</a><p><a href="http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js" rel="nofollow">http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js</a><p>Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here.<p>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.