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Ask HN: Seeking an engineering mentor
3 points by MTmind 2929 days ago
Preferably free, but willing to pay $100/hour or more if this proves fruitful. My ambition is within a 20 year horizon to create a technological product that is novel, useful, persistent, and prevalent. Examples I feel meet these criteria include S3, Java, Autotune, Bittorent, Bitcoin, Blackrock's Aladdin, HTCondor, RSA, Facebook, Dropbox, Tinder, Valgrind, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Google Maps, Snapchat, Spring, Slack, nginx, deep fakes, Docker, Super Smash Bros, Youtube, QNX, and more. Please contact me at manrajt@gmail.com or leave contact information or advice in comments. Thank you.
1 comments
CyberFonic 2928 days ago
Saw your post and a day later I notice that you still didn't get any responses on HN.

Perhaps you could add some information about yourself, details of your skills and experience. Your examples are very expansive, but give no indication of what you might bring to the table.

BTW are you looking for a mentor to commit to 20 years of mentoring?

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MTmind 2926 days ago
No, I'm not looking for 20 years of mentoring at all.

I've just begun as a new-grad engineer at FAANG company, and have now realized that unless I get some guidance from someone experienced, that 20 years could go by really fast without you fulfilling any of the reasons that you became an engineer in the first place.

Maybe a different avenue will prove more fruitful.

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