nevergetenglish

The right to be forgotten is well established in Europe. To introduce this right in HN could be made simply by changing the name of the poster to a random one. This is related to my other question in HN about how to delete my account.

I would like to delete my HN account, is that possible? I mean a way to delete the user in such a way that the link with user?id=me display not found or deleted.

I have a Ph.D. in math and four years in CS (I drop out of CS because I began to study my Ph.D, luckly I was able to put together my studies in Math and CS and publish some papers about complexity of algorithms in top rank publications (I got tenure in a good university). I can program in many languages, python, ruby, lisp, scala, javascript, Mathematica, julia, R and others. But my main weakness is lack of experience developing any big project. I don't have a github account, it seems I am always learning and I, perhaps wrongly, believe that learning increase my opportunities more than developing, I have very little to show up for any prospective employer. Also, as I read English only sporadically and write a little bit, my speaking and writings skills are very weak.

What would you advice me to do to get better prospects to get a programmer job? I would prefer to do it remotely but that seems much more difficult.

On top of that, I am not so young, more than 30. Perhaps you could suggest another kind of job related to programming?

As I have never worked with a team, I imagine there are many unknown unknown, so I don't have any clue about how I would fit in any team. One day I was reading about advice to be a good data analyst, and P. Norvig words are etched in my memory: you need to have a lot of experience in big data analysis, It doesn't matter what or where you studied, you need to have a lot of hand experience with big data.

Perhaps is too late for me, to pursue this path and I may find a career outside of programming, but I enjoy learning and coding and I will try get a job in this field.

Added at 17:51, Madrid local time.

Thinking about all the difficulties, it may be an alternative to think about creating a start-up, but now the problem is what kind of product or service can I/my team/, provide that is of real value? But perhaps this problem is bigger than the first one, is a bootstrap.

Intelligence floats in big cities, we breath it, and for those like me that dwell abroad, HN can be that breath of intelligence.

Has any of your post help you with a synergistic approach, new connections, give you a new outlook, fund your business or suggest a successful alternative? I'd like to know any post in HN that has made a profound effect on you.

For example, one post about learning and teaching maths linked to Thurston "On proof and Progress in Mathematics" that I consider can impact many young mathematicians. Kremer's model of innovation as a function of density of population means that tools as HN can expand the power of our minds to create and innovate like never before.

Going into a meta post, I can imagine that HN may evolve into some kind of network that allows us to get powerful insight. But, before reaching that goal, is necessary to filter and reward those whose creative mind we all want to share.

At the minimum, those creative minds that we all want show off should be allowed to move to any country, permanent visa granted, if they are going to share their insight to help boost the economy.

Edited: mostly grammar.