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Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

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Post by gr3yh47 »

pnathan wrote: post #82
gr3yh47 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate all of the feedback and will be incorporating a lot of it. what did you mean by a wc replacement? >You're not an expert - if you are, you'd not be looking for entry level positions, and you likely wouldn't be a hobbyist. You'd probably have a history of consulting in your expert field. Seriously, everyone is failing on comprehension on that one sentence. I'm an expert in my field looking to pivot to anot…

> Seriously, everyone is failing on comprehension on that one sentence. I'm an expert in my field looking to pivot to another. Expert SYSTEMS engineer. I'm changing the sentence to prevent future misreads. If one person calls you a skunk, ignore them. When two people call you a skunk, sniff. When three people call you a skunk? You're probably a skunk. ;-) (edit: you totally miscommunicated. that's why everyone is rea…

not a pure line count. a program that counts lines of actual code. excludes comments, tracks lines of code that span multiple lines in the text editor, ignores whitespace lines.

damn, the assumptions people make

Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

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Post by gr3yh47 »

pnathan wrote: post #69

Everyone is different in what they look for. I look for curiosity, learning, drive, achievements(professional and at home), and academics (completed degrees in CS/Math are important to me). Grammatical and spelling errors irritate me, a lot . Being cutesy with resumes irritates me. Wasting my time irritates me. I am fine reading resumes that are up to 5 pages in length (but many people aren't). * Suck it up and set u…

>(A `wc` replacement? really?)

you made a poor assumption about what a line of code counter is.

a line in an editor is not necessarily a line of code...

Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

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Post by shayanjm »

gr3yh47 wrote: post #99
hamburglar wrote: post #94

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Saying a person doesn't know how to use git productively based on their personal github projects is simply ridiculous. Nearly everything I put on github is experimental wankery presented as a curiosity, not a release. It has nothing whatsoever to do with my ability to use git productively. I can only conclude that anybody who would make this criticism has a strong "everyone should be just like me" value and is probab…

>Saying a person doesn't know how to use git productively based on their personal github projects is simply ridiculous. thank you. i agree.

If you have your personal projects listed in your resume - you'd better make damn sure they are at least 80% polished and _SHOW OFF_ your skills. If they are not/do not, don't list them in your resume or make them private.

Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

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Post by Justen »

avinassh wrote: post #97
Justen wrote: post #12

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Piggy backing off of this, I have an invite to https://careers.stackoverflow.com/ if you'd like to set up your resume there. I set up mine there and it's gotten me a lot of interviews.

Does it matter how many rep points you have on SO network to get interview calls?

I haven't heard anyone mention it to me explicitly. Can't hurt though!

Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

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Post by pnathan »

gr3yh47 wrote: post #101
pnathan wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Seriously, everyone is failing on comprehension on that one sentence. I'm an expert in my field looking to pivot to another. Expert SYSTEMS engineer. I'm changing the sentence to prevent future misreads. If one person calls you a skunk, ignore them. When two people call you a skunk, sniff. When three people call you a skunk? You're probably a skunk. ;-) (edit: you totally miscommunicated. that's why everyone is rea…

not a pure line count. a program that counts lines of actual code. excludes comments, tracks lines of code that span multiple lines in the text editor, ignores whitespace lines. damn, the assumptions people make

Reviewing my old hacker news comments, saw this thread.

So. A word to the wise. When you can't communicate what you've done, you are the person with the communications issue. It does not help to be defensive; it actually hurts.

A source line of code counter can do a lot of things. You've neatly failed to communicate what you did in your resume, communicating "wc -l". You claim it to be a CLOC-esque program, which does not stand out to me. Fair enough, maybe my reading and inference skills need improvement. But, don't let me infer the wrong thing in your communications, especially in relation to a resume.

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