What do you mean "we just put him in a home"?
"A home" refers to some sort of permanent assistant living facility. In this case it's probably a nursing home.
My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#32Isn't this a misuse of Github? Surely there's a more suitable website for hosting a page with text and pictures than a source control system? I don't mean to pick on this guy - I've seen an several repositories like this recently.
I have sympathy for you for being downvoted. I have raised this issue a couple of times before for using github for things other than hosting source code (hosting online courses, using github issues as calendar or comment system for blogs). No downvotes but people laughed it off like I was suggesting something crazy. You know, facebook started off a social media and now it has become effectively a news outlet and ent…
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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't realise the word "cyber" had been around that long... As much as I (have to) use the word, I didn't know it's background.
Its etymology, as per wikipedia > Cyber- is derived from "cybernetic," which comes from the Greek word κυβερνητικός meaning skilled in steering or governing You might notice it's the same word from which 'Kubernetes' comes from, though Kubernetes is a more legitimate sounding word without the (modern) palatalization of C.
And cognate to "govern".
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#34What’s really remarkable to me is that senior Livesay, the same age as my mother, took a Fortran course in 1968, two years AFTER I did, as a teenager, at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. So the same phenomenon of coding teenagers [possibly] outdoing experienced workers was going on 50 years ago.
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#35What’s really remarkable to me is that senior Livesay, the same age as my mother, took a Fortran course in 1968, two years AFTER I did, as a teenager, at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. So the same phenomenon of coding teenagers [possibly] outdoing experienced workers was going on 50 years ago.
I think more reasonably the same phenomenon of experienced workers needing to update their skills in order to stay relevant was going on 50 years ago.
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
date of birth is illegal? Probably one of the more irrelevant things, as it is easily deductible from the rest of the entries.
Not always. Folks can obtain a degree later in life to throw off the ageism detector.
oh yeah and how do you make up for the years of experience then? fake jobs entries?
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#37"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
> DOBs are illegal And yet recruiters frequently request them up top on resumes.
Really?
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#38One Page resume was still the style in 1980, that's cool. Really well written cover letter as well, hard to see that come by these days.
I am still doing that. One pagers are difficult to write but they save time for anyone reviewing them.
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#39"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
> DOBs are illegal And yet recruiters frequently request them up top on resumes.
recruiters where?
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#40Isn't this a misuse of Github? Surely there's a more suitable website for hosting a page with text and pictures than a source control system? I don't mean to pick on this guy - I've seen an several repositories like this recently.
Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs. I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub. /s Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project”…
Still begs the question how come it's more attractive to put something onto GH pages rather than creating a simple web site from scratch. Yes I know - buying a domain, hosting, SSL, HTML/CSS etc is considerably more effort even for a static site. But should we be satisfied with the de-facto monopolization of the Web and its attention economy and tracking business model? Part of the problem seems also that folks merely strive for "me too" good-enough web presences and experiences on platforms.