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My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by maccard »

ekianjo wrote: post #36
godzillabrennus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Requesting Years of experience can also be considered discrimination

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by ak39 »

khazhou wrote: post #27
mbrock wrote: post #14

Contemporary programmer: spends a whole weekend tweaking CSS parameters, asking web forums for LaTeX templates, finding a cool fresh font pairing on Google Fonts. 1980s programmer: sits down at the typewriter and bangs out a fixed width table, finishes with a signature.

Ha! The trashcan is usually full of crumpled-up failed attempts. But the smell of typewriter ink. Man, I miss it.

But it's more than the romance of the ink that is missed. One has lost the visual impact of all discards with the use of the virtual trashcan. The psychology of seeing or the stark visual impact of a trashcan filled to the brim with all the imperfect and therefore discarded attempts of one's creative effort is lost - almost forever. These were the metrics of effort now untenable in the virtual trashcan. Gone. Who knows how one's next attempt would have shaped out or re-imagined had one seen even a few of the uncountable crumpled up balls of paper strewn across the room? Maybe a signal to give up? Maybe a sign to believe that one hasn't reached even half way to acceptable quality?

The mess is still there but only now one keeps the detritus of all of one's creative efforts, all the previous discarded attempts, silently gunked up in the recesses of the forgetful mind.

One would argue that version control might be sufficient to trace the evolution of ideas. But no. One would still miss the violence of the mind changes, of reckless scribbles or of reattempts that often take place in between the commits. Things are forever lost in the virtual trashcan and it's blunt implement, the backspace.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by guitarbill »

JayMickey wrote: post #29
lalit10368 wrote: post #25

What do you mean "we just put him in a home"?

Typically means they put him in a retirement or nursing home. [1] [1]: http://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/put-someone-in-a-home-insti...

Also, in this case "just" probably refers to time only (as in very recently; in the immediate past), and not the more colloquial usage in the sense of "just put it over there". (English is hard.)

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by docdeek »

RLN wrote: post #43

Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.

CVs here in France not only typically include date of birth but also a photo and marital status, too. None of this is relevant to the job search but it's how things are done.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by tannhaeuser »

pests wrote: post #8
cja wrote: post #3

Isn'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.

Does it matter? Like really. I personally have almost everything I write or do backed up in various git repo, why not? Literally my resume folder, with one file, has its own repo. Can I not push this to GitHub and share it? Its not a source control system. I'm sure you know this but you are interacting with a website, not git itself. Furthermore GitHub offers their pages feature which turns any repo into a website. I…

I'm guessing GP is uncomfortable with very few web sites having all the content. Does your CV or any content on GH other than source code matter? Does a project that doesn't even have a real web site matter? Like really?
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