Looks like a simpler time. You just say what you did. No need to BS it up to sound like you are gods gift to programming. And once you get the job probably no logging every second of your time.
My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#52What’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.
I was 16 in 1986 when I started programming C. Replacing all the old fogeys with their Fortrans and Cobols and .. shudder .. A/PL .. This is not a new thing, this teenage thing.
Tomorrow I guide some teenage punk through the wasteland of mobile development. Undoubtedly he's gonna throw some new shit at me. Hah!
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#53What 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.
Q: What's the difference between a house and a home?
A: A home is where they put you when they want the house.
That resume is from shortly after he turned 54.
It must have been hard looking for a job at that age and I don't think the economy was brilliant in 1980 either.
That was when Reagan got elected after Carter had only one term.
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#54"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.
date of birth is illegal? Probably one of the more irrelevant things, as it is easily deductible from the rest of the entries.
Date of birth, either by request from employer or voluntarily given by employee, is not illegal. However, anyone with half a brain won't use it since that's just asking for a discrimination lawsuit since there is no more plausible deniability.
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#55If I lived through 3 wars and had a strong career alignment with major defense contractors, I suppose I'd be inclined to disclose health and height out of habit...but was this generally expected on a resume back in the 80s?
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#56Earlier 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.
Yes. But you usually don't do that to trigger an aegism detector. Also, if you include previous work experiences (with dates obviously) one can still determine how old you are.
Nevertheless, once you go there in person for your interview, people will notice anyway.
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#57Isn'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.
> 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?
If Github Pages wouldn't be a thing, I'd have been inclined to agree. Ever since, though, such usage of Github strikes me as fair game.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
"A home" refers to some sort of permanent assistant living facility. In this case it's probably a nursing home.
Q: What's the difference between a house and a home? A: A home is where they put you when they want the house. That resume is from shortly after he turned 54. It must have been hard looking for a job at that age and I don't think the economy was brilliant in 1980 either. That was when Reagan got elected after Carter had only one term.
It was not, and stayed not the next 5+ years
There was a recession, actually
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 merel…
Your comment reminds me to the classic when Dropbox was first shown here
>For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It's the simplicity. That's all. Making things easier and more accessible. I don't know how can I explain it more because that's the whole point of Github Pages, like on their site "Websites for you and your projects". And that's it.