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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 Klover »

paradite wrote: post #30
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.

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…

I am also sympathetic to the person you are replying to. All that happened was someone asking a question, then people being sarcastic and unkind, and using the downvote button to express their dislike for such horrible questions.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by quakenul »

inawarminister wrote: post #78

Put in a home? Why wouldn't you want to spend all the last time on this mortal earth with your parents, and holding their hands as they leave this lifetime? Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one? I don't understand Western opinion on this matter. But on topic, that is one concise application letter. Cheers for your dad efforts back then!

Yes, you don't. Lifes and circumstances vary as much as the oceans and asking assuming questions on emotional topics without at least first trying to get near the person having to make the decision seems really pointless.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by watmough »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #68
fit2rule wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I'm baby-sitting Java devs as "senior" atm. They don't know much, but what little they know they're defending with fervor, like "REST", Spring crap, and rubbish pseudo-modularization using "microservices". Worst, taking random architecture astronaut blog posts as dogma, incapable of reflecting whether something makes sense for a given task ("SQL is too old-school and low-level (!)"). Makes you really think about what…

No phrase terrifies me so much as 'Entity Framework'.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by watmough »

vultour wrote: post #74
Aeolun wrote: post #19

I doubt a resume like this a would even be considered today. It's missing pretty much all the bling.

What bling? It seems like a completely acceptable CV even today.

I got my current job from a resume like this.

My boss specifically commented how my resume wasn't full of bullshit.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by throwaway8879 »

inawarminister wrote: post #78

Put in a home? Why wouldn't you want to spend all the last time on this mortal earth with your parents, and holding their hands as they leave this lifetime? Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one? I don't understand Western opinion on this matter. But on topic, that is one concise application letter. Cheers for your dad efforts back then!

Why? Nobody ever asked my consent about coming into existence filled mostly with misery and struggle. Why do I owe them anything?

Repayment for what exactly? I never asked for any of this.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by marvin »

dessant wrote: post #65
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.

The Europass CV lists various personal information for inclusion, including address, date of birth and sex. The online editor[0] mentions that all fields are optional, and some of them are listed under extra fields, but before the online editor, these templates circulated only as Word documents for about a decade, with less nuanced instructions. It was implied that you had to fill out the template properly, including…

I'm recruiting for an outsourced team in Portugal at the moment. They include photos on their CVs. Date of birth and marital status is pretty much standard in Norway as well.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #85
inawarminister wrote: post #78

Put in a home? Why wouldn't you want to spend all the last time on this mortal earth with your parents, and holding their hands as they leave this lifetime? Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one? I don't understand Western opinion on this matter. But on topic, that is one concise application letter. Cheers for your dad efforts back then!

Why? Nobody ever asked my consent about coming into existence filled mostly with misery and struggle. Why do I owe them anything? Repayment for what exactly? I never asked for any of this.

You don't have kids, do you?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by tmalsburg2 »

inawarminister wrote: post #78

Put in a home? Why wouldn't you want to spend all the last time on this mortal earth with your parents, and holding their hands as they leave this lifetime? Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one? I don't understand Western opinion on this matter. But on topic, that is one concise application letter. Cheers for your dad efforts back then!

Ah, isn't it easy to judge other people based on just one sentence?!

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by throwaway8879 »

mrhappyunhappy wrote: post #88
throwaway8879 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Nobody ever asked my consent about coming into existence filled mostly with misery and struggle. Why do I owe them anything? Repayment for what exactly? I never asked for any of this.

You don't have kids, do you?

Why would I? I would hope that any decent and truly moral person would not bring another human into existence as long as there is the slightest chance of suffering, no matter how small it is.
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