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My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by mkhalil »

chestervonwinch wrote: post #148
rytis wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. However the inflexibility of the physical media (pen/typewriter+paper) forced people to think and plan before they acted. These days, not so much, and I can see the difference in approach when my kids are writing essays - back in the day we were taught to come up with a little plan, toc, etc before getting down to the details. Now my kids just spit it out without structure, then add bits an pieces here and ther…

It's called agile essay writing.

There is Agile Technical Writing.

https://www.drexplain.com/press/articles/agile_technical_wri...

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Post by gcb0 »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #123

Is your dad for hire? We have this legacy toolchain in cobol and IBM assembler running on a bunch of mainframes and are just not ready to migrate to our brand new Itanium servers we have ordered a while ago. Our engineers are busy porting all the logic but need help understanding the inner workings of the old setup. While they're at it, we have this small list of features we'd like to have added to the old version...…

if not a joke, I know a retired cobol expert (not sure about ibm asm) that would be interested. reply here with some means of contact and I will connect you.

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Post by Ultimatt »

astura wrote: post #204
crunchlibrarian wrote: post #186

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You must be quite fortunate to have such excellent connections amongst the privileged elite, most people will never get past "the algorithm" if they don't stuff their resumes full of buzzwords to even get past some python script. Many companies these days install tracking software on workstations, as well as for programming challenges during the interview process. IBM and defense contractors are known for the good ol…

Maybe in silicon valley startups, but not in most places. Honestly. >I used to work at Ball and was pushed out for complaining about every single face in every single meeting being white I doubt that's why you were "pushed out..." Or maybe "complaining" was not done in a constructive manner. (My uncle thinks he gets "pushed out" of all the jobs he's ever had because of some silly reason like this[1] but it's actually…

Silicone is the stuff of shower sealant and plastic surgery. Silicon is the thing embeded circuits are made of. FWIW. The idea of a silicone valley did make me smile though, thanks for that.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by booleandilemma »

Wow, a resume from an era when programming was a respectable job, instead of the circus of group interviews, take home tests, whiteboard tests, and non-stop emails from this new class of people whose sole job it is to find programmers jobs. Before hiring managers asked you if you’re familiar with agile, SOA, TDD, microservices, BDD, Domain Driven Design and that JavaScript framework that came out last year.

What a different world we live in.

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Post by dannypgh »

syntaxing wrote: post #145
iforgotpassword wrote: post #123

Is your dad for hire? We have this legacy toolchain in cobol and IBM assembler running on a bunch of mainframes and are just not ready to migrate to our brand new Itanium servers we have ordered a while ago. Our engineers are busy porting all the logic but need help understanding the inner workings of the old setup. While they're at it, we have this small list of features we'd like to have added to the old version...…

I doubt it. The post explicitly states that s/he had to put him in a nursing home which means chances are that he cannot live comfortably independently.

Is having the ability to live independently really a prerequisite? You wouldn't know it based on the standard bigcorp benefits package.

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Post by pietro »

et2o wrote: post #202

Did he have to draw the underlines with a ruler and pen?

Typewriters let you backspace _over_ what was already there, so we just typed the word, used backspace to get the beginning of the word, and then typed underscores until the word was effectively underlined.

In fact, you could double underline a word by moving half a line down (that was a thing) and then create the underline with equal signs.

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Post by astura »

Ultimatt wrote: post #213
astura wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe in silicon valley startups, but not in most places. Honestly. >I used to work at Ball and was pushed out for complaining about every single face in every single meeting being white I doubt that's why you were "pushed out..." Or maybe "complaining" was not done in a constructive manner. (My uncle thinks he gets "pushed out" of all the jobs he's ever had because of some silly reason like this[1] but it's actually…

Silicone is the stuff of shower sealant and plastic surgery. Silicon is the thing embeded circuits are made of. FWIW. The idea of a silicone valley did make me smile though, thanks for that.

I rely on auto correct/auto fill too much... On a related note... I hate that every time I put ID it gets "corrected" to "I'd."

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by ilaksh »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #123

Is your dad for hire? We have this legacy toolchain in cobol and IBM assembler running on a bunch of mainframes and are just not ready to migrate to our brand new Itanium servers we have ordered a while ago. Our engineers are busy porting all the logic but need help understanding the inner workings of the old setup. While they're at it, we have this small list of features we'd like to have added to the old version...…

He has severe dementia unfortunately. I just thought it might be interesting to people to see what technologies were in use at those times. My dad loves to play catch with his stuffed doggie (or whatever you will throw to him) but activities more complicated than that are not feasible.

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Post by dannypgh »

smnrchrds wrote: post #172
lotsofpulp wrote: post #54

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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.

Alas, it is trivial for employers to guess a candidate's age with resonable accuracy, as most people have their education timeline in their resume.

I'd think most people who are worried about age discrimination would drop their matriculation year from their resume.
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