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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 fermienrico »

ak39 wrote: post #45
khazhou wrote: post #27

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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 kno…

You should write. This was amazing to read. Do you have a blog?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by 3rdAccount »

walshemj wrote: post #227
khazhou wrote: post #27

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

I still miss the IBM selectric typewriter :-)

I enjoyed learning how they added a rotating ball to that typewriter and hooked it up to some kind of mainframe for the first APL implementation I think.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by Jhsto »

user5994461 wrote: post #99
dessant wrote: post #65

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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…

No European has ever used an Europass CV to apply to a job.

I see that some grad schools in Europe want a Europass CV. Is this more or less what it is meant for, or are there other niche use-cases?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by imesh »

smithmayowa wrote: post #160
syntaxing wrote: post #145

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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.

It will be very cool if he could though, as I do believe he will much rather work on something he loves doing and is good at rather than being committed to a nursing home, besides it will definitely be a sight to see, a 92 year old man hacking away on a system, debugging, writing code, and joining up in meetings, He was literally alive when computing was not a thing or worth much and he got to not just see it grow bu…

Is this a troll?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by chiph »

Spooky23 wrote: post #201
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.

1980s programmer bangs it out on a legal pad and hands it off to a friendly face in the typing pool!

My first job out of college (1991), my mom asked me if I got a secretary. Errr, no. But OP's father probably had a secretary assigned to the programming group.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by uvee »

Footkerchief wrote: post #221
uvee wrote: post #217

That font looks lovely, what would be closest alternative I could find today to make my editor look that way? Not even sure what I should be googling for.

Monospaced fonts, especially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface)

Yeah, looks very similar to the Courier font. Thanks!

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by Stratoscope »

tinbucket wrote: post #141
pjmobile wrote: post #50

Does the paper have any watermark? I'd like to know the brand. Almost 40 years old and not yellowed - that's amazing.

Yellowing in paper is a combination of factors, primarily cellulose content, acidity, and exposure to light, heat, and air. Decent bond paper from the 1980s will generally look just fine if it's stored in a dry box. It has a low acidity and will normally have a higher dag content do will age more slowly. Exposing it to sunlight and/or excessive heat will cause it to age. If it's high cellulose paper, like a newspaper…

"higher rag (cotton) content", in case anyone is wondering what "dag" is.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by chiph »

astura wrote: post #147
23232323 wrote: post #139

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This is/was distinct to military contractors & personnel. Not typical of the 80s AFAIR at least

Why military contractors?

To see if you'll fit in the cockpit and/or tank driver's seat. In the 1940's the military had just discovered that not all pilots were the same size.

> “The old air force designs were all based on finding pilots who were similar to the average pilot,” Daniels explained to me. “But once we showed them the average pilot was a useless concept, they were able to focus on fitting the cockpit to the individual pilot. That’s when things started getting better.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

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