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Why does he call out that he is 5'4" I wonder? The "Health: Excellent" seems amusing in today's context too.
Such attitudes all changed drastically just around that time, not in small part because the demand for EE and CS people started outstripping the supply.
The interesting bit about this post is that with that resume, you can still feed a family in 2022 (okay, you won't need any assembler, and one from the set { Fortran, COBOL } will do). I wonder if Python and JavaScript will get you that far 50 years from now?
AngularJS itself singularly powers surprisingly large number of Enterprise applications. So even assuming the unlikely scenario that those languages are dead, and the only useful work is from dinosaurian companies who was too slow to switch, the answer would still be yes. :)
The interesting bit about this post is that with that resume, you can still feed a family in 2022 (okay, you won't need any assembler, and one from the set { Fortran, COBOL } will do). I wonder if Python and JavaScript will get you that far 50 years from now?
I've been writing code professionally for over 25 years now (and I'm 49). I feel like I could keep writing code for the rest of my life. 50 years doesn't sound like that long.
Hug your parents, spend time with your family. If you must code, do so on something you really feel strongly about from here on out.
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One day, long after I'm gone, people will finally accept that Python and JavaScript are no longer young languages. JavaScript is 26 years old, Python is 31. They both continue to grow in importance year-on-year, JavaScript because there is nothing on the horizon which will plausibly replace it, and Python because a large number of industries and programmers genuinely love it. I think there's a nontrivial chance they'…
Why did Python win the war with Ruby? Was it purely the math community deciding this is where we throw our weight and left Ruby the runt of the litter?
Additionally, Python made significant inroads as a teaching/academic language and a scientific/math/ML language.
Way back in 2004, I had been using C/C++, Java and Perl and was ready for something new and useful. I'd heard about Ruby and Python at that point and tried both. Ruby felt too much like Perl for my tastes (no surprise, it's kind of like OO Perl) and while I didn't love the significant whitespace in Python, it just looked cleaner and simpler to me.
I have been using Python off and on ever since. I have worked with Ruby a bit as well. What's funny is that they are fairly similar and I've long argued that the two language communities would be better and stronger if they "joined forces".
But of course people have strong opinions about programming languages. Myself personally, I like Python a lot more than Ruby, but I've been using Go for a few years now and it's my current language of choice.
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Why did Python win the war with Ruby? Was it purely the math community deciding this is where we throw our weight and left Ruby the runt of the litter?
Python is easier to use if you come from a C/C++ style coding background.
I have a similar one for myself, let me scan in it: Front-end ninja 2006-2010 Full-stack unicorn 2010-present Follow me on twitter Times have really changed I guess.
Junior Developer 2020-2021
Senior Developer 2021-present
GitHub repos 387Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember. No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...
Also: I kind of like the concise wording when the writer doesn't feel they need to adhere to STAR. "Duties Included" is the only meat I want to see when I read a resume. I don't care what the specific challenge you faced was, or if your hard work transforming protobufs from one format to another resulted in "23% year over year revenue growth and 3 industry awards" for a product that uses your protobufs 5 layers up th…
As an aside: loved reading the resume.
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I’m assuming you’re concerned with resume manipulation? Or is there another reason you prefer to submit your resume in a non-editable format?
Yep, I've been surprised by the contents of my resume at an interview set up by a recruiter once. "It says on your resume you have extensive experience in X." "I do not." They also have a thing for stripping your name and contact details out and pasting their ugly letterhead over the top. Which I suppose they could still do with a PDF if they have Acrobat Pro.