An Amaz-ing Resume • Hacker News Board

I have to say, this shows a lot of skills in web development. It's creative, even if the look and feel were borrowed from Amazon. This shows someone who can make something that "Looks like this..."

If only I was hiring...

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by Void_ » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

ma2rten wrote: post #64

quarterto wrote: post #25

My first thought was he'd managed to somehow list himself on Amazon. Now that would be impressive.

Not really. You can create custom listings in Amazon as 3rd party vendor.

Yeah, really, nobody has ever done that before.

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by mnicole » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #7

As much as I like the new idea, I find it really hard to read. It's not that this page itself is bad - I have problems to find reasonable information on a typical Amazon page and his resume just reflects the same: lots of referals to other products and lots of noise. The typography is also very poor / hard to read unfortunately. So - great idea... but I don't think it's going to be a success apart from creating a lot…

This is how I felt. With Amazon pages, I know I can skip most of the text to get to what matters; the reviews. With a résumé, every bit of information is equally important. Amazon's layout wasn't meant to be read that way (for good reason), so using it in this context really throws me off and belittles data that shouldn't be ignored.

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by JosephRedfern » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

JosephRedfern wrote: post #6

Seriously, you'd rather go shopping? Ouch.

(I was referring to the Alert box you get when using the search dropdown....)

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by dionidium » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #75

anonymouz wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to be so. I've only seen similar disclaimers on (copied) Youtube music videos before. This might be the copyright version of "I am not a [racist|homophobe|...], but ...".

Those youtube disclaimers always make me laugh. "I don't own the copyright to this", so why are you posting it then?

Obviously it's because they are confused about copyright

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by mistercow » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 4:33 PM UTC

beaumartinez wrote: post #32

zacharyvoase wrote: post #19

One concern is this, in the footer: > This website was made in Jan 2013 by Philippe Dubost for the sole purpose of a playful and creative job search. No copyright infrigement intended. "No copyright infringement intended" is not a thing. Also, right below that it then says: > © 2013, Philippe Dubost Seems a bit strange to me.

"No copyright infringement intended". Isn't the act of copying Amazon's style intended copyright infringment?

He could probably argue it's a parody, in which case it's not really infringement. But saying "no copyright infringement intended" is like saying "Hey, potential employers! I don't know how copyright works!"

Re: An Amaz-ing Resume

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Post by victorhn » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #84

I have to say, this shows a lot of skills in web development. It's creative, even if the look and feel were borrowed from Amazon. This shows someone who can make something that "Looks like this..." If only I was hiring...

You can copy the source code of any amazon product page, it doesn't necesarily shows "a lot of skills in web development". (I am not saying he doesn't have the skills though).