My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 • Hacker News Board

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by syntaxing » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #150

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.

The person you're replying to was joking.

hah, that went right over my head.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by astura » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

rytis wrote: post #109

falcor84 wrote: post #70

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I really have no idea what you're talking about. I absolutely hated paper. The inconvenience of wanting to add some content higher up the page and having to redo the whole page to achieve that was infuriating to me. I for one am quite pleased that I no longer have as many violent urges when I'm composing text.

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…

I'm old enough to have typed papers in my youth. It sucked because you had to write it twice, one draft by hand, then type it up. When you were drafting you had to physically cut and paste, with scissors and tape. It was annoying and didn't improve workflow at all.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by another-cuppa » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

I don't understand why this is on github. Are you going to accept pull requests?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by grigjd3 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #136

k__ wrote: post #75

lol, just a few days ago I was asked if I could do a Fortran project.

My first programming language was Fortran, writing GOTO lines everywhere and making spaghetti logic was fun

What version of Fortran were you using that you needed gotos?

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by itsthecourier » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:29 PM UTC

Letter was dated in 1980, guy had like 16 years of experience on the belt already.

So he was 54 years at the time, and started coding at 38.

or maybe he started earlier and didn't mention it.

Would have been cool to work with him and makes you think about doing what you love for as long as you can

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by jason_slack » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:36 PM UTC

Inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Perhaps my resume can learn something from this.

Your dad seems like quite a guy :-)

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by clamprecht » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

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.

Look at current secretary job postings in China. Even if you can't read Chinese, you can see the measurement requirements in centimeters. Yes, those measurements (bust, waist, hip).

Here's an indeed.com search for "cm" that pulls them up: https://cn.indeed.com/jobs?q=cm

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by reaperducer » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

srik wrote: post #71

bdz wrote: post #49

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Signed

Thanks. I'm unaware of that practice. Wonder what purpose it serves given the signature is pretty obvious.

Trail of accountability in the event that what was typed isn’t exactly what was dictated. (Typos usually)

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by Spooky23 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:51 PM UTC

drmpeg wrote: post #64

Looks like his SSN is crossed out. I was cleaning out some junk in my house and found an old telephone directory from when I worked at a military contractor in the 80's. It had everyones SSN on it. Times have changed.

My college posted test grades by ssn!

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by smithmayowa » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:51 PM UTC

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.

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 but he helped make it grow, I will definitely like to work with someone like that.