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)
My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#222Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.
The 1980s weren't all that long after they stopped requiring you to include a picture with a job application.
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#223Is 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...…
Oh my. Where I am now we just upgraded the mainframe to a Z14, this machine and software running is not even the current OS for the platform. For my twenty plus years there have been projects afoot to replace it but nothing ever pans out. This machine works in concert with a very large iSeries that for the last ten years has been rumored to be on the table to replace. Then throw in all the AIX/Oracle machines and you get the picture.
The one common reason why all replacement attempts falter if not fail. No one knows all the touch points. No one knows exactly what they really do. Oh its easy to say "that machine is the warehouse inventory and related" but on a grand scale that is a fine description. it is when you get into all the custom interfaces, all the different systems relying on it, then it becomes a whole different ball game.
I full expect the z, i, and p, machines to all be there in the next ten to fifteen years for the same reason they are here now. it gets really expensive to replace something when you don't even know what you truly have. when you do find out it can be far more economical to keep what you got but be more diligent where new apps reside.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am surprised that the EU hasn't clamped down on photos etc on cv's as it's obvious way for employers to discriminate on race.
Names are also a way to discriminate on ethnicity, although they're less reliable: names can be changed. Discrimination occurs in all manner of ways. In many countries, more casual labour the screening is done by a face-to-face interview. Clamping down on photos on a CV is not going to do much in those cases. In the UK it seems it's perfectly alright to have a farm owner appear on a TV news station and be completely…
I was talking about "professional" well paid jobs in particular casual labourers don't have CV's
This is HN I suspect that no one on here is "casual labour"
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume he was applying for security cleared jobs with this CV
Sometimes you enter that information on your CV to demonstrate responsibility and/or trust rather than because you're specifically after another equivalent position
Not no for jobs not requiring SC /DV clearance it would be to "waltish" to brag about your clearance.
BTW a "walt" is short for "walter mitty"
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#226That 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.
I'm neither a typewriter nor font expert but I think it's a monospaced font and since IBM is mentioned maybe it was from an IBM Selectric typewriter?
I've seen font files based on that before, a Google for IBM selectric font looks not totally dissimilar.
Maybe that helps?
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#227Contemporary 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.
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 :-)
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#228Your dad was an American hero, please thank him for all his hard work on my behalf. Men like him built this country by living their lives and raising their children. I'm sure he wasn't perfect, but he's still your dad and I'm sorry you've moved him to a home. Please take good care of him.
Thanks, we are doing our best.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that sounds strange to me - the family of two generations programmers can't afford in-house nursing? I can't imagine putting my parents or grannies in "home" unless I am really poor.
We don't know the whole story... We're gonna assume he is a great person based on his resume in the 80s? My parents are huge assholes and abused me my whole childhood. I'd lock them up if I could.
He is a great person. Please see the comment reply I make.
Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
#230Earlier 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…
This is like complaining about interactive terminals because programmers no longer have to think so hard about their code before writing it out to punch cards....
I think you mean writing it out on coding sheets before sending it to the "girls" to be punched onto card's