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MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV
- z8000 17y agoThe dog creeps me out. This looks like interesting research: http://www.squicky.org/work/sca07gtw/ http://www.squicky.org/work/sca07gtw/ Anyone know much about motion capture? Is it something that is now doable at any sort of homebrew budget levels nowadays?
- skennedy 17y agoThe dog creeps you out, but the "I am actually a deadly robot sent from the year 2748 to kill you!!" you are okay with?
- kevingadd 17y agoIt's kind of a comforting thought - if there are deadly robots being sent back from the year 2748, that means the human race survived global warming and was able to invent time travel!
- rick_2047 17y agowhats more comforting is that, if they are able to send back things into time then we would have enough computational capabilities to solve the time space anomalies and paradoxes of time travel.
- bad_user 17y agoOr maybe he ended-up here by accident.
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- aantix 17y agoDwight Schrute: And how big do you want this robot? Michael Scott: Lifesize. Dwight Schrute: Mmm no. Better make it two-thirds. Easier to stop if it turns on us.
- MikeCapone 17y agoThis made the rounds on Reddit (and probably other sites). Looks like its successful at getting attention, which is more than can be said about most CV/resumé pages..
- johnswamps 17y agoIt's cute, but it's only popular because the guy actually has some real credentials. If you tried this with a medicore resume it wouldn't work.
- jrockway 17y agoWell, without "real credentials", it's a webcomic. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. I completely forgot this was non-fiction until I read the HN title again.
- nikgregory 17y agoAgreed, it's not really anything more than a gimmick. However, if it only appears once in a few thousand applications it's going to grab attention while someone is trying to figure out what the heck it is.
- abecedarius 17y agoReminds me of http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/ http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/
- phaedrus 17y agoThanks for the link, that's really trippy.
- apsurd 17y agoWow that was wonderful! Makes me want to cultivate my inner artist. For the curious; there are 56 pages =D
- nuba 17y agoVery cool, thanks for the pointer! Extra stuff: when you click the "buy" link (in one of the last slides) it takes you to the book's page on Amazon. Now scroll down and check the Video reviews. You'll see a video of the writer interviewing her book, talk show style, with the stove in the background :)
- ntownsend 17y agoI found that book a little too precious.
- skennedy 17y agoMy favorite CV "presentation" will always be: http://web.me.com/agueniot/Data/Flash/cven.html http://web.me.com/agueniot/Data/Flash/cven.html Pulling out a 2004 link, but it has stayed in my Bookmark archive for years.
- messel 17y agoGarry Tan has a good take on it's draw. Ms paint on a cartoon website is the low-fi of today. "like owning vinyl records"
- voidpointer 17y agoNice way to look out for an employer with sense of humor. This will be dismissed by all the people you wouldn't want to be working for in the first place. Unless you are really desperate, it looks like a great strategy to end up working with people that are actually nice.
- chancho 17y agoYes this is a great way to weed out all those stodgy kids-movie-and-video-game animation studios.
- waldrews 17y agoThought CV stood for Computer Vision; was confused.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoCurriculum Vitae - it's what most countries call a resume'.
- ambiate 17y agoAs a person who has never completed a webpage, I should thank this guy for finally ending this cycle. I read every part of his page and was even checking the backlinks out of curiosity. MSPaint has a strange way of pulling me in; then never letting me go :(
- Tichy 17y agoThis should work very well - for getting employed by his mum?
- rudin 17y agoA little on a tangent but I'd like to dispute the conception of MS Paint as something that can only create poor art. Take a look at the following: http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/mspaint.html http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/mspaint.html