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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested?
- blhack 15y agoIt might be worth adding: "I'm Rob Malda. When you hire me, it's going to be the best advertising money you ever spend when every tech outlet in the world covers the story about where I am now working."
- cmdrtaco 15y agoI'll get that into v2.0 ;)
- pork 15y agoRob, long-time /. fan who migrated over to HN when the signal-to-noise ratio exceeded my threshold. I just wanted to say thank you, and also that it's slightly ironic that you seem to be following the same path over to HN... :)
- nolok 15y agoThat's not irony. Also that's probably not even true, I would guess that cmdrtaco keeps reading slashdot for old time's sake if nothing else (you don't erase 14 years easily), and in 2011 it turns out you can visit several websites instead of giving allegiance to the One and only.
- hemos 15y agoIndeed; and I tend to think of visiting HN, Reddit etc as like going to visit my kids/grandkids. They've grown so much!
- pork 15y agoTo continue the analogy...do you feel that /. is wasting away, or is it just attracting a different demographic these days?
- mixmastamyk 15y agoWhy is that? I've been reading it for years (given at a high threshold) and it seems like the same old slashdot to me. It's also a great deal friendlier place than this one.
- kls 15y agoIt's also a great deal friendlier place than this one My experience has been the the opposite, I stopped contributing to user forum based sites after I left /. and did not do so for a long time. I read HN for a while before deciding that it was home, and it was, because in my perception, there was a lot less "I'm the smartest guy in the room" conversations. Take that with a grain of salt though, because it has been a long long time since I have been over there. Things almost assuredly have changed since then. Has anyone else had the same positive impression of the exchanges over there? Most the posts I see on the subject tend to complain that there is still a lot of it going on.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoThere's probably more bravado but I tend not to notice it, in the sense that the brain tunes out noise. However, I find that different from the active downvoting of (what in real-life would be considered) the niceties of conversation. E.g. I don't think I've ever been downvoted on slashdot but if I did it would be for spam or hate, not a "thanks."
- kls 15y agoOK I get you, I guess it is all in personal comforts, I personally don't suffer tech bravado well, I have run across that arch-type in real life too may times and it has always made (for me) getting good ideas done difficult to impossible. To the extent that when confronted with it, too many times, I will disengage, whether it be a site or a project/job/activity. I have come to understand that it is born out of stubborn ignorance and that it cannot be, or I do not have the capacity to, navigate around it, I therefore choose to not engage it. On the flip side I can see where legitimate comments getting down-voted could be taken as rude, the ones I hate to see are new people asking legitimate questions and then getting dog-pilled into oblivion, but it is the nature of the site. I do wish there where less of the i don't agree, or my comfort does not like what you say down-votes but for me it is preferable to the "i'm always right" personality. I never really thought about viewing down-votes as rude, save for the occasions where it is evident that it is a group think dog-pile.
- larrys 15y agoLinus Torvalds and Transmeta come to mind.
- ronnier 15y agoAmazon is hiring :D
- ImprovedSilence 15y agoEver have thoughts on doing another startup? I'm sure you've put a significant amount of thought into social interactions and moderation of an environment and it's community, I bet there are some very good translations there into some sort of social media service/internet karma scheme/more accurately focused targeting of peoples actual interests (and lack thereof). I'm willing to bet chatting with you would make for some great intellectually stimulating conversation.
- cmdrtaco 15y agoI'd very much consider it.
- nknight 15y agoI don't think I've ever seen a resumé covering a 14-year tech/tech-related career that fit on one page.
- mcknz 15y agoYou can do that if you have a Wikipedia entry.
- hemos 15y agoI should get him to the post his joke resume. It's not even just one page, it's two lines on one page.
- cmdrtaco 15y agoMy joke resume that I made a month ago: http://cmdrtaco.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Joke-Resume.pdf http://cmdrtaco.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Joke-Resume.p...
- cdibona 15y agoFor the record, I like this one better.
- cmdrtaco 15y agoWhatever resume gets me the best job is my favorite.
- aiham 15y agoYou only need one good one.
- loceng 15y agoWhat kind of job are you looking for, would make you happy?
- tathagatadg 15y ago
- michaelpinto 15y agoAccomplishments: "single handedly destroying the productivity of a generation of nerds"
- Samuel_Michon 15y agoHehe, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I read: "Objective: To use all of my skills to change the world for the better. Again." I can only imagine what great things I would've done with my time if /. hadn't been around. Or maybe I would've simply stayed at the online forum where I was posting before /. came along, wasting my time all the same.
- Joeri 15y agoYou weren't wasting your time, you were becoming a technology generalist. It's a useful skill!
- jgw 15y agoDisappointed that Expertise bullets missed "Stuff that matters" right under "Nerds".
- nolok 15y agoOMG Ponies !!!
- staunch 15y agoDo a new site man. Slashdot->[Digg]->Reddit->CmdrTaco's new site. As much as I have love for Reddit its ripe for replacement.
- r00fus 15y agoAgreed. Slashdot's moderation system is still not replicated well, and it was a rather good implementation.
- redthrowaway 15y agoDigg's not quite dead yet; not sure it needs the brackets.
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- WalterGR 15y agoThis seems to be true. Can anyone explain the downvotes? According to Alexa, Digg is the 190th most popular site in the world. It shows traffic holding steady for the past few months. And clicking on the pageviews tab shows that pageviews have dropped over the last year+ but not extradramatically.
- WalterGR 15y agoHere's a graph comparing ycombinator.com and digg.com: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=t&b=ffffff&n=666666&r=2y&u=ycombinator.com&&u=digg.com& http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...; (Keep in mind that the scale is logarithmic.) As a website owner, I would love it if my site were dying like Digg.
- bobbles 15y agoEver worked in a team?
- kls 15y agoSo is this a legit account, it was created 99 days ago which seems kind of short for someone as wired in as Rob should be, can anyone on this site confirm that the account is indeed Rob? I don't mean to be skeptical but it's the kind of thing that could kill the credibility of the site. A site full of people that pride themselves on being critical (polite but critical, I remind you) being duped does not bode well for attracting people who want scrutiny of their information and not just more confirmation bias. It just seems strange to me, why would Rob be in the market for a job, I could understand being in the market for a team but not a job, unless he did something stupid like I did and lost it all, if so I would love to hear that story. If it is I apologize for being critical I would have just imagined you being here a long time ago. I was one of your first users over on the other site back in the day, I always though based on your post over there that you would love it over here.
- hemos 15y agoI can absolutely confirm that it is him. Although you have to trust that I am in fact, hemos, but the other folks I know on here can attest to that.
- thomson 15y agoMaybe we should implement a PGP-style circle of trust on HN... =D
- leoc 15y agoSeriously, why not create a GPG web of trust?
- randallsquared 15y agoBecause it's already easier without encryption to get people's trust from scratch than it is to impersonate someone else.
- kls 15y agoRight, I get the irony of trusting the guy that says the other guy is the guy. I just though, I either missed something and a few people would pipe up. It's not scientific sure but suffices for my, "well maybe it's him, filter"
- shareme 15y agoDamn if I had a startup right now I would hire you as you are close to me geo-location :) BTW, how is the startup scene in your area of Michigan?
- hemos 15y agoDecent; but not great. Nate is doing http://ingenuitas.com http://ingenuitas.com
- samstave 15y agoI am not sure if i should rate you 5 informative, 5 insightful, or 5 funny! Definitely no -1 overrated though. Alas - I have but only one mod point to give on this den of iniquity!
- plnewman 15y agomod parent up!
- DanielBMarkham 15y agoRob -- you're like Superman. Could Superman have a resume? Seems like you'd just give them a card that said "I'm f*cking CmdrTaco, damnit!" (The reference here is to a famous fake letter said to be from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs http://www.exophrine.com/2011/06/sean-connery-to-steve-jobs-im-f-cking.html http://www.exophrine.com/2011/06/sean-connery-to-steve-jobs-...) Seriously, it brings up a good point. If you have lots of name recognition, what's the best way to look for work? I'd suggest networking, but it's entirely possible to be hugely famous without a deep contact list. I'm not sure Rob has this problem, but if he did, it would be a difficult one to address.
- dchest 15y ago(Note: the letter is fake http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/connery-jobs http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/connery-jobs)
- DanielBMarkham 15y agoEdited to fix. Damn it, I rather liked the thought that Connery would write that. It fits the legend of both men very well. My comment works either way, fortunately.
- sp332 15y agoUm, of James Bond maybe. Sean Connery has a reputation for being a very nice guy.
- sontek 15y agoA very nice guy that supports hitting women ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FgMLROTqJ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FgMLROTqJ0
- sliverstorm 15y agoAn important corollary would be his views on a woman slapping a man. There was a time when slaps directed at either gender were both acceptable.
- tibbon 15y agoIf I hire you, can I get a 3 digit slashdot id?
- cmdrtaco 15y agoThey don't even let me post stories any more, you think they let me re-assign UIDs?
- kls 15y agoIf you seriously want one, you can have mine, I have to dig the username and password up, it's been almost a decade since I last logged in, I am sure I have it in an old email somewhere.
- Tichy 15y agoYou could try selling it on ebay :-)
- SODaniel 15y agoI can throw in my 3 number ICQ id :)
- huhtenberg 15y agoWoah, really? Try auctioning it off in Russia. As of few years ago the going rate for 4 digit UIDs was in tens of thousand dollars.
- scorxn 15y agoNo indent below Education is killing me!
- shortformblog 15y agoReading this resume is like having the resume for Michael Jordan hit your desk. You're so impressed that you don't know what to do at it, other than stare.
- jimktrains2 15y agoWhy is it marked scribd?
- mcpherrinm 15y agoThat's a linked to the scribd HTML version of the PDF.
- grabble 15y agoYou're confusing me Rob. You want to be someone's employee, follow someone else's vision, get a regular paycheck, dental plan yada yada - and yet you want to change the world. Again. It's definitely possible to do, but not as likely, and resumes are a bit played out, esp. for someone with your credentials. Yep. Totally confused.
- kmfrk 15y agoThat's a bit bleak. In corporations, you work for someone; in places like start-ups, you stand a good chance of working with someone. You don't need to be the founder to get into that position, but it's obviously an option.
- grabble 15y agoRob doesn't need to parade around a resume to get in a startup. The boy is prequalified.
- bdr 15y agoImagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
- laconian 15y agoGotta be a fake. Not nearly enough misspellings. ;)
- hack_edu 15y agoResumes that can pull off an 'Objective' line always make me smile. Those that can't make me cringe.
- fowkswe 15y agoWhat did the 2 fingers say to the mouse? CLICK! I'm CmdrTaco Bitch!
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- rch 15y agoI'm working on some interesting things with zndx.org -- email with my username if your're curious.
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- j45 15y agoResspect.
- grabble 15y agoOh Rob, being a long time /. reader, I know you'd ban someone's account to Hades if they did on /. what your doing here. Just sayin.
- cmdrtaco 15y agoNotice that my resume isn't ON Slashdot!
- crcsmnky 15y agoInsert obligatory post from Netcraft confirming that XYZ is dying.
- bad_user 15y agoIn Soviet Russia XYZ confirms Netcraft is dying.
- thiagofm 15y agoYou are very good sir, and also lucky. You are talented and hardworking, but, still lucky. There's a lot of talented and hardworking people here, like you, not as lucky tho.
- blacksmythe 15y ago>> There's a lot of talented and hardworking people here, like you, not as lucky tho. Not denying a significant random component to success, but success does not seem to follow a random distribution. If given a choice between picking someone coming off a big success, or someone who looks equally smart but was only moderately successful, many would choose to bet on the person who was successful last time.
- kls 15y agoThe initial success though given all parts being equal is just as random, so you still have the same odds starting out. It's the same concept as what Buffett calls the *Lucky sperm club". His concept was just applied in the other direction, being born into success.
- rdl 15y agoIf I had that background, I'd probably be most interested in some kind of political/activism startup (e.g. Votizen), or some kind of project/funding startup (e.g. Kickstarter). Presumably there are non-competes to make starting "unslashdotted.org" or something a no-go, and I don't think I'd want to after working on one from 1997-2011.
- option1138 15y agoNot really a lot of relevant experience. Would like to see some Hadoop or heck, even some C#. Let's talk again in a year or two.
- wallacrw 15y agoYour next move should be to rebuild local government with more control and transparency into public dollars. It's what we're doing at CivicSponsor, drop me a line if you want to talk.
- RickMcAsshole 15y agoThat's childsplay compared to http://ezyang.com/ezyang-resume.pdf http://ezyang.com/ezyang-resume.pdf
- j_baker 15y agoSince nobody is playing devil's advocate, I suppose I have to. :-) Have you done anything that doesn't fall under the "slashdot" header? If I saw this resume, my first instinct would be to say "Yeah, he made slashdot, but how do I know he's not a one-trick pony?" Might I suggest a couple of open source projects or something to suggest that there's more to you than a degree and slashdot? I like the nice, simple, and to-the-point layout. But I think it might be a bit extreme.
- 1pointOhhh 15y agoHow Janet Hoilian got more stock then Malda I'll never know. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093580/0000950135-99-005494.txt http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093580/0000950135-99... Agood lesson in there for today's bootstrappers
- ktsmith 15y agoYou need to look for Blockstackers in the document rather than Rob or Jeff.
- shawnee_ 15y agoPersonally posted over 15,000 stories, rejecting a million more. Although 15K is not a small number, for some reason seems like it should be more. I guess that makes every user submitted slashdot story that was posted by cmdrtaco himself that much more cool. An oldie but goodie: http://slashdot.org/story/05/03/02/1456237/yahoo-turns-10-free-ice-cream-for-america http://slashdot.org/story/05/03/02/1456237/yahoo-turns-10-fr...
- brianwillis 15y agoObjective: To use all of my skills to change the world for the better. Again. I normally glance at career objectives, sigh, roll my eyes, and move on to the the meat of the resume, but this one is actually good. Anyone searching for a job, do yourself a favor and follow CmdrTaco's lead. Your career objective shouldn't be long or full of bullshit corporate speak, and if it is that will hurt you more than it helps.
- thewisedude 15y agoKudos to Slashdot! It had a great impact. That is the word I would choose to use, rather than the word "Better". It is because "impact" can be quantitatively measured. "Better" is subjective.
- bane 15y agoRob, if you are still interested in the social media space, have you thought about: a) applying at reddit b) starting up a reddit competitor (your karma system is still among the best I've seen)? If not, what kind of area are you thinking of? I'd imagine your varied skillset would be awesome at a very small startup.
- zotz 15y agoRob, if you're still looking at this thread, check this out: http://cyclos.org http://cyclos.org Change the world for the better by changing the money for the better...it can happen. This software even has a built-in karma system. Thanks for /. Cheers.
- wmoxam 15y agoNo Github profile. Less relevant buzzwords than a resume on Monster.com. Lame.
- billmcneale 15y agoThat's an odd résumé, which doesn't look at all like a software engineer résumé. Is this intentional or is CmdrTaco not an engineer at all? Programming languages? Frameworks? Specifics about the scaling and daily operations of /.? It's also pretty light on the kind of position he's looking for. If I were hiring engineers, I honesty wouldn't know what to do with such a résumé.
- tankenmate 15y agoI think it is safe to say that CmdrTaco is more than just a "mere" engineer.
- billmcneale 15y agoThat's also what I thought until I read his résumé. Which tells me there's something wrong with it.
- SquareWheel 15y agoI pause awkwardly every time I read résumé with the accents.
- lionhearted 15y agoI'm sure you've gotten tons of interest and I'm not 100% sure what we'd do, but I'll fly you out to Beijing and put you up somewhere nice if you want to see if there's a fit. A many-hats-wearing-change-the-world type person can do just about anything they want, when they find the right mix of something that excites them and good people to work with. My finance guy who raises money for projects is here Dec 13th to 23rd so it's particularly a good time, but I'm flexible. Could also meet in Taipei around New Year's if you like. You might want to check up on my crazy antics before you throw in with me though, in the last couple weeks I've gotten a lot of comments ranging from "a literary hero" for the open letter I wrote to S&S to complete maniac, jerk, dick, etc. Anyways, who knows, maybe nothing's there. But we can definitely watch some Cowboy Bebop, check out the Forbidden City, and see if there's anything worth changing in the world. Email in profile if it's interesting to you.
- gallerytungsten 15y agoSo what's your dream job?
- tobych 15y agoTypo? Replace "self moderating" with self-moderating". Thanks for /.