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My dad's resume and skills from 1980
- miles 2y agoThese two prior submissions generated a lot of interest: 2022, 1482 points, 593 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864 2018, 814 points, 403 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275
- bradley13 2y agoWow. My dad was born at about the same time, but came into programming indirectly: he was an accountant, the company got a computer (Honeywell, maybe?), and he was told to figure out how to use it. So he was purely self-taught. As a teen (so, in the mid-70s) I remember going in after hours to write programs with him, finding primes, perfect numbers and such. Fun times...