gentleteblor

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by gentleteblor 10y ago
Building JobRudder [1], an app to help anyone prove they deserve a job, raise or promotion. [1] https://jobrudder.com
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I use the Microsoft Stack (ASP.NET MVC5, C#, SqlServer, run in Azure) for JobRudder [1]. I wanted to pick something boring (and extremely stable) for my tech stack. Building a company is hard enough without wrangling with new frameworks&#x2
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I don't think version control is the issue here. I think the real issue is that we keep trying to manage the resume as if it's the source of truth. We need a source of truth for our careers. And from that source of truth we should
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I don't lie. I make sure my resume speaks the lingo though. W What's the lingo? At the highest level, it's corporate speak. Slightly below that it's industry specific terminology, below that it's position specific c
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I'd like to help.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
Dell XPS 15. - Build quality is excellent - The form factor is terrific (physical size of a 14-incher) - You can get it with the latest desktop i7s and a boatload of RAM - Good battery life (skip the 4k screen)
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
Antony & The Johnsons. It's sad and beautiful.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
This. Too many designers/sites equate tiny, close spaced text with modernity/sleekness. Don't make me squint.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
A few .NET wrappers exist...but it's always felt heavyweight for me (my use case is pretty rare). I am hoping this makes it trivially easy. We'll see how it goes.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I've always wanted to use Tesseract on .NET projects but it was always clumsy (wrappers). This looks like it'll make things easier. Thanks for putting this out.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
> Many of the devs who struggle the most have some difficulty giving themselves credit for things they've done Ain't that the truth. I've been an engineer for a decade, I built a career app, I blog about career management,
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
This is why the resume endures despite it's many flaws (talked about this in some other comments). There needs to be a summarized, editorialized version of your "history" and that's what the resume does in a (semi) stand
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I'm always excited when alternatives to the resume work. Glad it did for you. Did you happen to post about this anywhere (on a blog maybe?). I'd love to see the narrative version and hopefully learn a thing or two.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
It's not the new resume by a long shot. But it does point to some large flaws resumes have. Resumes in their current form don't work well as a source of truth about anyone's career. The main issue being that we put summarized
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I agree. I really like the move towards a better source of truth for our careers but I think it should be private. Let me customize it easily (e.g. for a role or job) and present that customized view to different audiences.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I like where this is going (i've built something similar, if private [1]). Resumes in their current form don't work well as a source of truth about anyone's career. The main issue being that we put summarized/editorializ
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5 Reasons to Track Your Achievements at Work(jobrudder.com)
1 points by gentleteblor 10y ago|0 comments
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A Simple Framework for Handling Customer Feedback(blog.drift.com)
2 points by gentleteblor 10y ago|0 comments
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
Yes, I think you should be direct. Some more things to keep in mind: - Make sure you gather proof of how you've grown and all your accomplishments. Don't expect your manager or HR to know or keep track of this for you. Even better
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
That is a bummer. I also have RP but I'm only down to about 10% of night vision (i remember being able to see much better at night). How's your day vision? Much luck (and peace) to you.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I'm rereading the Malazan Book Of The Fallen series. Finished Gardens of the Moon last night. It only gets better.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
This is great news all around. More flexibility for .Net developers, GCE gets access to a market segement Azure and AWS have dominated so far. Well done.
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Do You Have a Great Career?(jobrudder.com)
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
Do you have RP or something similar? What else is on your bucket list? Apologies if the questions are too personal, I find what we miss when we lose sight very interesting. Hope you get to see them again.
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I don't see your comment as an attack (criticizism is aok), but i do want to understand it. Are you saying that i am simultaneously minimizing gender diversity in tech ("what about da menz") AND encouraging more folks to do s
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
It's a bummer you couldn't comment further, this thread is going to look a little out of order. But let's get real here. This isn't about male victimization. This is about the inability of a privileged class to see it&#x
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I think my usage of "mansplaining" is pretty ideal here. It describes a specific behavior almost entirely practiced by men and which is being practiced right here and now. The interesting part about "mansplaining" (as it
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
True. HN never seems more like Reddit than when we're discussing diversity (gender, race, economic). All the bad habits (mansplaining, straw man arguments etc.) you find elsewhere seem to suddenly rise to the surface. Distressing indee
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
I think it's extremely important for folks over 40 to track their accomplishments. Their resumes are longer, their skills can be older, some of the companies they've worked for might not even exist anymore. It's even more imp
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by gentleteblor 10y ago
There are few ML libraries out there for .NET (.e.g ACCORD), but nothing near what you can get with say Python. I hope things improve.

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