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我父亲 1980 年的简历与技能
My dad's resume and skills from 1980
2018 — 2022，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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这个GitHub页面展示了作者父亲1980年的简历和技能列表，是一份简洁清晰的老式简历。评论中人们回忆了早期计算机行业的面貌，并对比了今天的招聘和技能积累方式。
为什么经久不衰：它让人们看到计算机行业早期从业者的职业路径和技能积累方式，引发对现代快节奏技术变迁的怀旧与反思。
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回忆70年代早期计算机行业从业者多为退伍军人，从硬件底层学起，编程是稀有技能。
70年代初我进入计算机行业时，经常遇到像Ray这样的人——退伍军人，通过GI Bill受教育，职业生涯中期从电力学起学习计算机，通常是大机厂商的客户工程师，或小型机新贵。有时还能和设计机器的实验室人员吃饭。很难形容当时一切多么新。1973年商用计算机还不到20年，大学招生材料会吹嘘校园里有两台计算机。我记得机构总内存超过1MB那天，已是70年代末。编程是稀有技能，连教的人也在学。
walnutclosefarm查看英文原文
When I first entered the working world as a programmer and administrator of an "academic computing center", in the early 70s, you met men like Ray - ex-military, GI-bill educated, learned computers from the electricity on up in their mid-career, rather frequently, either as customer engineers for one of the big mainframe manufacturers (there were 7 or 8, depending on when and how you counted), or from the minicomputer upstarts who were then assaulting the mainframe world of computing with their smaller, cheaper, 12 and 16 bit newcomers. Sometimes you'd get the privilege of a lunch or dinner with one sent out "from the lab" who was actually designing and building the machines you were working on. It's hard to explain just how new it all felt, then. But in 1973, even though we were sitting on the cusp of the single chip microprocessor and personal computer revolution, the commercial computer was less than 20 years old, and college recruiting materials might well brag that at their institution, there were not one, but two computers on campus. I remember the day the total RAM at our institution passed the megabyte mark - closer to the end, than the beginning, of the 1970s. The ability to "program" was a rare skill - even the people who taught it were still just learning it.
呼吁恢复直接上门应聘的招聘方式，批评初创公司过度面试。
如果极简简历吸引人，能不能也恢复直接上门应聘？在仓库和建筑行业，如果某人周一早上7:30出现，工头很可能有活给他。我20多岁时靠这个付房租，他们甚至让我早走去做我的互联网生意，因为我没有家庭负担。为什么精品创业公司要面试500个资历过高的人？直接雇一个，不想干就走再雇一个。这只是生意而已。
zackmorris查看英文原文
If the minimalist resume is appealing, can we also bring back walk-on hiring? In warehouse and construction work, if someone shows up at 7:30 AM on a Monday morning, odds are quite good that the foreman will have something for them to do. Maybe not that day, but maybe tomorrow, or maybe someone on the list above them won't show up that week and they'll get called. I made rent doing that in my early 20s and they even let me leave early sometimes to work on my internet business because I didn't have a family to support and maybe someone else had a bill they needed to pay and wanted my shift. Why again does boutique startup need to interview 500 overqualified people? Hire someone right away and let them quit if they want to and hire someone else. It's just business for crying out loud.
赞赏这种简洁清晰的简历格式，反对花哨设计。
能不能恢复这种简历格式？信息组织清晰，易读易记。不需要五星技能评分、双色背景、难读字体之类。
rmnclmnt查看英文原文
Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember. No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...
分享母亲60年代使用IBM/360的经历，以及接触磁芯内存的怀旧感。
我母亲60年代是系统分析师。她在尼日利亚伊巴丹大学参与安装全新IBM/360，负责写管理软件。她说那是顶级型号，64K内存。有一次故障，要换内存板，那是用细丝悬挂铁磁芯的网格。她把坏板带回家给我玩。虽然我后来用打孔卡写软件，80年代组装PC，但我认为手捧磁芯内存的那一刻是我一生中最接近“底层硬件”的时刻。
a4isms查看英文原文
My mother was a systems analyst in the 1960s. She got a contract as part of a team installing a brand-new IBM/360 at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, her job was to write administration software. She told me it was a top-of-the-line model with 64K of RAM. At some point, it had a malfunction and they had to replace one of its memory "boards," which were lattices with ferromagnetic cores suspended on filaments. She brought the defective board home for me to play with. Although I went on to write software on punch cards, and built a PC in the 1980s, I think the moment that I held core memory in my hands was the closest I've really gotten to "the metal" in my life.
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