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MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV

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It'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.

Well, 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.

Agreed, 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.

Nice 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.

Yes this is a great way to weed out all those stodgy kids-movie-and-video-game animation studios.

My favorite CV "presentation" will always be:

http://web.me.com/agueniot/Data/Flash/cven.html

Pulling out a 2004 link, but it has stayed in my Bookmark archive for years.

When someone is truly good they can really be creative in their methods.

What part of that CV shows he is 'truly good'?

I'm forcing myself to try to understand what can be likable about it. The energy it creates? The consistent enthusiasm?

Reminds me of http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Thanks for the link, that's really trippy.

Wow that was wonderful! Makes me want to cultivate my inner artist.

For the curious; there are 56 pages =D

Very 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 :)

I found that book a little too precious.

This 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..

The dog creeps me out.

This looks like interesting research: 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?

The dog creeps you out, but the "I am actually a deadly robot sent from the year 2748 to kill you!!" you are okay with?

It'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!

whats 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.

Or maybe he ended-up here by accident.

Dwight 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.

A 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

As 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 :(

This should work very well - for getting employed by his mum?

Garry 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"

Thought CV stood for Computer Vision; was confused.

Curriculum Vitae - it's what most countries call a resume'.

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