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edw519's Resume, Leonardo da Vinci Style

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The original written by Leonardo da Vinci is here:

http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum...

The site also took an extremely long time to respond for me, which was kind of amusing given the content when it finally did load:

> I know how, when a website is besieged, to shard data onto the cloud, and make endless variety of mirrors, and fault tolerant disks and RAIDs, and other machines pertaining to such concerns.

You should consider using some of those "secrets" on your own site. :)

Edit: site seems to be responding quickly now. Must have been a momentary blockage in the tubes.

You should consider using some of those "secrets" on your own site. :)

Kinda ironic, huh? I made the decision to leave all that dirty work to Posterous, with whom I've been very happy. Every once in a while it gets sluggish. Perhaps one of them will read this and speed it up when no one's looking.

I've heard good things about them too. Probably just some broken widget between my desk in Sydney and their servers somewhere in North America.

I'm kind of interested in the way many of those large-scale sites have to prioritise availability over response time due to their architecture. At least, that seems to be the way services like GAE work. They guarantee uptime, but latency for things like database queries tends to be fixed and not that fast.

Did you ever present this as a resume to a possible employer? If so, what was the response?

No, just for fun.

If I were hiring, you would qualify. Under the sole condition that, whenever you were to speak, you would use that language form.

Same, and would take great delight in letting him loose with it on "certain" clients :D

Same here.

To the most magnificent and exulted poster,

What mayhaps be a most terrifying thing, as that I speak as doth say on a regular regimen. I am a member of the court of the SCA(Society for Creative Anachronism), and it takes me great pleasure to admit as such, milord.

Great stuff. We find the style quaint and affected, but this kind of formality permits a greater degree of nuance, and thus penetration of insight, than a simpler style. Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" is an excellent example of how a truly great writer can use language to impart the subtlest concepts to a reader's understanding.

I originally wrote this in January, 2010 here on Hacker News in response to Marc Cenedella's blog post:

http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum...

I reposted it on my blog yesterday in anticipation of Leonardo's birthday on April 15.

You're quite a bit early. Or perhaps, 559 years too late.

I got about 30 of your past entries on my RSS today.

If I ran my resume through Google Translate a few times, to some languages and back to English again, I wonder if it would be very similar to this.

Now I want to open an office in Pittsburgh so I can hire edw519.

Very funny. Still, when Leonardo says he can paint as well as anyone, it's true, while I doubt you are the world's expert in network administration.

your page loads like it's from da Vinci's time.

LOL, would be interesting to see the reaction of an employer

-2 for what? :D

I'm almost certain it was because of the first three letters."LOL" and even the simple "haha" are rarely seen as suitable in HN.

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