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* My first thought was "work history? OK, where's your resume?" On second viewing it may be one of those mystery-meat icons, but I don't know what several of them mean, and their hover states don't help. I may not be part of your target audience, but I do hire people, so perhaps I am after all; perhaps small captions below the icons would be a good idea.
* This begs for Easter eggs! I'm not seeing any in the source.
* Tab completion!
Mostly-inane commentary aside, I like it. Well done!
Tried 'sudo apt-get install bash-completion', didn't work :(
You can read the source for it here (sorry it's in CoffeeScript): https://github.com/bentruyman/bentruyman.com/blob/master/sou...
So make it much more obvious where to download your CV.
Of course, if you just want the karma points, then it's all good.
The secret of getting hired by good companies is to get noticed. You get noticed by standing out. Otherwise you're competing against hundreds or even thousands of other people with conventional resumes, that have more experience or went to better universities than you did or are just cheaper.
If the non-techie who's sifting through resumes can't deduce in a few seconds whether or not you're even qualified and applicable for the job at hand, the resume is going to get trashed, regardless of whichever gimmicks you pull.
Another rule of getting hired successfully is being recommended by developers to their managers. Those are the people that you want to sell yourself to, because those are the people that can make a good estimate of how much you're worth. Not some clueless HR person that needs calls to action to notice something.
Oh, and personally I give bad grades to people that place things like buzzwords or certifications on their resume, being the exact opposite of what an HR person looks for. Just saying - be careful about your target audience.
I can only speak for myself obviously, but at my work, all resumes are funneled through our recruiter. Sure, we can forward resumes to her as-needed, but it's in her job description to go out and find qualified candidates. She attends job fairs, she posts to Craigslist, etc.
She is also completely non-technical -- she's the recruiter for the entire company, which includes every role imaginable in a mid-sized company: finance, HR, etc.
There's a very high chance that if you sent her the OP's website, his resume would never even make it to my desk, whether or not he was actually qualified. Sure, if I ever received the resume and then ended up on his site, I'd be impressed, but I have to get there first. But why would you want to essentially disqualify yourself before even getting to the one responsible for hiring?
Otherwise, very cool! Assuming you're going to put a little bit more into there. Maybe a command to send you an email or something would be neat (and fun to abuse).
I tear it down and rewrite it about twice a year. Each iteration has been simpler and simpler. In time, it should just say my name in 60pt Helvetica.
Also, let us know how Flatiron School goes! Seems like a great opportunity.
I'm not an out and out coder so i bought a template and then modified it: http://krmmalik.com/me
My site has been a terminal for a while. I keep meaning to add new commands, but for now I'm just collecting stats on what people type :)
Definitely throw in some more details about your work history and what not - Add more commands! Just having a LinkedIn button on the bottom isn't quite enough in my opinion.
Great job!
Error: useless setTimeout call (missing quotes around
argument?) @ http://tjbiddle.info/static/js/resume-
main.js:76Oh speaking of zoom, ctrl-minus doesn't work for me. If it's possible to fix that, you might want to. For now I feel glad I already added a zoom slider to my browser's toolbar.
That's not deter him in anyway though. I just hope he does well out of it.
Wishing you all the best.
Dunno why, but typing commands to get info, or even pages, was very entertaining. Im sure there are a million reasons not to interface a web site like this, but I find myself wanting sites like HN to have a command line interface.
Simple idea, but great fun.
Just, please more. In fact, can some one do some sort of add on to do this with other sites?
And thank you. That is the first time I've felt some excitement using a web site.
It does work on my Android phone.
Other than that, I like it. I've always wanted to do something similar.
Nice work!
I'd suggest DejaVu Sans Mono - the only monospaced font I've ever seen that has such visible distinctions between 1li, 00o, [{(, )}], and %#.
You probably know a very good friend of mine....he is originally from Jamaica and played Soccer for Emory too. Not too sure if I want to call out his name on this public forum.
Either way...this site looks nice. Very clever REPL - especially for someone that just started coding. You are off to a good start!
EDIT: Watch it closely and you'll see the bug.
EDIT2: Okay, not really the bug, but @op: how about changing setInterval to 864ms? It really looks nicer ;)
Tiny suggestion: would prefer a fixed terminal font (courier, consolas, whatever) rather than a Times Roman-ish serif font. Think it would look better and more authentic.
Anyways besides that it is awesome.
It's actually quite clever, creative and cool.