Interactive Résumé of Robby Leonardi | Hacker News Reader

Interactive Résumé of Robby Leonardi

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32 pointsBanzai1021 comments

It's a fun and cute resume, but delving in to the code you see things like;

  function blinkRobbyEyes()
  {
	if (layersMovement != "not moving 2")
	{
		$(robbyEyesCloseDiv).fadeTo(0,1);
		$(robbyEyesCloseDiv).stop().delay(300).animate({opacity: 0}, 0, function() {});
	}
  }

"if (layersMovement != "not moving 2")" is a boolean that should be passed as a parameter if you're ever going to write a working unit test against that function. Consequently, it shows a pretty poor knowledge of "making nice looking and maintainable HTML5 scrolly animations" in any sort of a real-life environment. Many people can make fancy webpages; someone with "the best resume ever" would be able to make fancy webpages with code that's relatively well abstracted in to testable, reusable functions.

Maybe someone with "best resume ever" has a better understanding what and when if worth testing and not yet embraced cargo-cult testing? I'd be more worried about the massive pollution of the global namespace. That said I am not a fan of such resumes. They do show skill, but they usually don't show the ability to choose the right tool for the job.

He does only give himself three lobsters for jQuery

Yeah, that's what I thought.

The animation are fun, but having reviewed main.js and style.css, he can't reasonably pretend he's a "master" in css/javascript.

Please write/amend some ECMA/CSS specs or hack rendering engines first to pretend to be so.

I've always found this interesting. If you're a developer, it should be your number one priority to make sure the code you write for your own site be top notch. God knows how much we all complain about other people's code, you should know however cool it is, developers are going to crack the hood and see how good the code is.

Great idea and quite original. I still give him rube cred for having such a nice concept despite the flaws in his code.

You know, you just gave me an idea: not to have top quality code on personal web site, but have a comment instead "I can explain what's wrong with this code or any other you will show me and how to fix it". I think that gives opportunity for much more interesting discussion :)

Agreed that the code is not very good, the idea of the animated resume was great, despite some technical issues it may have.

My first impression would be that he is a very creative professional with good designing skills. Regarding the programming I totally agree that it have a lot of flaws and lack of basic testing capabilities.

He's a graphic designer first and foremost, not a programmer. His website seems like the product of a very ambitious person.

No, it's really not. It's tacky and takes too long to get all of the relevant details...and they're not even all in one place. Everything a resume should do, this does not. This being included in a sampling of workpieces is a different story.

Not to mention it's a repost.

We know this isn't designed to convey work experience, skillset in an efficient and clear way, it's just attention-grabbing hit bait so he can make some claim of "going viral" on his real CV.

Wow, best?! EVER?!

Where can I find this list of unchanging objective criteria for how good a resumé is, so that I can apply them to my clearly inadequate CV?

I saw "Loading..." and left after 3 seconds.

I am not sure this is the 'best', as a hiring manager in my work life, I won't be too impressed if this is the only piece of information delivered to me. It is a useful piece of reference nonetheless, but definitely cannot replace a regular normal resume.

I think this is creative and shows some serious design skills. I am looking to hire a designer and this got my attention, so I'm reaching out.

So I'd say it works as a resume.

Cutest? Sure.

Creative? Absolutely.

Best? No.

I think this would work well as a supplementary portfolio but you still need a more to-the-point condensation of relevant information.

For resumes I'd define best as "highest converting". If this is the best it'd be great to see some data.

Very cool and creative. People need to stop getting butthurt on this site.

Charming, but blinding after a rather short time.

this was submitted & discussed already a couple of weeks ago. TL;DR nice showcase, no interactivity

Repost, really? Are we reddit now?

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PLEASE TURN ON YOUR JAVASCRIPT

Was that all he wanted to say?

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