davelnewton

Meh. Sweeping generalizations almost never hold up.

The kids in my robotics class aren't ready to deal with another layer of knowledge development to get a robot to bounce off walls while sweeping the floor: visual programming is perfectly suited to that (and a few other problems).

Yes. Works now, even. Without context it's impossible to know what you're asking.

Except for the obvious image copy without attribution, it doesn't seem to be. At first blush it looks to be a specific application of the previous paper's technique(s).

Why?

Are you a robot?

How would I know if it wasn't working? Try stack overflow--but ask a more-complete question. I have no clue what it's supposed to look like because I'm not magic.

If you are able to do your own work, and there's nothing else to do, I don't see a problem with it. Your conditions of employment, however, may state otherwise--many do, e.g., anything you develop while at work (or even on work hardware) becomes IP of the company. You'd want to check that, and take appropriate care.

I don't see how entitlement comes into play. Petulance, maybe.

I am wary when customers refuse to listen to experience. Generally what I do is just create two UXes and do preference-testing, either internally, at the clients, or both.

Just say what you said in italics minus the ass. Simple as that. Firing a client because they don't want what you want... that's certainly an approach. Same one my eight-year old tries. shrug

Regarding fonts/blues: impossible to know because no clue what it looks like. In some situations clear font differentiation is critical. In some situations, med devices need to look similar to existing devices to maintain familiarity. In some situations, it might look like ass, but be more functional than a pretty version.

Is that the case here? No way to tell.

Shouldn't be an issue.

You can't make personal attacks on a resume, you can make personal attacks on... a person.

I didn't see anything in this entire thread that was a personal attack. I saw attacks on your idea, because it's deceitful, and I saw criticisms of your resume, which AFAIC, seems pretty valid under the circumstances.

If I write a fake resume generator, it'll be on Github for all to peruse and improve upon--don't know why people wouldn't want to "show their work". It's not like it's going to get a lot of people hired, and even if it did, it'll be rare that they're kept in their position for long.

Well... not so sure about that; I think I could probably spin out a reasonable resume bot. I gave the idea some thought; I think the hardest part would be a reasonable-looking work history (which of course would crumble almost immediately), but I suspect it's easier than I think it is.

I may have to take a run at it just for giggles.

The armed drone approach to resumes.

I have a minor disagreement with the "Objective" section. I use mine as a (relatively) succinct window into my personality, goals, and ambitions: mine is a bit silly, but honest, and informative. If they don't like what I say in my objective, they will not want to hire me, and I wouldn't want to work there.

I use mine as both information, and a "gatekeeper" of sorts, and I believe it's saved everyone involved a fair amount of time in the long run. If they like it, and my skills or aptitude match what they're looking for, it's probably a good fit on multiple levels.

That said: it's a minor disagreement. For most people it probably isn't quite as functional--but I'm a unique snowflake ;)

I (more or less) tend to operate, despite my cynical nature, that everyone's nice until proven otherwise. I genuinely enjoy helping people and providing feedback/mentoring/etc. My brevity is often taken for callousness, but that I spend the time at all is generally enough to offset concision--I do actually have stuff to do ;)

shrug It takes all kinds and all that :) But thanks, appreciate the appreciation. His knee-jerk reaction was just that, and while annoying, ultimately inconsequential.

Ironically, that I would ignore anything war-like was parroted back to me as a bad thing in one of the OP's emails--he was offended because I used "profanity" (the word was "shitty") and he left in a huff after I spent the time to deal with both his post here, and his unsolicited emails asking for advice, with three resume versions to read, and asking how to get a job where I worked.

Some people... shrug wth.

I did. Yes. Yes (or no, last question is worded oddly).

The post you link to in your post also says real-time ray tracing. The MarketWatch article says "ray tracing" at one point, then talks about historical ray tracing performance, so they're not saying it's new either, they're just not a tech site, and it shows.

Because your bot is a liar. Manipulating your resume to be more appealing is valid, because it's not a liar.

Shifting keywords, re-ordering sections, highlighting specific experience: totally, 100% valid, and if you can automate that, a potential product (it's similar to stuff I banged on years and years ago). It's what people should be doing to their resume anyway.

Companies don't use AI against candidates, they use AI to try to weed through the tens, hundreds, or thousands of resumes they have to shuffle through to find maybe one or two standouts.

You wouldn't be using AI against a company, you'd be using it because (in your view) it's in your, and the company's, best interests to hire you. Guess what: lying and bullshitting to get a foot in the door does not demonstrate that, and only very rarely will it be positively received by the people you lied to.

If you're waiting for a "Ya' gotta lotta moxie, kid, yeeeaaaarrrrhh" you'll probably be waiting a long time.

Your very premise is fraudulent: "You wanted to talk to this bullshit person some software invented, you will talk to me instead."

No, no I won't.

The bot created the resume under your direction: you're not presenting the resume as a science project or submitting it to a Turing Test, you're submitting it to an HR person, or hiring manager, as a potential candidate, and wasting their time. It's just rude.

I have responded to your email, although it's borderline creepy, and telling someone you've internet-stalked them is probably not the best approach.

It doesn't bother me if you sound, or are, defensive--people are naturally invested in their work, their image, their "self". Won't change my opinion(s), it takes two people to have a flame war, and I'd ignore anything war-like because I have actual stuff to do.

Based on another comment you made, I looked at your resume, here are my thoughts:

* Skip the crammed-together logo crap and links on the left.

* More whitepace, it's hard to read.

* Don't jam the position/company/location/dates all on one line.

* It's impossible to figure out what you (think you) know without reading everything: without a summary section you likely won't get past many automated or human systems.

* Even after reading your experience I have almost zero clue what languages and environments you know, have familiarity with, prefer, or enjoy.

* Stop with all the freakin' icons, flags, and pictures.

* References on request.

* Elide all/most of the "Personal Interests"

* Nobody cares about your iBooks in 2005

* I would keep the language, education sections; academic awards, meh; as a hirer, I don't care.

* Add a better summary section.

* Add usable, relevant info to the job history (e.g. "I wrote this", BFD: what did you use to write it?) or add an overall technology section, and don't lie, because if whoever is interviewing you is anything like you, I will ask about the weirdest shit you put on your resume.

Bottom line: lots of wasted space, way too light on actionable data. No clue what you actually know, what you want to do, how any of your experience is relevant to what I'm hiring for.

Tangential: For better or worse, your religious views will raise certain feelings in certain people. And if your life was predetermined, then this is all what's supposed to happen anyway, right? So why complain? Just sayin'.

I would be neither impressed nor offended, I would be irritated.

It takes hours or days of clock time to find candidates to bother phone screening, let alone bring in for a face-to-face. Someone comes in that I'm not expecting to talk to... you'll meet the door with some velocity.

(And anybody that wants you to come in for a face-to-face before a phone screen... they deserve whatever they get, because that's dumb unless they're across the street and bring you lunch.)

If you can't figure out what to put on a resume how will you solve an actual problem?!

... which you're using to get an interview:

> If my bots could get an interview, I would then attend and reveal my true identity.

So you'd be hijacking the interview of your fictitious persona. I'm not even sure which is worse, but IMO it's a dick move, and I'd show you the door before anything of value was discussed.

Although any place that's doing in-person interviews w/o a phone-call sanity check, and maybe more, isn't a place I'd want to work anyway, because that's un-sustainable.

Why not just look at all the other places that have already brought this up and adopt one of those?

Who claimed ray tracing is new? Haven't heard anybody say that at all.

TL;DR: Relax your body in order then picture something relaxing.

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I mean, okay, Julia is cool, but why post this? We know already.

"Space tourism", for now, means "putting people into LEO for an orbit or two" or just "getting out of the atmosphere". That's significantly easier than putting someone on the moon and returning them home alive.

Would a moon cafe be easier than sending someone to Mars and back? I mean, that's pretty freakin' obvious, isn't it?!

Why isn't there such a thing? Because it's still hard, expensive, and dangerous. It's not clear to me why this isn't obvious.

Those are very different things; on the client side I wouldn't write my own considering how many are already out there, and they're battle-tested and good. On the back end I'd caution against making a premature choice based on what you think will happen: there are many options, most of which will handle most of what people write. Only real advice is to go for something that scales horizontally.

I'm still undecided. I'm pretty tied to the Apple ecosystem at this point, for better or worse, so jumping back to Linux is a tough sell right now. I already have a touchbar MBP, so for me it'd be solely about the extra RAM (which I really need) and speed bump (which is nice, but of lesser concern). I haven't had the keyboard issues yet, but have some concerns.

I probably will end up getting one but not immediately--that said, it's highly likely I'll get a dedicated Linux laptop as well and start looking into tool replacement and integration options in case it ends up going that direction.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "game engine" here.