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It's a résumé, as a readable and compilable C source file. Since Hacker News got here, this has been updated to be most of my actual résumé. This isn't a serious document, just a concept to annoy people who talk about recruiting and the formats they accept résumés in. It's also relatively representative of my coding style.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
typedef struct {
union {
char * company;
char * school;
char * project;
};
union {
char * location;
char * url;
};
union {
char * title;
char * program;
};
time_t started;
time_t left;
char * description[];
} thing_t;
typedef thing_t job_t;
typedef thing_t school_t;
typedef thing_t project_t;
#define CURRENT 0 /* I wasn't alive at the Unix epoch, so that'll work */
/* Contact Information */
char * name = "Kevin R. Lange";
char * email = "[email protected]";
char * address = "1045 Mission St, Apt 440\n"
"San Francisco, CA 94103";
/* Education */
school_t uiuc = {
.school = "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
.location = "Urbana, IL",
.program = "BS Computer Science",
.started = 1251158400,
.left = 1336608000,
.description = {
"Minor in International Studies in Engineering, Japan",
"Focused on systems software courses",
NULL
}
};
school_t hit = {
.school = "Hiroshima Institute of Technology",
.location = "Hiroshima, Japan",
.program = "Study Abroad",
.started = 1274745600,
.left = 1278288000,
.description = {
"Cultural exchange program",
NULL
}
};
school_t * schools[] = {
&uiuc,
&hit,
NULL
};
/* Projects */
project_t compiz = {
.project = "Compiz Window Manager",
.url = "http://compiz.org",
.title = "Developer",
.started = 1201392000,
.left = 1264291200,
.description = {
"Minor plugin contributor",
"Various research projects",
NULL
}
};
project_t toaruos = {
.project = "ToAruOS",
.url = "https://github.com/klange/toaruos",
.title = "Lead",
.started = 1295049600,
.left = CURRENT,
.description = {
"Hobby x86 Unix-like kernel and userspace",
"Advanced in-house GUI with compositing window manager",
NULL
}
};
project_t * projects[] = {
&toaruos,
&compiz,
NULL
};
/* Employment History */
job_t yelp = {
.company = "Yelp, Inc.",
.location = "San Francisco, CA",
.title = "Software Engineer, i18n",
.started = 1339977600,
.left = CURRENT,
.description = {
"Developed several internal tools and libraries",
"Provided critical input and design work for Yelp's launch in Japan",
NULL
}
};
job_t apple_internship = {
.company = "Apple Inc.",
.location = "Cupertino, CA",
.title = "Software Engineering Intern",
.started = 1306886400,
.left = 1314662400,
.description = {
"Built software framework for testing and verification of desktop retina display modes",
"Assisted other interns with Unix fundamentals",
NULL
}
};
job_t * jobs[] = {
&yelp,
&apple_internship,
NULL
};
void print_thing(thing_t * thing) {
char started[100];
char left[100];
struct tm * ti;
int i = 0;
printf("%s at %s - %s\n", thing->title, thing->company, thing->location);
ti = localtime(&thing->started);
strftime(started, 100, "%B %d, %Y", ti);
if (thing->left == CURRENT) {
printf("%s to now\n", started);
} else {
ti = localtime(&thing->left);
strftime(left, 100, "%B %d, %Y", ti);
printf("%s to %s\n", started, left);
}
char ** desc = thing->description;
while (*desc) {
printf("- %s\n", *desc);
desc++;
}
}
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n\n", name, email, address);
puts("Education\n");
school_t ** s = schools;
while (*s) {
print_thing(*s);
puts("");
s++;
}
puts("Employment\n");
job_t ** j = jobs;
while (*j) {
print_thing(*j);
puts("");
j++;
}
puts("Projects\n");
project_t ** p = projects;
while (*p) {
print_thing(*p);
puts("");
p++;
}
return 0;
}
@cyberis
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cyberis commented Mar 17, 2015

Very creative. Clean style. I'd probably hire you.

@gravitino
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@AndreasOM We don't take advice from Ruby programmers.

@napolux
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napolux commented Mar 17, 2015

Nice CV! 💫

@warmwaffles
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Love it

@enthouan
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Very funny.

It would be perfect if the global variables and the print_thing were static.

@Ham5ter
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Ham5ter commented Mar 17, 2015

I realy Like this Idea! 😃

@manvscode
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Beautiful! I would love to see a recruiter's face when given the source code. Unfortunately, you probably won't get a lot of offers since HR and staffing firms are the gate keepers. This is a problem all of us need to get behind and solve.

@pcreech
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pcreech commented Mar 17, 2015

Awesome.

@gabrielfalcao
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beautiful code

@lucabrunox
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Too serious... really. I expected some nice horizontal ruler, some ascii art... vote 3/10.

@helloweishi
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nice C

@overtrue
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👍

@smaquois123
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And all this time I've been sending out my resume in assembly.

@brainix
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brainix commented Mar 18, 2015

Code Golf / IOCCC it and force the recruiter to compile and run it to see what it says?

@gansidui
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niubility

@luke-carlson
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Pretty great project. I tried to replicate something similar in OCaml here

@youran1024
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wonderful~

@v5tech
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v5tech commented Mar 19, 2015

Cool~

@hoangddt
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Beauty!

@michals
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michals commented Mar 19, 2015

I wrote similar cv.c nine years ago when starting in Lucent-Technologies. HR person was bit confused but technical folks liked it.

@sillykelvin
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Nice job, but failed to compile(gcc resume.c), gcc version:

gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)

error:

resume.c:39: error: unknown field 'school' specified in initializer
resume.c:40: error: unknown field 'location' specified in initializer
resume.c:41: error: unknown field 'program' specified in initializer
resume.c:52: error: unknown field 'school' specified in initializer
resume.c:53: error: unknown field 'location' specified in initializer
resume.c:54: error: unknown field 'program' specified in initializer
resume.c:72: error: unknown field 'project' specified in initializer
resume.c:73: error: unknown field 'url' specified in initializer
resume.c:74: error: unknown field 'title' specified in initializer
resume.c:85: error: unknown field 'project' specified in initializer
resume.c:86: error: unknown field 'url' specified in initializer
resume.c:87: error: unknown field 'title' specified in initializer
resume.c:106: error: unknown field 'company' specified in initializer
resume.c:107: error: unknown field 'location' specified in initializer
resume.c:108: error: unknown field 'title' specified in initializer
resume.c:119: error: unknown field 'company' specified in initializer
resume.c:120: error: unknown field 'location' specified in initializer
resume.c:121: error: unknown field 'title' specified in initializer

I missed something?

@Anye
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Anye commented Mar 19, 2015

Thanks HR doesn't give up this wonderful resume.

@cplusProgrammer
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nice :)

@pravinkerai212
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mind blowing!!

@lichengwu
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good!

@luftreich
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nice !

@zabesangary
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Troll!

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ghost commented Jan 6, 2016

void print_thing(thing_t * thing) {
char started[100];
char left[100]
...
}

That stack looks gigantic. What if you make those arrays static?

Beautiful code btw. I'm curious about the puts("") at the end of print_thing though, what's it for?

@youthlin
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amazing.可怕。

@ssdr
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ssdr commented Feb 4, 2016

good idea!

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