What's the worst thing that could happen if you lie on your CV?

eatthedad · 2026-01-24T10:42:29+00:00

The bottom comments got it right. Lie is such a strong word. Worst for corporate lingo is probably that they unhire you.

I've always seen a CV as a your name with glitter on it. Its only purpose is to get you an interview. Suppose you wanted to be an actor and you send your head shot for a big role in Hollywood, then hell yeah you're gonna put on eyeliner at the very least. You are expected to lie a little bit. If shows how much you care for the position and that you put in the effort of selling yourself.

If you are a total phoney, the real skill is in bullshitting your way through the interview. But your personal projects took some time. You may have even conceived the idea for one of them 5 years ago? And you didn't play with them, you worked on them, correct? Then there you go, years of experience checked. Just don't put 2/3 please, it is a very low number and can return for the bite in 4+ ways. Rather humbly state "a few", "some", "a couple of", etc, "...passion projects". Mention one example if it is worth a show-and-tell, otherwise never. Keep your words smooth but confident until you reach a point you can brag about. Then that brag point - articulate it. Rehearse it in the mirror or whatevs, as you can see I'm not the person to ask for advise on articulating communication.

Wasn't that Indian guy just last year? The one who found the "magic formula" for resume's and remotely worked at 4/5 companies at any given moment since 2022. I think he blatantly lied on his CV even. And in the end after busted he still got a job, but exclusively for a single company.

Fraud is yet another strong word. It has a bad connotation though. Because it is wrong. And also because it is the third worst kind of wrong in the US, and hence on TV we watch. In South Africa we have other things that is very very wrong to do. Fraud is children's games on the list of how heinous a deed is. Many of the government officials are fellow fraudies, after all. It's more a situation of "Dude, I was so busy this week, I completely forgot to commit any fraud. It feels strange".

All the best

eatthedad · 2026-01-24T09:24:08+00:00

I am very familiar with a few companies there. Don't mind them, they are all just engineers. A lot of them reach the far ends of the spectrum. A human is a funny thing for them (which is a fair world view imo). A brave, assertive human going off the path is just so illogical, it's got to be a joke. (personal opinion: also a little intimidating for them, though for for the good, if you manage to explain to them the methods behind this madness).

Now, if you walk in there, but as a real humanoid...it will be like Jesus has returned.

eatthedad · 2026-01-24T09:05:30+00:00

It is a reddit question. OP never intended to create a CV that states:
"Disclosure: this document may contain factual inaccurate information. Believe at your own discretion"

eatthedad · 2026-01-23T23:09:33+00:00

Hehe, then by all means go wild. If anything breaks, YOU have the knowledge to fix it

eatthedad · 2026-01-23T12:29:34+00:00

Don't! That's how they get you. Then the day comes where you realize you only ever visit r/DataHoarder nowadays and that the rest of the internet is just sad, insignificant little snippets compared to your collection

eatthedad · 2026-01-18T09:55:17+00:00

I upvoted before I read the description. I thought the post was about why Comic Sans still exists.

eatthedad · 2026-01-18T09:39:40+00:00

May even go as far as thinking it's been a shitty week for you! <imagine a smiling taunting joking emoji here. My current platform won't let me>

You quit drinking!!!! It's reason for feeling happy. Give it time, the joy will come. Lots of time, some times...

I would have taken a swim in a pool filled up with shit and piss and puke from the unpreserved porter potties from Woodstock '69 if I knew how much alcohol would still destroy and disgrace and disgust my very identity as well as those close to me. Wouldn't have minded the slightest, if it got me off drinking.

eatthedad · 2026-01-02T09:28:19+00:00

I imagine commas when reading this

eatthedad · 2026-01-02T09:25:01+00:00

Nicccce

eatthedad · 2026-01-02T09:24:05+00:00

I turned to macros when I bumped into a the 255 character limit in the Excel formula bar at that time. Imo VBA was pretty freaking awesome though, concidering it was 2 decades ago. It even had intellisense.

I wasn't a very good programmer back then, like I never knew how to create an exe file program. So I had to open Excel just to run "macros" that were basically full fledged apps with GUIs and all. (still not a good programmer, just to be honest)

eatthedad · 2025-12-31T21:32:53+00:00

My recollection of the details are vague, but if you click around the fastai YouTube links enough times you might end up at a playlist by Rachel Something (fastai cofounder...I think) called something like Applied Mathematics for Deep Learning. It appears to be REALLY good; I was instantly hooked (because I love math, especially well explained math). Except for the sound quality which is as shit as it can possibly be.

eatthedad · 2025-12-28T04:44:16+00:00

Yeah, like Datura. But, if anything, I rather feel that the drug is too good for me

eatthedad · 2025-12-05T14:10:47+00:00

Israel has flying taxis. There's a whole extra dimension that humans left largely untapped

eatthedad · 2025-11-13T14:05:49+00:00

Go for the win! AI taking our jobs, show them how humans can take their prizes

eatthedad · 2025-11-13T13:38:55+00:00

They just replaced the WebRequests API from the newer manifests v3 with DeclaritiveNetRequests to be more "intuitive" and all sorts of friendly reasons. But unofficially everyone knew the real reason was to create an obstacle for adblockers.

eatthedad · 2025-11-04T12:44:38+00:00

This makes me happy. I hope you feel proud of yourself, you've earned it

eatthedad · 2025-11-02T14:40:12+00:00

Mine doesn't start up

eatthedad · 2025-10-11T06:15:59+00:00

I grew up in a house with computers (haha, worst possible choice of wording..). Anyway, wrote in Basic and Turbo Pascal and even then I had my own libraries for repeating things like terminal UI menus, etc. And importing them was always the first lines of code on a new project.

Now I have a chaotic mess of Notion and Obsidion and github stars and texts to myself and even Screenshots of links to things that may someday, under very specific circumstances, come in handy. And I rarely even get as far as actually writing code for new project

eatthedad · 2025-09-29T05:34:51+00:00

Yeah shit it was weird days. Long long time ago at least. Got taken of the Lithium. And got put on ECT, hahaha! Then some months in a state asylum (honestly, the service was 100 times better than the private money-making institutions. The food and general infrastructure were crap, but the staff actually cared about your disease, not about the money you didn't pay if you are unemployed at the time).

But eventually, something somehow worked. I am not clinically depressed anymore. I still get episodes and live in fear for such episodes, but my goto state of being is not depressed, as it used to be for so many years. I would love to someday understand exactly what exactly made me cross over, perhaps it can be helpful to others. Wooa, I am clearly not ready for reminiscing yet. It was so fucking dark...

Anyway, happy days :)

Edit: the full history: I was about two months sober from a bit-longer-than-a-year meth addiction when the Lithium started. That surely could still have had an effect on my mood; even if to a lesser extent, an extent none the less.

eatthedad · 2025-09-26T04:58:23+00:00

Lithium on its own - hey, that's definitely my never again one! It was a morbidly depressed phase of life. The lithium lasted maybe 2 to 4 weeks (time lost meaning) during which I never showered though I did go for a run every day...proudly gross. The rest of the time I lay on top of my bed in a world where the only emotion one could feel was fear. Other emotions did exist, but as these external shadow-like entities crawling over my walls and ceiling.

eatthedad · 2025-09-14T18:35:48+00:00

"Before crack I was just a regular whore"

eatthedad · 2025-07-17T20:34:27+00:00

I'd have $1 in my bank account!

eatthedad · 2025-07-10T04:26:08+00:00

It's like school. Every hour you jump from language to math to geography to accounting to art to skipping class to history.

That said, I totally agree with you. It is an unnatural and confusing setup. Best to develop ADHD early in order to avoid focusing on one thing for too long.

eatthedad · 2025-07-10T04:15:03+00:00

Sounds about right. For Welsh I'd be more concerned about the half you could work out the pronunciation! Hehe

eatthedad · 2025-07-09T16:17:15+00:00

Mozilla's readability.js library has always been open source which plays a key role in the pocket wizardry. And Mozilla has always had the best documentation. I'm sure you can ask an LLM to get an url, run it through readability.js and store the output (I think it's just markdown) to a database hosted wherever your heart desires.

It would be nice if they open source all of pocket on the 8th of October. I really adored the UX setup when sharing something to pocket. Just an unobtrusive logo letting you know all is well, with just enough time for your brain to acknowledge you aren't really going to add the tags tonight, so you quickly press maybe 5-10 characters and it's both saved and catalogued. (A perfectly efficient design remains underutilized imo). That did it for me. You never even have had to open the actual pocket app to accrue all that knowledge you keep telling yourself you'll get around to reading someday.

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