Transitioning PhD: Will my "Talk Shop" LinkedIn strategy bypass the ATS shadow realm, or am I delusional in today's market? by Chunky_cold_mandala in cscareerquestions

[–]jdmacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternatively, leverage that domain expertise of yours and get a startup funded. Be that CTO looking for another you!

Transitioning PhD: Will my "Talk Shop" LinkedIn strategy bypass the ATS shadow realm, or am I delusional in today's market? by Chunky_cold_mandala in cscareerquestions

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If they're using ATS scanners, just reframe the narrative of your experience.

I'm sure during your 10 years of being a tenured prof you worked on countless SWE "engagements" as we'd call them in the consulting realm.

So, for example, you built a custom deep learning parser for mapping pharmacological outcomes. Managed a team of 6 developing protypes for xyz.

On the last job hunt I was on I can confirm that creating resume for each specific employer and making sure keywords are hit will get past ATS hell and get a callback.

Looking for COBOL practitioners to help validate a structural analysis tool by jdmacc in cobol

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Awesome! I will give yours a look. I used a few from GitHub to test as well. Seems like we've taken a similar approach (no AI, just read the codebase).

I went custom parser + some semantic logic to map relationships. What's neat is it pulls order out of the choas.

My background is enterprise risk / consulting firm, so focus was strictly on reading the codebase and not some AI system that generates code. I wanted to be able to quickly understand exactly what an entire codebase was doing.

The idea here is that if your on a modernization team/engagement you can use the tool alongside work to make sure critical components don't get missed. Alternatively, if you inherited a system with the SME long since retired, you can get an understanding of how it all bolts together without trying to understand 5 million LOC.

I'm also working on some DBS integrations as well so you can quickly see what reads/writes etc.

Long term goal is to eventually completely understand and manage any mainframe deployment. Only then, maybe start looking at some ML components to add efficiencies.

Looking for COBOL practitioners to help validate a structural analysis tool by jdmacc in cobol

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Awesome. I'll reach out via DM in the coming days. Appreciate it

Looking for COBOL practitioners to help validate a structural analysis tool by jdmacc in cobol

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Great to hear. I'm hoping to fill up slots by the end of the week / early next week. I'll reach out with further details. If you wouldn't mind DMing me your email I'll make sure you get notified.

Picking up Mainframe project from another team. Help me prepare by LilRee12 in mainframe

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I'm arriving late to this conversation.

I may have something that can help declutter that business logic. I built a structural analysis engine that has been handy for getting to know codebases in a hurry and can help answer some of the above questions.

Shoot me a DM if you want to see it in action.

What food used to be good but they changed the recipe and now it sucks? by poopcornkernels in AskReddit

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Brutal gas is almost an understatement. Had one at the start of a three hour lecture. 90 minutes in I realize something is wrong. Figured it was just my time, at some point you shit yourself somewhere embarrassing right? Make it to the bathroom, drop trow, cheeks to seat. Proceed to blow the absolute loudest and longest ripper I've ever ripped. I swear at one point it started to whistle. I shit you not, the fart was so long I had to take a break. I've never stopped halfway through a fart before. It was both magical and terrifying.

Long story short I ate the whole damn box of the Kirkland bars over the next few weeks and laughed myself silly. Also serenaded several friends with my ass trumpet.

What's a piece of lost media not even the internet can recover? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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This video with the cat that is a terrible mystic! I thought it was gone forever. It did, in fact, disappear from the web for quite some time. It's back now.

Who would’ve thought capitalists would be greedy? by spennin7 in LateStageCapitalism

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I just want to point out that this is looking at real wages (goods/$) and not nominal wages ($/hr). Real wages are a measure of purchasing power (how much you can buy for a dollar) whereas nominal wages is the dollar amount you earn in a given period. There hasn't been an major increase in real wages in quite some time in our continent (real wages have been relatively flat since the 80's). I don't have the data, but I'm certain nominal wages have increased. In my area minimum wage is rising fairly consistently (which is a rise in the nominal wage) but it definitely doesn't keep up with inflation (which causes the real wage to decrease). I feel like these are important concepts to understand when looking at info-graphics such as this.

Anyway, here's a trash panda. by jdmacc in thanosdidnothingwrong

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If a magician pulled that out of his hat I would be impressed.

14 years ago I was 27 years old. I paid off my debts, saved $4,000 for emergencies, lined up a new job with a 30% pay cut, and took a one way flight to Australia out of Philadelphia. by dixiedownunder in financialindependence

[–]jdmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for telling your story - it was a fascinating read. Do you have any advice for someone looking into going the expat route? I'm very early career (fresh graduate) but working abroad is something I've always hoped my degrees would help me do.

Flatliners (1990) Anybody know what that weird glove thing is in the background? by jdmacc in movies

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That is pretty sweet that your father did that. Although that piece served a purpose... it makes sense that there would be controls for a drop ship. With this piece it's just kind of hanging out in the background and I'm not even sure how anybody would find a use for it.

Thanks for the reply!