A great job-hunting trick for programmers! A talented programmer writes his resume in C language

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This is a resume that is also a readable and compilable C source file. Because of Hacker News, the content of this resume is not much different from my actual resume. This is not a serious document, just to tease people who talk about recruitment and the resume format they accept. It also has some relative representation of my programming style.

Because it's just a thing on Hacker News and reddit...

No, my real resume doesn't look like this. A friend of mine joked that I looked like someone who would make one, so I made one. My actual resume is written in BSD mandoc.

I use a lot of _t in my types, and I apologize for that. I did that for a long time. "System reserved words? I am the system."

Because people kept complaining, I fixed the non-const char string allocation.

The type names I used, however, were entirely intentional.

If you're using an older compiler, you may have problems compiling anonymous units and designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra curly braces to make them work together properly. Newer compilers should have no problems. Clang and gcc (since 4.4) support these features by default.

Due to some friends' advice, I stopped building struct tms and used timestamps instead.

***I have to remind you again that this is just a joke.

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <time.h> 
   
 typedef struct {
 union {
 const   char *company;
 const   char *school;
 const   char * project;
 };
 union {
 const   char * location;
 const   char * url;
 };
 union {
 const   char * title;
 const   char * program;
 }; 
   
 time_t started;
 time_t left; 
   
 const   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 */  
 const   char * name = "Kevin R. Lange" ;
 const   char * email = "[email protected]" ;
 const   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 "
 "Intensive language course "
 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; 
   
    printf( "%s at %s - %s\n" , thing->title, thing->company, thing->location); 
   
    ti = localtime(&thing->started);
    strftime(started, sizeof(started), "%B %d, %Y" , ti); 
   
 if (thing->left == CURRENT) {
        printf( "%s to now\n" , started);
 } else {
        ti = localtime(&thing->left);
        strftime(left, sizeof(left), "%B %d, %Y" , ti);
        printf( "%s to %s\n" , started, left);
 } 
   
 const   char ** desc;
 for (desc = thing->description; *desc; desc++) {
        printf( "- %s\n" , *desc);
 } 
   
 puts( "" );
 } 
   
 int main( int argc, char ** argv) { 
   
 school_t**s;
 job_t ** j;
 project_t ** p; 
   
    printf( "%s\n%s\n%s\n\n" , name, email, address); 
   
 puts( "Education\n" );
 for (s = schools; *s; s++) {
 print_thing(*s);
 } 
   
 puts( "Employment\n" );
 for (j = jobs; *j; j++) {
 print_thing(*j);
 } 
   
 puts( "Projects\n" );
 for (p = projects; *p; p++) {
 print_thing(*p);
 } 
   
 return   0 ;
 }</time.h></stdio.h>