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SHOW HN2012
58points
74comments
#398of 1,677 in 2012
Top 24%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Design: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks nice and clean
From 2 comments
Looks nice. +1 for only one page :) 2 things: * the bullets, are they necessary? * same for the grey backgrounds * it seems not to be lining up on the right.. intentional?
cies on HNLooks amazing! I'm forking it right now :)
home010 on HN
Microtypography suggestion was useful
From 2 comments
What about the use of microtypography? I think that you'd get optically cleaner margins (on the right) by using the microtype package. \usepackage{microtype} just works, though…
rmk2 on HNOne of the most impressive things about the package really is that it "just works". And especially protrusion is wonderful in my opinion, since it really makes nicer margins.…
rmk2 on HN
Objections
Too much text and too many buzzwords
From 2 comments
Looks good. Way too much text though, and too many buzzwords.
p_sherman on HNWhy do you put a summary on your résumé as opposed to having it in a separate cover letter? Have you gotten better responses after putting that summary there? I ask because I've…
pilgrim689 on HN
Layout looks too compressed
From 1 comment
They do—yours looks unreadably compressed to me.
ionfish on HN
Requests
Remove bullets and grey backgrounds
From 1 comment
Looks nice. +1 for only one page :) 2 things: * the bullets, are they necessary? * same for the grey backgrounds * it seems not to be lining up on the right.. intentional?
cies on HN
Questions
Why use a non-default font
From 1 comment
It looks very nice, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would go to the trouble of TeXing up a document and choose to use anything other than the standard Computer Modern…
davidmr on HN
Why a summary on the resume
From 1 comment
Why do you put a summary on your résumé as opposed to having it in a separate cover letter? Have you gotten better responses after putting that summary there? I ask because I've…
pilgrim689 on HN
Alternatives named
CVtex
From 1 comment
Dario Taraborelli's 'Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX' is also a good resource (works just fine for a normal CV as well): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
njs12345 on HN
CurVe LaTeX class
From 1 comment
I like the CurVe latex class. It works for me: http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf It is worth going to the author's page about CurVe rather than relying on the ctan package.…
ahcox on HN
moderncv
From 1 comment
I'm personally a fan of the moderncv package: http://ctan.org/pkg/moderncv It uses lots of whitespace, which I believe adds to the readability. Some examples can be found here:…
bleusink on HN
docutils reStructuredText
From 1 comment
Have you looked at docutils? A few years ago I rewrote my résumé in reStructuredText where you can use rst2html.py, rst2latex.py, etc. to generate various formats from one text…
makecheck on HN