Re: [OT] can anyone offer Lisp job?

Since your post is *very* long, I'm only skimming it and answering parts...

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: 
Because I don't currently have access to any such browser where I could
edit the HTML source and quickly see what it looks like so as to have a
reasonable development cycle. All I can do now is blindly use lynx to
set up something and wait for somebody to send e-mail or post an
abusive newsgroup article such as yours complaining about how ugly it
is but never telling me what to change to make it look better.

Ok, if you can't see the results, that's bad. Maybe you should try to find a book an CSS at the library and experiment a little with that. I don't know.

Please show me even one sample resume for a person unemployed the past
12 years, so I have any vague idea how to {resume} my personal situation.

Well, certainly being unemployed for so long doesn't make you any more attractive for an employer. But you might want to focus on a concise, one-page resume that states what you're good at. With that you might have more of a chance if you apply. If they invite you, that would be a good first step, even if they then ask about your recent employment history.

You might want to choose a functional resume that highlights your
skills and the benefits hiring you would give the employer, instead
of the "i did this in that in that year",



I already tried that in many different forms:
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.91C.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.942.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.921-LISP.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.92Mac.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/ResApp.92Mac.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.921-CAI.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.92Util.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.93Games.txt
  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.947-ISR.txt
  http://www.google.se/groups?selm=REM-2005jun15-007%40Yahoo.Com
Not one resume has gotten me a single interview after 1994.

Looking at two of them, that doesn't look too bad. But I think they're too long (nobody wants to read that much). If you send a resume to somebody, make it concise and emphasize the few central points, such that you're familiar with machine-level programming etc.


you didn't do anything for years. 


That's a fucking lie! I've done a shitload of things in recent years.
I hereby request you formally retract and apologize for your remark.

I don't want to look up the context now, but I'm sorry. I'm sure I didn't mean it that way. I guess I meant that you didn't do any computer work recently, as you say you're unemployed.

[complex website in lynx I think] 
Compare that to my WebPage that looks like this:

                 Index of Hello World! programs and beyond

   Table of contents:
     * The classic 'Hello World!' (always the same text output)
       txt t/h html php sh* perl python lisp awk c c++ java (many more)
     * One step beyond (non-static, output varies with time or IP number)
       sh* perl python lisp java
     * Two steps beyond (responsive, output depends on user input)
       html sh* awk lisp
     * Three steps beyond (proper decoding of HTML-form contents, so that
       program can be correctly responsive to user input)
       lisp
     * Four or more steps beyond (exploration of different types of data
       available in various programming languages, and how to perform
       common manipulations on such datatypes, contrasting how to do the
       same operation on equivalent data using different programming
       languages)

I like mine a lot better.

Or this of mine:
   Please identify yourself:
   ______________________________
   Password: _________________
   Login
Do you seen any unnecessary clutter or non-functionning garbage there?

I fully agree, but I care about simplicity. Most people don't, or only care about a nice graphic layout. I'm not talking about that, just that you might want to do some CSS to set some nicer fonts, maybe center some of the stuff, make it more readable, give it a small margin. This won't hurt Lynx rendering a bit.

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