curriculum-bootloader
Learning and science
polyglot file hack
SHOW HN2019
255points
50comments
#133of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
9 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Execution: 0 for, 8 againstIdea: 5 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 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
Impressive, novel polyglot idea
From 4 comments
This is one of the coolest thing I've seen, ever.
zachlatta on HNThat's impressive. Nicely done.
swiftcoder on HNthis is impressive. Despite other comments going against the intelligence of recruiters, I got no doubt everyone (even without tech background) will get the point of why this is…
DyslexicAtheist on HNI'm not a recruiter, but I am a hiring manager and I'm impressed. I'm not going to go through the assembly with a fine-grained comb, but I don't need to. The existence of the…
cldellow on HN
Shows real technical depth to hiring managers
From 1 comment
I'm not a recruiter, but I am a hiring manager and I'm impressed. I'm not going to go through the assembly with a fine-grained comb, but I don't need to. The existence of the…
cldellow on HN
Objections
CV PDF fails to open in many readers (GitHub, Firefox PDF.js, Acrobat, mupdf, iOS Safari)
From 5 comments
Interestingly, GitHub refuses to display the PDF, saying that it's invalid: https://github.com/pjimenezmateo/curriculum-bootloader/blob/master/cv.pdf
saagarjha on HNdoesnt work for mupdf either
jacoblambda on HNI get "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." when trying to open with Adobe Reader.
burroisolator on HNDoesn’t work in iOS safari.
oneeyedpigeon on HNDoesn't work in Adobe Acrobat, so in context of providing it to recuiters, I'd say your effort is futile.
dzidol on HN
Recruiters may not understand or value the bootloader
From 2 comments
Awesome project. > a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters But do recruiters actually understand what a bootloader is or why this is such a feat? Do you…
azhenley on HN> a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters Recruiters don't have time to go through the process just to see your CV. You won't impress them.
tspace on HN
Bootloader in a CV is risky to run and looks like malware
From 2 comments
This is really cool, but if I may make a suggestion: Not everyone actually wants to run the bootloader, and technical hiring managers certainly won't. Include a video taken with…
walrus01 on HNSurely this offends some virus scanners.
shereadsthenews on HN
Requests
Fix PDF compatibility with common viewers
From 2 comments
Congrats on a cool project. As a hiring manager for embedded software engineers, I have a couple of thoughts that maybe helpful. I come at it from an american perspective, and I…
as-j on HNI don't mean to ruin it for gef3233 here, but seeing that it's missing the magic header required for PDFs, I'd be surprised if there are PDF viewers that would try to interpret…
jolmg on HN
Add a video or screenshot of the bootloader running in QEMU
From 2 comments
This is really cool, but if I may make a suggestion: Not everyone actually wants to run the bootloader, and technical hiring managers certainly won't. Include a video taken with…
walrus01 on HNQuick tip - screenshot is good, but add a video of the bootloader in action, it will get you more shares from the visual crowd.
styts on HN
Add Windows instructions and safety warnings for dd
From 2 comments
Very nice! Two things: You're assuming the user has dd available. You might want to include instructions for something like Rufus if they're on Windows. Even if they have dd, you…
rl3 on HNThis is very cool! I have one suggestion with your readme. For someone who has used dd and is familiar with what needs to be done to check and change the value of /dev/sdX in…
natch on HN
Shorten the CV and add a summary
From 1 comment
Congrats on a cool project. As a hiring manager for embedded software engineers, I have a couple of thoughts that maybe helpful. I come at it from an american perspective, and I…
as-j on HN
Questions
Does a recruiter actually understand or run it?
From 1 comment
Awesome project. > a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters But do recruiters actually understand what a bootloader is or why this is such a feat? Do you…
azhenley on HN
Would the boot sector break PDF parsers?
From 2 comments
I don't mean to ruin it for gef3233 here, but seeing that it's missing the magic header required for PDFs, I'd be surprised if there are PDF viewers that would try to interpret…
jolmg on HNSo what happens if you try to execute "%PDF-1.<number-between-0-and-7>\n%<4-bytes-above-128>\n" as x86 real-mode machine code anyway? Can't this be modified to simply undo…
jolmg on HN
Alternatives named
Polyglot files like PoC||GTFO PDFs
From 1 comment
this is impressive. Despite other comments going against the intelligence of recruiters, I got no doubt everyone (even without tech background) will get the point of why this is…
DyslexicAtheist on HN
Bootable CD retro game in a tweet
From 1 comment
Nice! You might enjoy my bootloader + retro game which fits in a tweet: https://www.quaxio.com/bootable_cd_retro_game_tweet/ It might also help you figure out how to put the pdf…
amenghra on HN