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This is exactly what I was aiming to, I don't expect the recruiter to go through the process but at least I can easily show some technical background.",{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Technical recruiters and hiring managers",[60,64],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"19344475","azhenley","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…",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"value":66,"source":49,"evidence":67},"Learning and proving ability to build a bootloader, and impressing recruiters",[68,71],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"19344616","Thanks, that is amazing feedback! I am looking into the issue of the PDF not loading in github, probably I just have to put the magic numbers sooner. You are also right on the…",{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[73,81],{"value":26,"source":74,"evidence":75},"inferred",[76,80],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"19344573","as-j","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…",{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},{"value":82,"source":74,"evidence":83},"PDF",[84],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"19346977","jolmg","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…","open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":92,"objections":117,"requests":160,"questions":189,"alternatives":201},[93,113],{"value":94,"source":95,"evidence":96},"Impressive, novel polyglot idea","commenter",[97,101,105,109],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"19344924","zachlatta","This is one of the coolest thing I've seen, ever.",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"19344358","swiftcoder","That's impressive. Nicely done.",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"19344686","DyslexicAtheist","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…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"19344574","cldellow","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. 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The file is damaged and could not be repaired.\" when trying to open with Adobe Reader.",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"19345299","oneeyedpigeon","Doesn’t work in iOS safari.",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"19346198","dzidol","Doesn't work in Adobe Acrobat, so in context of providing it to recuiters, I'd say your effort is futile.",{"value":142,"source":95,"evidence":143},"Recruiters may not understand or value the bootloader",[144,145],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"19344548","tspace","> 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.",{"value":150,"source":95,"evidence":151},"Bootloader in a CV is risky to run and looks like malware",[152,156],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"19345598","walrus01","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. 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