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[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That is exponentially more complicated than changing a few words in a document, hitting print, and then clicking Print as PDF.

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I haven't changed jobs in quite some time, but back when I was applying, I wrote a Python script that would generate a PDF from a YAML file. Maintaining the YAML file was easier than maintaining a whole document.

edit: spelling.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This involves changing a few words in a few places. Like the name of the company and the job I'm going for. Again, that seems like it would be a lot more complicated.

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure, writing the script is more complicated than changing a few words in a document, but after the initial effort of writing the script I would argue that changing a few words in a YAML file is approximately the same amount of effort as changing a few words in a word document.

I wrote the script because I enjoy scripting, plus now I can change the format of the output if I want to (as I was doing at the time), plus I built versioning into the script so I can easily refer to older versions. Of course if none of that applies to you, maintaining a document is probably the way to go! (Edit: Though I can easily edit YAML with vim, which I find strongly preferable to Word or the more open alternatives.)

edit: stupid client posted half a comment initially.