From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2007-12-09T02:21:31+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby certification On 12/8/07, Giles Bowkett wrote: > > such a stupid thing will be created by greedy people willing to take > > of people's stupid push. > I think it's only fair to post insanely ungrammatical English if you > don't speak regular English. I challenge you to show that the sentence is ungrammatical, except for possibly missing a word ("advantage") that seems to have been zapped in editing. Seriously. The point is that there are people—and it doesn't matter whether they're employers or potential employees—who are making a stupid request. Greedy people will happily fulfill that request. What I can say is that I won't be hiring anyone who says that they have a certification in Ruby, because it says that they've bought into an idea that doesn't have a purpose or place. IMO. (Hint: it's nearly impossible to write an ungrammatical sentence in English. It's possible to write sentences that are hard to parse, but English is amazingly flexible. Otherwise, masterpieces like Jabberwocky wouldn't be remotely possible.) -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca