From: "Carlo E. Prelz" Date: 2012-12-17T17:37:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Wondering About Flatiron School Subject: Re: Wondering About Flatiron School Date: Sun 16 Dec 12 11:47:23PM +0900 Quoting Peter Hickman (peterhickman386@googlemail.com): > It is my experience that much of the technology that I have learnt > over the years is, of itself, completely useless (and as a > consequence does not appear on my CV). I have used languages and > operating systems that are almost extinct so they are not marketable > skills. The real skills (the ones that are not tied to a language or > platform) accumulate very slowly. You are very right. Nevertheless, you seldom find those slowly accumulating skills mentioned in job requirements. I see a clear tendency at giving a predominant rank to the current buzzword in whatever IT faculties have recently established as "best practice." It boils down to the wisdom of the person who is called to evaluate candidates. Difficult job... Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@fluido.as che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)