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Tom Silver, senior vice president for North America at Dice Holdings Inc is quoted in the article: "Demand is growing for people who know specialized programmi

• mschy 17y ago
  Having spoke with the press, I give him a lot of latitude on that one. There are lots of explanations that come to my mind before I'd assume he's clueless.
  • patio11 17y ago
    Right. People don't realize it, but quotes are not "quotes", because most people do not naturally speak in flawlessly edited quotable soundbites. It probably sounded like: Interviewer: So what, uh, do you see as the big, you know, trends in the coming year? In the industry? Interviewee: Well, I think, you know, there's something of a t-trend towards specialization. Interviewer: You mean in programming lang-- Interviewee: Exactly. Languages, specialized techniques, you know, Rails, AJAX, all that jazz.
    • mschy 17y ago
      Exactly. And even when the person does manage to speak in a perfect soundbite, they're often talking to somebody who isn't an expert, and it might well get screwed up during transcription, writing or editing. The first time I talked to a reporter, the reporter swapped my descriptions of opportunities and threats, so I looked like I had absolutely no understanding of the market at all. After that, I started taking "quotes" with a much larger grain of salt.