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C#, Java, Rail -> Why all three, eaither is a substitute of other. MS-SQL, Oracle, Mysql -> Ditto above. My point being that if you list all of them you proba

by shabda 17y ago

C#, Java, Rail -> Why all three, eaither is a substitute of other. MS-SQL, Oracle, Mysql -> Ditto above. My point being that if you list all of them you probaly do not know any of these at the level I want/require.

cousin_it 17y ago
What if they used C# for a desktop app, Java for a mobile app and Rails for a webapp? In my own case, I guess having experience with PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby is the ultimate fail, because they all solve the same problems and are very similar to boot. Interesting way to look at it! What percentage of HN's audience did you just fail?
- davidw 17y ago
  Those that have been around for a while? I got started doing web stuff in 1997, with Perl. We then switched to the up and coming PHP. Later I branched out and did some Tcl and Python and have since pretty much converted to Rails for web stuff. I also know C, Java at least in the context of Java ME for mobile stuff, and a bit of this, that, and the other thing (Erlang, Emacs lisp). It all depends on what you want, of course, as I'm more of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of guy. Of course, what the OP probably means is that these sort of random strings of technologies look, at times, a bit dubious.
  - shabda 17y ago
    > Of course, what the OP probably means is that these sort of random strings of technologies look, at times, a bit dubious. Yes. If you were looking for a webdev position, you probably will not list your Perl and Rails experience with same prominance as your Tcl and C experience.
    - davidw 17y ago
      Err... actually I would:-) http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ Point taken though.
- shabda 17y ago
  I know Java, Python, Javascript, Sql, PL/Sql quite well, and have played with a number of others including C#, and other functional language. I have used MySQL, POstgresSQl and Oracle. However, if I were looking for a JOb I will probably only list Python, Django, Mysql and company prominently and list others with a disclaimer: "Lst used 3 years ago". Listing all of them together without further info doesnot give a good impression (to me at least). This is persional experience, so YMVV of course.
  - viraptor 17y ago
    Well... what I do to not sound like I'm just listing every technology there is, is to split them into `expert`, `good`, `ok` levels of experience. So that even if I list 10+ languages I can comfortably use, it still seems fairly obvious which are the important ones (2 on expert, 2-3 on good, rest on ok).

by shabda 17y ago

cousin_it 17y ago

What if they used C# for a desktop app, Java for a mobile app and Rails for a webapp? In my own case, I guess having experience with PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby is the ultimate fail, because they all solve the same problems and are very similar to boot. Interesting way to look at it! What percentage of HN's audience did you just fail?

davidw 17y ago
Those that have been around for a while? I got started doing web stuff in 1997, with Perl. We then switched to the up and coming PHP. Later I branched out and did some Tcl and Python and have since pretty much converted to Rails for web stuff. I also know C, Java at least in the context of Java ME for mobile stuff, and a bit of this, that, and the other thing (Erlang, Emacs lisp). It all depends on what you want, of course, as I'm more of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of guy. Of course, what the OP probably means is that these sort of random strings of technologies look, at times, a bit dubious.
- shabda 17y ago
  > Of course, what the OP probably means is that these sort of random strings of technologies look, at times, a bit dubious. Yes. If you were looking for a webdev position, you probably will not list your Perl and Rails experience with same prominance as your Tcl and C experience.
  - davidw 17y ago
    Err... actually I would:-) http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ Point taken though.
shabda 17y ago
I know Java, Python, Javascript, Sql, PL/Sql quite well, and have played with a number of others including C#, and other functional language. I have used MySQL, POstgresSQl and Oracle. However, if I were looking for a JOb I will probably only list Python, Django, Mysql and company prominently and list others with a disclaimer: "Lst used 3 years ago". Listing all of them together without further info doesnot give a good impression (to me at least). This is persional experience, so YMVV of course.
- viraptor 17y ago
  Well... what I do to not sound like I'm just listing every technology there is, is to split them into `expert`, `good`, `ok` levels of experience. So that even if I list 10+ languages I can comfortably use, it still seems fairly obvious which are the important ones (2 on expert, 2-3 on good, rest on ok).