> I'm not convinced you can tell that as well as you think you can. I'm skeptical as well. I remember reading a thread (probably here on HN) where somebody wa

> I'm not convinced you can tell that as well as you think you can. I'm skeptical as well. I remember reading a thread (probably here on HN) where somebody was talking about "obviously fake" resumes where the applicant listed himself as an expert in 10 different programming languages. Setting aside what "expert" could mean to different people... I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm proficient in _at least_ 10 different programming languages, and leave off quite a few like Cobol, Pascal, and ColdFusion. I've had some inexplicable job application rejections, and I've often wondered if they didn't come from somebody who looked at my resume and said, "this dude's lying".