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Did you take a course called Advanced Rails Techologies? Did you take the course in question and find it lacking? If not, you shouldn't insult people you don't

by talmand 15y ago

Did you take a course called Advanced Rails Techologies? Did you take the course in question and find it lacking? If not, you shouldn't insult people you don't know who might be interested in such a program. How about you explain, nicely please, why taking something called Advanced Rails Technologies is a bad thing?

eli_gottlieb 15y ago
How about you explain, nicely please, why taking something called Advanced Rails Technologies is a bad thing? Because "Rails Technologies" have changed drastically in the past 5 years and do so again in the next 5 years. "Modern Web Programming" would have been a good course. "Advanced Rails Technologies" is so ridiculously over-specific and over-current that I simply can't see how it has any value for the future.
- talmand 15y ago
  So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all? Or is it just the name they chose? Because it seems really rude of you to insult an entire group of people simply because they wish to take a course of which you do not like the name. I'm totally lost on your attitude about this.
  - gaius 15y ago
    See comments above about general vs specific human capital.
  - eli_gottlieb 15y ago
    So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all? The core of any field should be eternal. For example, `while` loops and `lambda` expressions are simply not going to change that much in the next 5 years. Neither is the Model-View-Controller architecture, say. Portable, core skills are valuable. Particular syntaxes, you can just learn in your first couple weeks on a job.

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Did you take a course called Advanced Rails Techologies? Did you take the course in question and find it lacking? If not, you shouldn't insult people you don't

by talmand 15y ago

eli_gottlieb 15y ago
How about you explain, nicely please, why taking something called Advanced Rails Technologies is a bad thing? Because "Rails Technologies" have changed drastically in the past 5 years and do so again in the next 5 years. "Modern Web Programming" would have been a good course. "Advanced Rails Technologies" is so ridiculously over-specific and over-current that I simply can't see how it has any value for the future.
- talmand 15y ago
  So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all? Or is it just the name they chose? Because it seems really rude of you to insult an entire group of people simply because they wish to take a course of which you do not like the name. I'm totally lost on your attitude about this.
  - gaius 15y ago
    See comments above about general vs specific human capital.
  - eli_gottlieb 15y ago
    So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all? The core of any field should be eternal. For example, `while` loops and `lambda` expressions are simply not going to change that much in the next 5 years. Neither is the Model-View-Controller architecture, say. Portable, core skills are valuable. Particular syntaxes, you can just learn in your first couple weeks on a job.