This essay hits close to home. I was commenting the other day about how my laundry list of skills on my resume gets shorter by the year. It's not that the dog c

This essay hits close to home. I was commenting the other day about how my laundry list of skills on my resume gets shorter by the year. It's not that the dog can't learn new tricks: the implicit message stated by a skill on my resume is deepening. Sure I did a semester of Prolog in college, but I can't in good conscience hit the ground running on a project, so it's dropped. Core skills, the things that define you as a hacker, are what lives on your resume "etched in stone". During an interview you can wax about how awesome Forth is or the time you developed a VRML site.