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Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

Posted by Zonk on from the old-learning dept.

Lucas123 writes "Computerworld reporter Mary Brandel spoke with academics and head hunters to compile this list of computer skills that are dying but may not yet have taken their last gasp. The article's message: Obsolescence is a relative — not absolute — term in the world of technology. 'In the early 1990s, it was all the rage to become a Certified NetWare Engineer, especially with Novell Inc. enjoying 90% market share for PC-based servers. "It seems like it happened overnight. Everyone had Novell, and within a two-year period, they'd all switched to NT," says David Hayes, president of HireMinds LLC in Cambridge, Mass.'"

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  1. Skills, Schmills #$#%^%$$#$@#$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Reading, Writing, and Mathematics.

    However, only an illiterate and innumerate population would support War Criminals In Washington, D.C. (including most of Congress).

    Thanks for nothing,
    Philboyd Studge

  2. Re:Amateur's make me laugh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Outlook/Exchange 2007 with SharePoint is better in every comprehensible way than Notes/Domino. You are out of your fucking mind if you believe otherwise.

  3. Ha! C != performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    C is horrible for anything but really simple single-threaded performance. Everyone will care about (data-) parallel workloads shortly, and there C just sucks. So I think the writing is pretty clearly on the wall. Even a 50% performance hit on a non-C language is fine if it's running on 8 cores whereas your C will run 2x faster but only on 1...

  4. They forgot the most dying one- the knowledge of by $0.02 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    BSD

    --
    If enithin kan gow rong it whil. (Murfey)
  5. Re:It's not C. It's the C only programmer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I bet you expected a +5 funny for that. Shut the fuck up you gay fuck, noone gives a rats ass. I can't believe all of your ancestors got laid.