Obsolete Technical Skills

Ponca City, We Love You writes "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. We're invited to contribute more."

Comments

Re:Assembly isn't obsolete!

[Zondar]

I guess they're forgetting about things like optimized device drivers, true performance-oriented embedded systems architectures, microcode segments, and anything to do with hardware development.

Re:Assembly isn't obsolete!

[Oscaro]

I don't think GCC works that way. Actually, it does. You can use "gcc -S" to write the assembly output on a file. I find it very instructive, and you can see the effects of the various optimization options...