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I read a wonderful comment in another thread the other day. It was about the obsession of devs to collect a whole range of technologies on their resume. It went something like: "When I hire a carpenter I won't hire him for what he has in his toolbox. I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn."

I will try to look up the link and obviously 'he' can be 'she' as well.



> I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn.

I don't know about this, I would be a bit hesitant if the carpenter to build my kitchen cabinets only knows how to use hammer and a chisel.




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