[ale] [JOBS] Sr. Systems Administrator positions
Jeff Hubbs
jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 10:25:35 EST 2009
Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> And even though this posting, as Aaron said, appears
> legitimate, what are we to make of 5 years of Red Hat administration
> being considered "Senior" or any other head-scratcher that appears in a
> posting (like, say, "20 years of Perl programming" or "C, C+, and C++")?
>
>
> Actually, you could have 20 years experience with C. I started using C
> in 1987 it's been around since the early 70's. I believe Larry Wall had
> already written and was using Perl in the late 80s as well, although I
> don't know about it's general availability at that time.
>
I realize that (I was seeing C in '84/'85); my two things in quotes
weren't to be connected. The joke was supposed to be the "C+" between
the "C" and the "C++".
> All I'm saying is let's think before we start commenting on job
> postings. As I recall, when we had a job list, this didn't happen at
> all, because folks saw it simply as a place to find a job or a person
> for a job.
Okay...well...it looks like there were comments because people were
thinking about what they read.
- Jeff
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