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by vidarh
3159 days ago
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That's a good point - I'd never list COBOL, or APL or any number of other languages I'd never want to program in, on my jobs profile because I've never, ever been approached for jobs in those languages (and if I did, it'd be a novelty to be approached about it). Java, on the other hand, I might list because it's a major, popular language that I personally dislike working in. Doesn't mean I consider Java worse than COBOL. |
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Twenty years ago I practically got a job offer merely by asking a question on Usenet about a particular piece of test equipment.
IIRC it was some HP 'bed-of-nails' beast for programmatically testing circuit boards. You would setting pins as inputs/outputs, analog or digital, give pulse or waveform patterns, etc.
It sounds really cool, but this thing was horrendous to use, you had to run it on a specialized HP-UX box with a Motif interface, and it was not very pleasant.
But I was surprised that by asking one random question on some HP or Motif usenet forum (which I don't believe I could get anybody to answer), some tech company was practically offering me a job to use this system for their own test workflow.
I refused, but it did give me some confidence knowing I had some obscure job skills I could fall back on if needed.