For those people who find Dilbert a little obscure…
I remember during the dot-com daze, recruiters wanted Java programmers with more years of experience than the language had even been in existence for. Last year, I saw an ad on Cragslist for a web developer, requiring someone to have six years of experience in Ruby on Rails. Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about this:
Ruby on Rails was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a project management tool by the web design (now web application) company 37signals. It was first released to the public in July 2004. In August 2006 Apple announced that it would ship Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, which was released in October 2007.
Obviously, you had to be way ahead of the curve for this position. I was tempted to apply just to see what would happen.
