Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeQ==?= Dalvik? Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:52:01 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-86-36.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1307343121 29704 118.92.86.36 (6 Jun 2011 06:52:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 06:52:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5003 In message , Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 11-06-05 12:45 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message , Joshua Cranmer wrote: >> >>> In the end, it probably doesn't matter. If you're a new entrant to the >>> jobs market, you should probably have the flexibility to learn any >>> language desired of you; if you've been in the workforce for decades, >>> then your domain knowledge is what will sell you and not the languages >>> you know. >> >> I’ve been in the workforce for decades, and I keep getting challenged to >> deal with new domains, from (most recently) mobile apps and telephony, >> and going further back, databases and Web development (both back-end and >> front- end), multimedia, client-server networking etc. >> >> I don’t think specialism in one domain is going to keep you employed. > > What you mention are technologies. They are not domains. As I mentioned > in my previous post, domains are application domains, like engineering > or finance or health or education or aeronautics or games or image > recognition. No, what you mention are themselves just technologies, not domains. Engineering is just a collection of technologies; finance is technology (insofar as it is mathematically-based); health is nothing without technology these days; same with education, aeronautics, etc, etc.