> Ruby: 2 years, responsible for at least one project of >10K
>       lines. (Strong Lisp/SmallTalk background may be an
>       acceptable substitute.)

While I think its great to see the job market get into drive, it would 
also be nice if we could avoid being as narrowly defined as the drone 
lines.

I, for one, wouldn't fit the description above. Number of years is a 
utter lackluster  indicator for job performance. Rewarding the use of 
10K lines in Ruby is also fairly questionable.

Johanna Rothman has this great quote for getting out of such narrow 
defines:

    "If you still think you need some number of years of some language
     or environment, stop using shorthand and describe what deep 
knowledge
     you're looking for. Maybe you can find it some other way. Maybe you
     don't need some number of years, but you need some kind of 
application
     context"

She's putting it a lot milder than I did on 
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000409.html
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
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http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
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