20 Feb
2015
20 Feb
'15
1:09 p.m.
Folks in the
lab would stop looking up the instruction encodings
and would just ask me...I could do the assembly in my head...
I'm not at all
certain that such a skill is even marginally
valuable today. To put it another way, how many advertisements for job
openings
include "must recognize and interpret Super Wazoo 800 machine codes"?
How many ads for jobs include anything like "must be capable of writing
a compiler"? Yet compilers get written, and writing them is a
valuable, if niche, skill.
Lots of niche jobs aren't advertised widely, sometimes not at all, but
that doesn't make them unimportant.
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