Nornagest comments on Two More Things to Unlearn from School - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 19 August 2014 12:08:28AM *  2 points [-]

One popular method, if you've got a programming job, is to write some automation tools or other minor, relatively language-agnostic projects in whatever language is buzzword-compliant at the moment. Wrote a few build scripts in Ruby? Congratulations, you've deployed Ruby infrastructure in a mission-critical environment.

This will usually come out once you're talking to a human, but at that point you can talk about your personal projects and show off your actual knowledge of the language.