>> And then there's the minor detail that although I know a lot of stuff 
>> about stuff... how many people actually need to know what a Huffman 
>> tree is? None. Nobody needs to know this. It serves no useful purpose.
> 
> Of course it does, it is evidence that you are *willing* and *capable* 
> of learning such things.  That is more important than what you actually 
> know.

Certainly a point worth making, and one I always try to emphasise. Heck, 
that's how I got *this* job in the first place! ;-)

I think anybody who decides to "learn PostScript" in their lunchbreak 
just out of boredom is a fairly unusual type of person.

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