to quote:<p>"if someone comes to you and says, 'Let's do this in Flash,' you say no."<p>Silverstein was concerned on this point. He raised his hand. "We're using Flash," he said, as the class spun around to look at him, some nodding comfortingly. "And I think it's leaving us out of mobile. But can I just tell my programmer to change it? Can he put it through a translator?"<p>"Yes, and you can," said Friedman. "Like through a sausage maker."<p>---<p>First of all, this is just false, plainly untrue. This just reads like a class to teach old money and others who are in a position to hire programmers, but who don't know much about programming themselves, to fake being knowledgeable to get a good price. In other words, it allows those with money and influence avoid having to learn a new way of doing business, perpetuating their privilege at the expense of people who have actually put in enough time to grok the difference between the web and the net.<p>If you have access to enough technology to know "know what 'the Facebook' is or how to text a selfie" then you have no class barrier preventing you from knowing "the difference between Java and Javascript."<p>A trade is something to be cultivated, earned and, most importantly, paid for handsomely by those who haven't taken the time to learn it. If you don't know the difference between a car that's overheating and spewing blue smoke from one that hums and shifts well, then you don't don't deserve to get a good deal on a used car. The same principle applies here.