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Most, if not all, of us here on HN would be out of our normal jobs. There isn't really any immediate need for developers when there isn't any electricity.
by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Most, if not all, of us here on HN would be out of our normal jobs. There isn't really any immediate need for developers when there isn't any electricity.
- grecy 9y agoThink bigger. Almost overnight you would have no access to food or clean drinking water. There would certainly be no gasoline, heating, cooling, showers, etc. You wouldn't even be able to "get" money - ATMs won't work and you certainly won't be able to use your smart phone. So you would not be able to buy life necessities even if someone were selling them. A job will be the last thing you think about.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoI was mostly being tongue-in-cheek. Of course we wouldn't care about a job at that point...its also why I have the required amount of necessities ready to go in case it does.
- kwhitefoot 9y ago> the required amount of necessities ready to go What is the required amount? And where where would you go?
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoI should say I have my required amount of necessities... Where would I go? It depends
- zyb09 9y agoI think what he is trying to say is, that developers will be useless dead weight in this kind of post apocalyptic scenario. Everybody will be out of there normal day jobs, but a lot of people can contribute to survival with their skillset. Doctors, mechanics, farmers, caretakers, hand labor, etc. will be in high demand. Office people & developers, not so much.
- talmand 9y agoAm I one of the rare developers that grew up in rural USA that has remnants of what are now known as survival skills but I just consider as childhood fun? I always tell my team that if things go bad then I'll be the one keeping them alive.
- logfromblammo 9y agoWe are not dependent upon any specific technology. We are "fixers", and computers are just our hammer that makes everything else look like a nail. Take them away, and the other, lesser tools in the toolbox are still there. I intend to attach myself to a raider strongman, to provide solutions to their difficult problems, such as how to crack an entrenched survivalist's defenses and get his stockpile out. I'm a decent hand at basic chemistry, too, like organic extractions and distillations. There are many potential princes, and Machiavelli only needs one of them.
- dsq 9y agoAll developed countries have numerous storage depots, the existence and location of which are only accessible in some online form. Even offline digital form such as a downloaded wikipedia. So a computer-literate person might be of use to a post downfall warlord, plunked down before a laptop powered by a diesel generator and ordered to "do the magic" perl scripts to retrieve all Costco warehouses within a fifty mile radius...