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What software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world?
by matte_black 9y ago
What software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world?
- cloudwalking 9y agoThose skills which led you to master programming will enable you solve countless problems the apocalypse will bring.
- Swizec 9y agoSo problem solving? That does seem pretty useful, yep. Management skills could be crucial too. But there’s prob gonna be people around who are better at it. Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates. Then we’re all doomed.
- bonesss 9y ago> Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates. Don't worry, we're implementing Survival KANBAN. Challenges and allocations will happen naturally on a board, while management tracks concurrent Survival In Progress to make sure we're not creating more survivors than we can handle.
- pault 9y agoI would think basic knowledge of electrical engineering, solar & battery technology, radio, and mesh networking would make you pretty handy. Front end developers will be the first ones in the stew pot.
- booleandilemma 9y agoFor most developers there is no overlap with what they know about software and the things listed above.
- pault 9y agoThe best time to start learning electrical engineering was 10 years ago. The second best time is today! ;)
- toomuchtodo 9y agoAlso survival skills and amateur radio skills.
- matte_black 9y agoI don’t know, if any of those things can expose an API or provide some kind of IoT interface I could see backend skills being very useful. I figure if most data centers are targeted and destroyed people will probably have to host servers on their own local machines, which at least requires a DevOps person in each community.
- pkaye 9y agoHence the stew pot ;)
- booleandilemma 9y agoHe edited that in later :)
- indemnity 9y agoI’m a backend developer and I’m still useless with those things :)
- matte_black 9y agoIf there’s no need for front end devs anymore does that mean apps will be designed in very utilitarian, command line like interfaces with no frills? That might actually be pleasant.
- hateduser2 9y agoFront end dev is utilitarian. Learning is not 0 cost.
- tambienben 9y agoIf true, Armageddon can't get here fast enough.
- mter 9y agoWe make enough money to live in the suburbs instead of the city and can afford a house where we can store food, water, books (the dead tree kind), tools and firearms. If you put a machine/wood working shop in your garage + you do your own home repairs you can learn all kinds of useful skills.
- aqsalose 9y ago> What software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world? At the moment of writing this, North Korea alone is not able to bring about the kind of total apocalypse people are thinking when they talk about "post-apocalyptic world". Assuming China joins in (thought I am unsure why they would, unless US strikes first), according the Wikipedia they have 260 warheads [1], which is enough to bring about a massive catastrophe but I am not convinced that the result would be total collapse of civilization. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...