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> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time. This is spot on in my experience. As I grow in my career as a software engineer
by samcgraw 5y ago
> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time.
This is spot on in my experience.
As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apart in the field is a level-headed understanding of the fundamentals and a calm resolve to take into consideration what's worked in the past, much more than one's ability to "chase the shiny".
Honorable mention of the Lindy Effect [1] here - one of my favorite ideas from Antifragile [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/0812979680 https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...
- rootsudo 5y agoSo true. For me it has become RegEx, Email, Email Servers/security, Excel, and sorting. Never thought I'd go on about it, but man. It apparently is my niche.
- xchaotic 5y agoThanks. It's the same for me, actually - I built a lot of my career around XML and other W3C standards and the great thing about those, while complicated is that you can refer to a well defined spec to see what the behaviour SHOULD be. But I'm hoping it's not either/or question - I can continue learning software architecture patterns and anti-pattern but perhaps there is some new, realtively untapped market or end-user experience where this can be leveraged.
- bawolff 5y agoI think a big part also - new ideas often dont have info on how they fail- its all hype. However old ideas do, so if you can link them, its easier to use the new technology appropriately.