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As someone who has been in the industry for about 10 years now I can say with certainty that the shiny new technology of the week will no longer be the hot new
by Rickasaurus 14y ago
As someone who has been in the industry for about 10 years now I can say with certainty that the shiny new technology of the week will no longer be the hot new thing next year. Most of them will simply disappear in the 3-5 year time frame.
Want advice? Pick a problem and become really good at solving it. Know the theory and know the tech most people are using to solve it (Hint: It most likely won't be on hacker news). Ignore just about everything else.
Once you've got well above average skills, try to get on a team with people who know more about it than you. You can learn new stuff mentored in about 1/5th of the time.
- playing_colours 14y agoWhat do you mean under "problem"? It's say "building web sites using RoR" or it should be something more or less specific?
- achompas 14y agoI don't know how GP feels about this, but web development is almost commoditized at this point. The barrier to entry is pretty low, and supply has grown sharply as more people learn how to code. I think GP means something less specific, like "become an expert in distributed database systems" or "learn to develop infrastructure for distributed machine learning." Those problems are complementary to some of the biggest areas in tech now (machine learning, distributed computing) and will not go away for a long time.