Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#11

Post by macando » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 7:39 AM UTC

chagweyh wrote: post #6

SQL

It's not glamorous but SQL comes to mind first when I think about this. Compared to the mountains of business-crtitical code written in SQL the number of people who are really good at it is tiny.

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#12

Post by roystonvassey » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 10:54 AM UTC

data science. Or, what's essentially a catch-all term these days for everything from sql queries to Artificial intelligence. The tools, applications have of course tremendously evolved but at its core, if you develop a good eye for working with data (read recent blog by the ex-Spotify guy), you'll find yourself in surprising career moves and growth.

- source: data point of one, my own anecdotal account of being in data for the last 16 years

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#13

Post by Leparamour » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 1:24 PM UTC

roystonvassey wrote: post #12

data science. Or, what's essentially a catch-all term these days for everything from sql queries to Artificial intelligence. The tools, applications have of course tremendously evolved but at its core, if you develop a good eye for working with data (read recent blog by the ex-Spotify guy), you'll find yourself in surprising career moves and growth. - source: data point of one, my own anecdotal account of being in da…

>read recent blog by the ex-Spotify guy

Can you share a link perhaps?

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#14

Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

Embedded systems. We're a long way from being done with putting chips in physical objects.

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#15

Post by roystonvassey » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

Leparamour wrote: post #13

roystonvassey wrote: post #12

data science. Or, what's essentially a catch-all term these days for everything from sql queries to Artificial intelligence. The tools, applications have of course tremendously evolved but at its core, if you develop a good eye for working with data (read recent blog by the ex-Spotify guy), you'll find yourself in surprising career moves and growth. - source: data point of one, my own anecdotal account of being in da…

>read recent blog by the ex-Spotify guy Can you share a link perhaps?

Sure! Here you go - https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story....

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#16

Post by methusala8 » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

macando wrote: post #11

chagweyh wrote: post #6

SQL

It's not glamorous but SQL comes to mind first when I think about this. Compared to the mountains of business-crtitical code written in SQL the number of people who are really good at it is tiny.

Any good resources on how to get "really" good at SQL?

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#17

Post by roschdal » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 10:05 PM UTC

Painting houses. Plumbing. Carpenter. Soldier.

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#18

Post by LarryMade2 » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 11:56 PM UTC

Tech troubleshooting, not programming but someone always can use computer help and will pay quick.

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#19

Post by macando » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 8:27 AM UTC

methusala8 wrote: post #16

macando wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not glamorous but SQL comes to mind first when I think about this. Compared to the mountains of business-crtitical code written in SQL the number of people who are really good at it is tiny.

Any good resources on how to get "really" good at SQL?

If you've mastered the basics, read this book:

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

Re: Ask HN: What tech skill is most resilient to crises and changing trends?

#20

Post by thorin » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC

Written and verbal communication

Logic

Respect for others

All relevant skills in tech.

Storing and retrieving data, processing data and communicating between systems is probably the fundamental parts of most business systems. If you've done this using a few different technologies there should be few major surprises except RTFM and Stack Overflow (!)