Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 52 posts

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#11

Post by jjice »

Desafinado wrote: post #3

It's difficult to predict, but I don't see the classics going away: Java, JavaScript, SQL. But overall, the goal should be to get a broad range of experience in different platforms so the technology you use is irrelevant. From that point on you just need to decide where you want to invest your time. For example, when I was doing internships in college I invested in getting Java experience because I knew that it was u…

SQL is a great one because I've found so many devs either know nothing, or so bare minimum that it's easy to become the SQL guy on a team just because you're familiar with window functions. There's a lot of SQL out there too, and nothing has dethroned it after probably near 50 years now and I don't see anything coming close.

It's also one of the best bang-for-your-buck things to learn, time to usefulness wise. Whether you're writing JS, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, etc and have a backing DB - SQL is probably associated with the project. When it comes to NoSQL, there's a lot of great stuff out there for specific situations, but the querying is either fairly simple (with complexity on the application code or infra), or the query languages are very specific and less applicable to other software.

The core of SQL is very versatile and it'll be there whether you're at a three person startup or Wells Fargo.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#12

Post by codingdave »

beardyw wrote: post #5

If you want a clear path avoid IT. The best advice is learn to learn and don't ever stop. In my over 40 years the only constant was change. Whatever you learn at college don't assume you will end up using it.

I have the opposite perspective from my 40 years - not about learning to learn - that is 100% correct. But change is not as constant as it seems. The surface levels churns and change, but the fundamentals change very slowly. Hardware, networking, and those low layers of the OSI stack are not exactly the same as back then... but close enough. If you understood it then, you understand it now even if some details have evolved. Likewise, the UX of OSes has changed, as have the details of the internals, but not the concept of file systems and command lines.

Picking up new details is easier than evolving your understanding to a completely new paradigm, so if someone wants to learn something today and have it be relevant in 10 years, just work lower and lower in the OSI model.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#13

Post by PurpleRamen »

Communication and marketing. Nobody really knows what will be important on the technical side, especially as 10 years is a good timeframe for disruptive changes from AI. But being able to communicate well, with other humans, with yourself, and maybe even AIs, and marketing yourself on at least the basic level, are skills, which are very important in any business.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#14

Post by iExploder »

aristofun wrote: post #7

When do we start banning these questions? It is literally asked and answered every week at least. Not using search before asking shows disrespect to community, am I wrong?

well any given week the answer might be different, world is not a constant

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#15

Post by gnatman »

aristofun wrote: post #7

When do we start banning these questions? It is literally asked and answered every week at least. Not using search before asking shows disrespect to community, am I wrong?

Every small dead or dying forum I've ever been in pushes new contributors away with some version of "did you even try to use the search function???".

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#17

Post by aristofun »

gnatman wrote: post #15
aristofun wrote: post #7

When do we start banning these questions? It is literally asked and answered every week at least. Not using search before asking shows disrespect to community, am I wrong?

Every small dead or dying forum I've ever been in pushes new contributors away with some version of "did you even try to use the search function???". https://xkcd.com/1053/

Asking same question is not a contribution.

Every dying community I've ever seen was full of low quality and repetitive questions.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

#20

Post by colesantiago »

aristofun wrote: post #7

When do we start banning these questions? It is literally asked and answered every week at least. Not using search before asking shows disrespect to community, am I wrong?

Moderation is a safe job if that's what you mean, it's a safe job that not going away any time soon.
Post reply on HN