Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by WheelsAtLarge » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

nnoitra wrote: post #287

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #130

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People think this is similar to the outsourcing trend of the past. No this is bigger than that. The big difference is that in the past there was a difference between outsourced vs working from the office employees. This time there will be no difference. All employees will be the same and employees will be employed based on merit to the company without any stigma. Also, it's going to be a long time before we go back t…

Software engineering salaries will go significantly down as a result of this, wont they?

Yup, top notch engineer will always get paid well but most salaries will fall. 1st the engineering pool will increase both due to the distance between employees and employers not being a big obstacle and more people who can choose it as a career will choose it. 2nd engineers can now live in a lower cost community and will be willing to settle for a lower salary.

As always employer will look to pay the least so they will do their best to push salaries down when ever they can.

But keep in mind it will still be a well paid job when compared to other careers.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by jlbnjmn » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #262

ta17711771 wrote: post #260

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And...the drone.

Are the drone's airbags deployed on impact like a car's? If that's the case, it's not protecting people it could hit because it's already hit them at that point. Is the idea that it has some kind of collision detection system and deploys them in advance of the collision? Edit: Did a quick search, I see now that one of the ideas is that it auto-deploys in case of malfunction that is likely to lead to a crash.

They deploy based on anomalies. Unexpected loss of altitude or attitude, primarily. Or an obstacle rapidly approaching.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by rajnathani » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 3:38 PM UTC

pxtail wrote: post #303

gringoDan wrote: post #26

Remote work. 20 years of progress were consolidated into the last 3 months. Previously, you saw people living in hubs like SF and NYC for the high salary and high prestige jobs. But when those jobs are available from anywhere, all of a sudden the "lifestyle cities" like Boulder, Boise, Chattanooga, etc. start to look a whole lot better. You no longer have to sacrifice the high-prestige career to live in a lower cost-…

There is another angle when it comes to this "remote work revolution" - does it really matter for employer if remotely working employee lives 200 miles away or 10000? Not necessarily. And oh yes, there are plenty of solid and skilled potential employees around the world who will work for fraction of current SV salaries. It looks like widely appraised "disruption" might be coming to SV as well ;-)

Time zone differences make talent in similar time zones more preferable.

But I agree that SV will get greatly affected in a detrimental way by remote work.