I often read comments from other HN members, saying how they kept there skills up to date keeping them employable in a changing work place. As a Linux device driver developer, what new skills/technology can I learn to future-proof myself in terms of work?
Ask HN: Future-proof my skills for work
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#3IoT is the natural progression. Robotics software perhaps.
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#4Imo you’re probably already nearly there. Most new developers are web developers having done a 6 week bootcamp and while there is an abundance of these roles now, I imagine they will be the first to be automated.
Anything that requires deep technical knowledge will provide job security
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#5Imo you’re probably already nearly there. Most new developers are web developers having done a 6 week bootcamp and while there is an abundance of these roles now, I imagine they will be the first to be automated. Anything that requires deep technical knowledge will provide job security
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#6Embedded programming, signal processing, performance optimization.
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#7Google fuchsia.
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#8Embedded programming, signal processing, performance optimization.
Even embedded is changing massively. The days of regular ASM use are already long behind us and the time when you'd use the smallest, cheapest MCU available and run a bare metal program on top is past in the high end. The mid and low ends are going the same way in the next decades. I've seen companies who have compilers less than a decade out of date or even updated annually! You can actually talk to people who aren't in safety critical areas about undefined behavior and formal verification without getting quizzical looks nowadays. It's shocking.
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#9Embedded programming, signal processing, performance optimization.
Even embedded is changing massively. The days of regular ASM use are already long behind us and the time when you'd use the smallest, cheapest MCU available and run a bare metal program on top is past in the high end. The mid and low ends are going the same way in the next decades. I've seen companies who have compilers less than a decade out of date or even updated annually! You can actually talk to people who aren'…
There is an ever increasing amount of networking in the embedded space. For example, in the past you might have connected several stepper motors to driver circuits on a single MPU and had a RTOS managing concurrent operations. Now you are more likely to have a dedicated MPU on the stepper motor, connected via CANbus and responding to commands to move to a specific position and respond when that position is reached or a time-out due to a jam, overload, etc. Zero position detection is also more likely to be a sub-function of that stepper motor "module".
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#10Google fuchsia.
Fuchsia looks very promising. I wonder why it still hasn't been released as part of a product, e.g. ChromeBook?