> Functional programming / dynamic languages will go out of fashion.
Glad this didn't happen. Also it's weird to me to equate functional & dynamic like that.
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Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#22by DrJokepu:
> Surprisingly enough, Apple will still stay relevant even though Steve Jobs will have to leave his position due to health problems or something else.
Sad, but accurate.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#23IsaacL nailed it the best https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027093 And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D
> - The next big thing will be something totally unknown and unpredictable now, as user-generated content and social networking were in 1999. However, when it does appear, various 'experts' on it will spring from nowhere to lecture us all about it. It will still be really cool, though.
I think this basically describes AI.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#24To me the interesting question is: What cool things were predicted and still don't exist, but could if someone from that thread had spent the past 10 years trying to make it happen?
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#25> motters on Jan 1, 2010 [-] > Also, this decade sees the beginning of the "pension bomb" - the demographic bulge of post-war baby boomers crossing the threshold into retirement. It's fairly easy to predict that there will be pensions scandals, with some pensions companies going bust or paying out far less to recipients than had been originally advertised. Also I predict the beginning of large supermarket scale retir…
Yeah basically the entire state of Florida. The Villages is pretty exceptional though.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#26My favorite from 2010 : "President-Elect Graham to Appoint Sam Altman to Cabinet"... Not too far off.
I checked and nobody predicted a Trump presidency in 2010. So no time travelers amongst us sadly.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#27IsaacL nailed it the best https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027093 And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D
The dynamic languages slower than ruby prediction didn't hold up either. The past ten years have just seen nibbling around the edges for dynamic languages, without any compelling ideas about how to make them fundamentally more expressive.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#28A lot of doom and gloom for Microsoft in that thread. But Microsoft has fared much better than anyone expected.
> But Microsoft has fared much better than anyone expected.
Its probably because they picked the right guy to lead after Ballmer.
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#29Nobody saw Bitcoin coming. (The first block had already been mined at the start of 2009, but there was no real exchange trading until later in 2010.)
Re: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
#30> Functional programming / dynamic languages will go out of fashion. Glad this didn't happen. Also it's weird to me to equate functional & dynamic like that.
Elixir is off chortling somewhere...