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0 pointsYgg211mo ago0 comments

> One friend had just finished a 3 month program

In software by the time you finish your 3 months course the tech is considered obsolete.

Not just Frontend. Backend can change on a dime.

Elastic/MySQL/CockroachDB is using different license that's incompatible to AWS. We have to switch our stack!

Kafka is out. It's all about Iggy! What do you mean it's different language? Learn it!

Things can be hard in different ways. After coding for whole week doing garden work can almost come as a relief.

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grandempire11mo ago

> by the time you finish your 3 months course the tech is considered obsolete.

This is a meme that’s just not true. Nobody outside of the most junior applicant or most transient contractor is paid for the skills they learned this year.

The most important skills last forever. Getting a good CS or EE degree is still the best way to get started.

dharmab11mo ago

Exactly. In the past ten years the main differences in my professional tech stack are that I write Go instead of Java and my software runs in containers on Kubernetes instead of JAR files on CentOS. My friends have all had much more significant changes and retraining in their careers.

grandempire11mo ago

Yep even within internet technology this is ridiculous. Imagine we time machined a Perl old-head from 1995 only knowing http, Unix, networking, etc. They could be invaluable at any company in a month.

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Ygg2OP11mo ago

> In the past ten years the main differences in my professional tech stack are that I write Go instead of Java.

Ten years isn't enough time to standardize something and make it a job requirement.

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hardwaresofton11mo ago

> Kafka is out. It's all about Iggy! What do you mean it's different language? Learn it!

Are people really using Iggy/hyping it already? TIL it's now an Apache project[0], that's awesome, it looks impressive!

Sure, most reasonable people are definitely not ripping out Kafka for Iggy yet, but I'm certainly happy to hear it getting more usage/at least being considered.

[0]: https://blog.iggy.rs/posts/apache-incubator/

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0 pointsYgg211mo ago0 comments

> One friend had just finished a 3 month program

In software by the time you finish your 3 months course the tech is considered obsolete.

Not just Frontend. Backend can change on a dime.

Elastic/MySQL/CockroachDB is using different license that's incompatible to AWS. We have to switch our stack!

Kafka is out. It's all about Iggy! What do you mean it's different language? Learn it!

Things can be hard in different ways. After coding for whole week doing garden work can almost come as a relief.

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grandempire11mo ago

> by the time you finish your 3 months course the tech is considered obsolete.

This is a meme that’s just not true. Nobody outside of the most junior applicant or most transient contractor is paid for the skills they learned this year.

The most important skills last forever. Getting a good CS or EE degree is still the best way to get started.

dharmab11mo ago

grandempire11mo ago

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Ygg2OP11mo ago

> In the past ten years the main differences in my professional tech stack are that I write Go instead of Java.

Ten years isn't enough time to standardize something and make it a job requirement.

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hardwaresofton11mo ago

> Kafka is out. It's all about Iggy! What do you mean it's different language? Learn it!

Are people really using Iggy/hyping it already? TIL it's now an Apache project[0], that's awesome, it looks impressive!

Sure, most reasonable people are definitely not ripping out Kafka for Iggy yet, but I'm certainly happy to hear it getting more usage/at least being considered.

[0]: https://blog.iggy.rs/posts/apache-incubator/

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