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Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. by hkmurakami on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:08PM (#11221580)
I've been simultaneously waiting for and dreading the same future for rails engineers, since so many are under the belief that web development is the ticket...
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Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. by dredmorbius on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:30PM (#11221898)
Yeah, I've started seeing occasional queries on HN about what the Next Big Thing will be. Which raises another challenge: chasing the tech curve. It's one thing to have found the right tech, another to correctly anticipate the market's next move.

The worse when you realise everything that's up-and-coming is recapitulating all the mistakes you recognised from the last time.

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Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. by w1ntermute on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:49PM (#11222096)
The demand for Rails engineers is tied to the startup bubble. As soon as the latter pops (well, it already is), so will the former.
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