Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017?

Posted by DrNuke on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Where in your opinion the most interest will be from a technical point of view in 2017? One and one only hot skill to master for gigs and work in a pioneer market. Many thanks and happy holidays.

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by itamarst on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:39AM (#13210809)

Figuring out what the real problem is.

To put it another way, technology-specific skills come and go, fundamental skills will serve you next year and every year.

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by itamarst on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:47AM (#13229006)

I expanded this into a blog post: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/12/20/the-best-technology/

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by akulbe on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:26PM (#13216567)

People skills. You can have all the technical chops in the world... but if you're unable to communicate, or a jerk, it doesn't amount to much.

How would you apply something like that?

Being able to understand difficult problems, and articulate them to anyone else in a way that they can understand.

Being able to diffuse a difficult situation, and help reduce stress, because you have a big picture view of the situation, and can bring calmness and reason to the table.

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by id122015 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:51AM (#13219352)

People skills is a general expression. Where there are people there is politics. Political science.

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by Tempest1981 on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:42AM (#13210628)

AI: http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/14/silicon-valleys-savior...

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by dublin on Monday December 19, 2016 @07:00PM (#13216146)

In principle, it should be easier to build an AI that writes mobile or web apps than it is to build an AI that can reliably and safely drive a car on open roads with human drivers. Think about it. Why don't we have one of these? It would put millions of barely capable web programmers out of business. Not that there's anything wrong with that... ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by GFischer on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:22PM (#13224148)

Plenty of website builders out there (someone mentioned Wix). Not to mention Facebook is the de facto website builder for a LOT of small businesses.

People will still pay money out of convenience :) (fortunately for a lot of guys).

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by bbcbasic on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:38AM (#13218555)

We have WiX, does that count?

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by integrii on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:19PM (#13226569)

No - the ML community

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Re:Ask HN: One and one only hot skill for 2017? by ccc111 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:47AM (#13218382)

same reason a robot can't make 'art'

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