Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer

Re:Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer by AlchemistCamp on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @08:58AM (#34148665)

Consider that HN is tightly coupled to YC and that over half of the total market cap of YC companies is from those that started with Ruby on the back-end despite Ruby never having the number of users and “jobs” as PHP, Java, .Net, Python, C/C++, etc.

Were all those devs picking Ruby instead of Java in 2010 ruining their careers? I doubt it. Were the devs picking Java instead of Ruby for their startups? Very possibly, many of them.

Once your business comes into contact with the market, tool productivity matters more than popularity. Popularity can affect productivity, but at the end of the day, it’s the productivity that matters.

See: https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218

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Re:Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer by tester756 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:06AM (#34148730)

>Were all those devs picking Ruby instead of Java in 2010 ruining their careers? I doubt it. Were the devs picking Java instead of Ruby for their startups? Very possibly, many of them.

but is working for yc startups some good thing? like desired?

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Re:Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer by AlchemistCamp on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:36PM (#34151993)

Building a startup that ends up with a very high valuation, relative to its peer cohort, is a good thing. It's desired.

I was speaking more from a founder-perspective, but being an early employee with equity in a startup that becomes very valuable is pretty good, too.

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