Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn?

An anonymous reader writes "I've been a software engineer for about 15 years, most of which I spent working on embedded systems (small custom systems running Linux), developing in C. However, web and mobile technologies seem to be taking over the world, and while I acknowledge that C isn't going away anytime soon, many job offers (at least those that seem interesting and in small companies) are asking for knowledge on these new technologies (web/mobile). Plus, I'm interested in them anyway. Unfortunately, there are so many of those new technologies that it's difficult to figure out what would be the best use of my time. Which ones would you recommend? What would be the smallest set of 'new technologies' one should know to be employable in web/mobile these days?"

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It's 2014

[StripedCow]

Answer:
Corporate Finance, Intellectual Property Law, Data Mining

Web Development

[Anonymous Coward]

So we wont have to put up with this horrible slashdot beta crap.

Re:Work on the basics

[VortexCortex]

whose only knowledge of C is that it's the third letter of the alphabet.

Actually, 'C', is the second letter of the alphabet's char array. 'A' is zeroth.

Re:Work on the basics

[Daniel Hoffmann]

Actually C is the 0x47th letter in the alphabet I use.

Duh

[hackertourist]

Antigravity, nuclear fusion, holodeck.

Re: Work on the basics

[arielCo]

C is for Cookie, and your browsers store them for me! (Omnom nom, nom)

Re:Work on the basics

[dkleinsc]

Actually, most developers and a lot of systems I encounter use a character encoding that they say is UTF-8, but actually kinda uses ASCII. This causes all sorts of interesting issues, which is why I've dubbed this encoding WTF-8.