The New-ish Technologies That Will Alter Your Career

Nerval's Lobster writes Over at Dice, there's a discussion of the technologies that could actually alter how you work (and what you work on) over the next few years, including 3D printing, embedded systems, and evolving Web APIs. Granted, predicting the future with any accuracy is a nigh-impossible feat, and a lot of nascent technologies come with an accompanying amount of hype. But given how these listed technologies have actually been around in one form or another for years, and don't seem to be fading away, it seems likely that they'll prove an increasing factor in how we live and work over the next decade and beyond. For those who have no interest in mastering aspects of the so-called "Internet of Things," or other tech on this list, never fear: if the past two decades have taught us anything, it's that lots of old hardware and software never truly goes away, either (hi, mainframes!).

Comments

Shilling for dice.

[gstoddart]

And, here we go again, gratuitously shilling for dice.com.

No thanks.

Re:Shilling for dice.

[gstoddart]

Well, who else should/would they gratuitously shill for?

Bah, in all likelihood it's to an article on Dice.com which is just a summary of a well written article elsewhere.

I don't expect anything from Dice.com to give me first-hand insights on anything, just whatever their advertisers and executives want to hawk this week.

Sorry, but Slashdot has gone downhill since Dice.com, and many of us will point that out at every chance we get.

I liked the original title better

[netsavior]

"5 Meaningless buzzwords not worth your time"

Yeah yeah these things exist... and have existed for decades.

So Wait

[Anrego]

This is a two person operation?

Nerval's Lobster works for slashdot, and from his comment history, his entire job is to submit dice.com stories (this is not an exaggeration, as was pointed out to me, go look, it's literally nothing but dice.com posts).

However, he can't actually directly post the articles? So he is literally paid to _submit_ articles to slashdot, but can't directly post them himself? Isn't that a little silly?

Re:So Wait

[gstoddart]

See, any legitimate news organization would have to give a disclaimer about the relationship.

So, one of two things is happening:

Either Nerval's Lobster is purely created to make it look like someone is posting stuff. We'll call that astroturfing.

Or, option B, whatever this poor sod submits, some asshat changes to point to a dice.com clone of the article. We'll call that shilling.

And, yes, I can't see a single story posted by Nerval's Lobster which doesn't point to dice.

So I'm afraid we have to go with astroturfing and blatant shilling.

Thanks for pointing that out, now I can ignore crap from this poster as well the shit from Bennett fuck-me-in-the-ass Haselton.

Dice

[DoofusOfDeath]

Over at Dice, there's a discussion

Hell, that's s reason for us not to follow the discussion. Seriously.

Dice-related posts are like diversity hires. They may be good, but people are assuming that they weren't picked for their quality.