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'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (venturebeat.com)
"Blockchain developer" is the top emerging job in the U.S. -- according to data published in LinkedIn's 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs report. From a report: [...] Using data gleaned from the LinkedIn Economic Graph, which serves as a "digital representation of the global economy" by analyzing the skills and job openings from across 590 million members and 30 million companies, LinkedIn found that "blockchain developers" has grown 33-fold in the past four years. In this case, "emerging jobs" refers to the growth of specific job titles on LinkedIn profiles in the period between 2014 and 2018. It's worth noting here that "blockchain" didn't appear anywhere in the top 20 emerging jobs in 2017, while "machine learning engineer" topped the list last year -- it's in second place this year.
And in another year, will be the fastest dying US job.
https://xkcd.com/1102/
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
If I start something, and convert one other person to it, that's 100% growth in a day! Fastest-growing foo!
And going from zero to one, that's an infinite growth rate!
Also a little reported fact:
More than 50% of American blockchain developers are expected to die before the age 80. Clearly this field needs regulation.
"Worldwide" - ONE WORD. "Nowhere" - ONE WORD.
...so I could join in on some of these mass scams and earn a pot of gold or two, myself.
Blockchain is new in the cloud. If your manager isn't already in on it, he will be shortly out of a job and replaced by another inane MBAonkey fully versed in modern corporate jargon.
Why the flood of crypto stories today? Someone stuck with a big bag?
Graphic Designer 2.0 ... good luck when the world realizes the buzzword is just that.
That’s a fancy name for saying would you like fries with that?
He must have a comic on data sets, too.
If my data set was taken from Utah, I'd think Mormonism is the most popular religion in the USA. Hey! I DID have a million people in it, so it's valid, riiiight?
They charge ridiculously high prices to post any job there - so the people most likely to do that are those without any sense of the real value of money.
Which describes BitCoin zealots to a "T".
#DeleteChrome
Seriously are we that bad at statistics? It's a job that didn't exist until very recently. Any time you increase something from near zero the percentage growth is going to sound like a lot. Going from 1 to 1000 is a big percentage growth. Much bigger than going from 100,001 to 101,000 even though the absolute growth is identical.
The actual number of blockchain developer jobs is a rounding error as an absolute number. There are plenty of other jobs growing MUCH faster in terms of absolute numbers.
"If I whine about Crypto enough maybe it will just go away because I don't understand it."
i use niggachain to chain my niggas
For when your worthless skills can be modified to say "would you like fries with that Big Mac?"
Bitcoin shills keep saying "blockchain will revolutionize everything", except, nobody can ever see any important application of it getting done/used anywhere ever!!!
IMHO, this is just another attempt at damage control, trying to save bitcoin/cryptocurrencies from total collapse!!!
any future in that?
I understand crypto fine, what I fail to understand is why any moron would put real money into crypto currencies.
For us it is still âoe Cloud âoe and âoe Virtualization âoe.
The second term is especially amusing to hear upper mgmt talk of it as if it were the Second Coming of Christ.
They want to virtualize EVERYTHING and they kinda gloss over a bit when you tell them that, at some point, you need a physical connection or hardware to make it work.
And in another year, will be the fastest dying US job.
Virtual currencies like bitcoin are one thing. Blockchain technology is something else entirely and will likely be with us for a long time. Perhaps a car analogy. :-)
Bitcoin and blockchain and like the Ford Model T car and the internal combustion engine (ICE). The formers (bitcoin, Model T) are just users of the latters (blockchain, ICE), formers that are entirely replaceable, yet the replacements will continue using the latters as will different classes of users unrelated to the formers use the latters.
Will there be a dip in job offerings in a year, probably, there are way too many companies trying to inappropriately shoehorn "blockchain" into their new products under development. So many just want the buzzword of "blockchain" to be more attractive to investors (so they think). These fools will disappears, they will be responsible for a dip. However there are legitimate uses for blockchain beyond cryptocurrency and the field will not die off. Blockchain is a useful new technology.
5) Having to carve out each block from various types of stone to examine performance.
4) Around Christmas, all of your co-workers see you with working the chains and start calling you "Ghost of Christmas Past".
3) Every four minutes having to explain what Blockchain is, usually to the same people.
2) Satoshi constantly sliding into your DM's.
1) Everyone can verify with absolutely distributed certainly your love life is dead.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Buwahahahahaha!
Then it must have already died in the real world
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to 45 2F 6E 40 3C DF 10 71 4E 41 DF AA 25 7D 31 3F
Ever since LinkedIn rebuilt the site to look and act like Facebook, the self-promoter social media mavens have been all over it and treating it like Facebook. Most people who actively maintain their LinkedIn account enough to get counted in statistics (I assume Microsoft picks accounts with recent activity) are super-aggressive self-promoters. My assumption would be that these would be the type of people who are out hyping their startup's "AIMLBlockchain with More Cognitive Services" product and calling themselves blockchain developers.
I think that once the cryptocurrency bubble dies down people will find a bunch of uses for this technology...but it's super-bubbly now and anyone who can glue a few blockchain library Legos together into a semi-functional web service is getting paid big money now.
People tagged with "blockchain" on stackoverflow ask the absolute stupidest questions. They are the worst. Like HTML programmers.
Subtracting t_first_adherent from t_second_adherent and taking the reciprocal to compute the Borgesian uptake of Global Illumination is a violation of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
Somewhere in there, the math completely falls apart for year-over-year sample sets of two eager, bounteous measurements, bursting at the seams. (Who's going to knock 100% knowledge inflation? Bah! Humbug! Nyquist–Shannon is all wet.)
This explains one of modern society's growth obsessions. At the second observation, you fit a linear model (that slices through your twin observations with the clingy perfection of Seven of Nine's skin-tight body suit), or no model at all.
If your data set is still monotonic at the third observation, you fit x^k or e^x.
If your data set is non-monotonic after the third observation (drat), you fit ax+b (with error bars) or C*sin(ax+b) or, more likely, D*sin(ax+b) (with no error bars — yay! Seven of Nine's cuspy-cupped dimples of delight).
By here we've already exceeded the mental bandwidth of your struggling, low-status "human interest" journalist, so neither of these elementary (but pleasing) harmonic forms are even considered.
Harmonic structure? Never heard of it. Now get the f(x) out of my way, you're cramping my click flow.
Having seen a scant few "blockchain developer" jobs and even phone interviewed for one, this vertical seems as unpredictable and unprofitable as you might think. /. and how long this has been going on. There is less reason than ever, to be on /. I guess.
This looks suspiciously like a fluff/pump article to drive talent toward a particular company or two who might be one of those weWork office startups. Given how obviously false this "news" is, I have to wonder how much it costs to shill on
This used to be called "Statistician" ...
As developers we should be smart and use the hype surrounding blockchain as a way to eke out some profit from the whole situation. Read a few whitepapers, contribute to a few open source projects and you could easily find yourself pulling in 100k+ on VC money. And there is so much of it out there. Then put what you can aside for savings and when the industry shakes itself out in a few years you will be laughing.
LOL. Now that was funny.
No you haven't. You've repeatedly posted this exact post with just the last sentence changed. You've become a spamming piece of shit.
So you're saying "blockchain developer" could have gone from one to 33 openings.
Basically yes. Any time you see "fastest growing" anything and they are talking about percentages, this is the problem.
Big companies have this problem all the time. For example 10% growth in a company sounds solid but pretty modest right? And it is. But for a company like Apple, 10% growth means they have generate as much new sales in one year as eBay's entire revenue. So imagine your task is to create a company the size of eBay out of whole cloth in one year. Apple does that routinely and yet people will say they are aren't growing if they only grow 5% instead. But a company that goes from $1 million to $5 million is "fast growing". True but pretty misleading in a lot of ways.