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If you had time to learn something new in the tech field, what would you learn?

BekahHW on November 14, 2022

There are so many awesome advancements in tech happening all the time. If you had no restrictions, what would you learn?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

I would learn the basic fundamental things, not the hot stuff.
By definition they last much longer and are more generally useful.
For example DNS, I don't really understand DNS and all those strange DNS records.
Mastering DNS will be a useful skill long after Bitcoin & Blockchain will be forgotten.

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BekahHW

Love this reply so much

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Thanks!
VirtualCoffee seems awesome, I think I'm going to join like right after submitting this comment

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Vincent A. Cicirello

Clojure. I know Common Lisp and Scheme, although haven't used either since the 90s. I'm intrigued by idea of a language from the Lisp family for the JVM. I've had teaching myself Clojure on my todo list for quite some time now, but keep putting stuff ahead of it.

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Ishaan Sheikh

I would love to learn some system programming, like how the systems like database, cache, etc really works.

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Eljay-Adobe

I'd learn all the ACM Turing Lectures from the beginning until at least 1990 (or beyond).

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BekahHW

That would be amazing.

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Kirk Shillingford

I've been getting into integrations. Glue code, automations, scripting. I wish I had more time for it. I want to learn all the "zippers and buttons" of programming.

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BekahHW

That's definitely on my list, Automate all the things

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Jesus Bossa

SRE or platform engineering, I think that is becoming essential in these days.

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BekahHW

Love it!

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Jeremyprogramer

Definitely programming

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Patrick Wendo

Lisp, Clojure and Erlang. Those all seem like really great languages.