Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by Insanity » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

In my free time, I picked up:

* Python * Common Lisp

For Work:

* Pandas (Learning Python resulted in me being asked to help our 'data team' get started with Pandas)

* Go (I moved to that Team)

* Protobuf (google protocol buffers)

I've played around with some other technologies along the way as I enjoy learning various languages. But I wouldn't say I really become good with them, some other's that I've played with this year:

* OpenDylan

* Erlang

* Django

EDIT: Formatting

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by thosakwe » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:22 PM UTC

OCaml, mainly. Also picked up Flutter, and did a lot more C++.

My favorite tech in 2018 has been Parcel bundler, though.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by dejv » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

I finally take a time to study more of a deep learning (Tensorflow, Keras) and openCV. Up until now I was working mostly with text and tabular data so I was safe with random forests.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by charlieegan3 » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

I switched jobs in February and have learned a lot about Kubernetes and Google Cloud.

On my own time I've been playing with Golang, Bigquery and Image Stacking.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by gaius » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

Started with RL and hoping to get much more into it in 2019.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by cjvirtucio » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

.NET Core. It's got everything I need from the java world, without the baggage from being an old technology.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

#17

Post by RA_Fisher » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

stan, brms and rstanarm. Advanced statistical modeling. I'd highly recommend these tools to those doing supervised learning.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by elorm » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

Zhyl wrote: post #8

Weirdly, perl. I found myself on a client site in a locked down environment with only the Windows version of GIT installed. Powershell disabled, no other programs allowed. I had to produce reports on the log files for this machine, but had to obfuscate information before taking it off the server. I discovered that git had bash installed quite early on, so my initial automation and reporting was based on UNIX pipeline…

Hey, there’s an old school community(they prefer monastery) called PerlMonks[0]where you can share your Perl oneliners and also pick up some mind blowing stuff. Come hang around sometime

[0]https://perlmonks.org/

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by mongol » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

Azure. Terraform. Go.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by SimonPStevens » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

Power Query - Used for querying data in excel and Power BI, and also for a custom connector for Power BI.

OData - A standard for rest APIs.

Did some playing with .Net Core, but still not really satisfied that it's ready for serious prime time.