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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by osazuwa »

Started a newsletter on data science and machine learning, which basically curates stuff I think are HN worthy, sifts through all the "how to be a data scientist without understanding math" and "this manga does not exist" posts for the things that are really insightful. https://altdeep.substack.com/

Japanese. Learned Chinese in early twenties then started with Japanese until life happened. Picked it up again, and trying to learn it as a third language with my wife. Making progress.

Reinforcement learning, but not the deep RL stuff as much as the fundamentals and theory. Really enjoying working through https://agentmodels.org/

Rust, with a colleague, but mostly because I like my colleague.

Will soon take a class on Racket with my wife.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by k0t0n0 »

spraak wrote: post #84
k0t0n0 wrote: post #5

microservices,kafka and Clojure/FP. I just went over the microservices part and it's already boring. but Clojure as a language interests me but I never really developed on JVM. so I am skeptic about that. JVM out of the way I think clojure could be a good replacement for node/php/golang for server-side.

So I've been looking into microservices communicating with a persistent message broker like Kafka and what I'm still not sure about is the frotnend - that is, I know that the FE will communicate over https with an API gateway service (so REST or GraphQL) but if the FE needs a resource, how should the API gateway handle the request back to the browser? The only pattern I've seen so far is to issue a 201 CREATED for e.…

I am not sure if I understood you correctly answer your question. are you asking for resource management (file uploads, etc...) in MS?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by ex3xu »

Haskell. A couple very solid books for Haskell came out in 2019 -- Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt, and Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano Mena -- and I was lucky enough to find a Functional Programming Meetup group in my area with some guys who write Haskell code every day.

Currently falling, albeit very slowly, down the rabbit hole of FP -> category theory -> HoTT.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by lasagnaphil »

ydnaclementine wrote: post #57

Music producing with LMMS, mostly wanting to make jungle dnb sounding stuff I've installed FL studio a few times in the past but didn't get really far. This time I've decided, let's actually gain some understanding of theory and tools (like synths: https://youtu.be/atvtBE6t48M ) and make a little something just for fun. I'm using LMMS because now I'm on linux and don't want to deal with wine and FL studio. LMMS is ac…

Reaper is quite a decent DAW and although it isn’t free, it’s at a reasonable price ($60 for a hobbyist license). They started to provide experimental Linux builds, so maybe it may be useful for you.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by weka »

ex3xu wrote: post #144

Haskell. A couple very solid books for Haskell came out in 2019 -- Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt, and Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano Mena -- and I was lucky enough to find a Functional Programming Meetup group in my area with some guys who write Haskell code every day. Currently falling, albeit very slowly, down the rabbit hole of FP -> category theory -> HoTT.

Mind sharing books that got you started? I've been looking into getting started with Haskell myself.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by iwalton3 »

werber wrote: post #68

Svelte has been my new thing, and I'm trying to be better at writing js tests even though I hate writing them because hubris

I picked this up as well after seeing it here a few days ago. I rewrote part of my site to use it from React, and I really like what they've done with the component authoring experience.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by sameerds »

Probably an isolated point of view, but I stopped learning "new tech" a long time ago. I have a systems programming job and C/C++ is my bread and butter. The only new thing that I might spend some time on this year is C++14, because our build tools will enable it some time soon.

On the non-tech side, I started learning Tabla (a musical instrument) this year. This is far enough out of my daily activities that I am getting a kick out of the new skills I need to master, especially the dexterity required to play different strokes with each hand while keeping time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla

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