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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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friedtofu wrote: post #117
randcraw wrote: post #112

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like: - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter. - Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental. - Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer. - Develop musically, maybe even play the…

Nice. How old is the bike and how long has it been sitting? I recently tried to restore a old 92 Honda CBR600F2 that had also been sitting "far too long". Ended up spending almost as much as I paid for it due to my dumb butt leaving gas in it, ended up needing way more than its carbs cleaned out(surprise :p). Called it quits at that point unfortunately although I am looking to get another bike for similar reasons, do…

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Post by randcraw »

friedtofu wrote: post #117
randcraw wrote: post #112

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like: - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter. - Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental. - Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer. - Develop musically, maybe even play the…

Nice. How old is the bike and how long has it been sitting? I recently tried to restore a old 92 Honda CBR600F2 that had also been sitting "far too long". Ended up spending almost as much as I paid for it due to my dumb butt leaving gas in it, ended up needing way more than its carbs cleaned out(surprise :p). Called it quits at that point unfortunately although I am looking to get another bike for similar reasons, do…

Shame about the F2. I'm a big fan of the 600Fs. Mine's a 1986 Ninja 900. My first step: make sure the crank turns. :-( I drained the tank before storing it so the carbs shouldn't have gummed. But I'm sure that after 25 years of immobility its road to resurrection will be full of potholes, irregardless.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by neverartful »

fm2606 wrote: post #99
linux2647 wrote: post #22

How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^

Just read the manual that comes with the child. /s All kidding aside, my kids are 16 and 19 and I am still trying to figure it out. Pretty sure it is a journey and not a destination.

When I was a young parent, there were moments when I would have strong feelings of inadequacy and feeling paralyzed about what I should do and what I should not do. The most calming thought I had at the time was to remind myself that humans have been parenting for thousands and thousands of years and that I would consider myself to have higher than average intelligence and at least average societal training (through observation of others) about how to care for infants.

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Post by neverartful »

leoff wrote: post #46

Computer Science. After transitioning from Mechanical Engineer, and 5 years of being a "Software Engineer", I want to understand more how computers, operating systems, network, etc. work

One of the resources to be aware of is 'From Nand to Tetris'. It's online and it's free. It's of very high quality and very eye opening.

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aaronblohowiak wrote: post #119
mysterydip wrote: post #118

Ruby. I've done a range of languages, for example C, pascal, java, VB, PHP, javascript. But Ruby seems distinct from all of them in both syntax and concept (hashes, etc). I'd like to get to a point where I have a confidence that the programs I write are using efficient data structures and algorithms.

Efficiency isn’t the goal of writing ruby. I think “thinking in ruby” can be expansive to you, but “how do I program efficient ruby” is actually antithetical to that.

Efficiently thinking in ruby is more what I was getting at, yes. Right now I'm spending a lot of time just conceptually deciding how to tackle things that in other languages would be a matter of using the right syntax.

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Post by whamlastxmas »

geocrasher wrote: post #73
BadHumans wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would recommend you read Tiny Habits by Dr BJ Fogg. A lot of people recommend Atomic Habits but I will go against the grain and say I don't think Atomic Habits is a good book and Tiny Habits is a much better read.

Thank you, I'm checking that out now.

Tiny habits changed my life. Severe ADHD

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

mysterydip wrote: post #157
aaronblohowiak wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Efficiency isn’t the goal of writing ruby. I think “thinking in ruby” can be expansive to you, but “how do I program efficient ruby” is actually antithetical to that.

Efficiently thinking in ruby is more what I was getting at, yes. Right now I'm spending a lot of time just conceptually deciding how to tackle things that in other languages would be a matter of using the right syntax.

Ah yes, wonderful! The koans sites used to be a great way to get into ruby not sure if they are anymore

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Post by whamlastxmas »

friedtofu wrote: post #117
randcraw wrote: post #112

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like: - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter. - Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental. - Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer. - Develop musically, maybe even play the…

Nice. How old is the bike and how long has it been sitting? I recently tried to restore a old 92 Honda CBR600F2 that had also been sitting "far too long". Ended up spending almost as much as I paid for it due to my dumb butt leaving gas in it, ended up needing way more than its carbs cleaned out(surprise :p). Called it quits at that point unfortunately although I am looking to get another bike for similar reasons, do…

I’ve learned the same hard lesson. Restoring always cost so so much more than buying something already in that condition
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