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Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
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#1621. TypeScript - I have had remarkable experience TS on frontend. Along with react hooks. Turns ES into a powerhouse. 2. GraphQL - Typed, structured API. 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory : A very powerful tool to explain human behavior. It can explain individual personal interactions, personal and professional relationships, family systems and many bigger picture things. 4. How to build desktops: Bui…
5. Ukrainian songs are beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUc_ojv6d_4
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#163Trying to learn more mathematics, as that seems to enrich so many things, including but not limited to programming. Currently reading "Introduction to Graph Theory" by Richard J. Trudeau. Also learning a bit of Phaser.js, since I'd like to make an HTML5 game sometime soonish. At some point I need to sit down and go through the gauntlet of refreshing all the skills for job interviews, (especially since I've been mostl…
Just refreshed my interview skills with interviewcake.com, Not 100% the only resource to use but it got me over the hurdle of starting.
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#164Trying to learn 'Everything'. And that's a problem. So learning how to manage learning (Not from the famous course)
..Any resources to help me?
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#165Non tech: Spanish
Tech: Python (I am not a programmer by trade today)
Generally just hooked on self development books, I blame Tim Ferriss.
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#166I'm kind of cheating with this answer because it's not a specific piece of tech, but the thing that I'm really focused on learning right now is how to build out my business by hiring developers & learning how to properly manage them as they help contribute to some of my company's projects. Most of my development work has been solo, with occasional one-off help from contractors. But the number and scope of my projects…
A few things:
Make sure you hire developers that fit the business culture you are trying to establish and understand the "why" of your company.
This is worth a read: https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire
You don't have to have overly strict rule about hours, leave, documentation, etc. but make sure it is very clear to your developers what they are expected to do, and have them evaluate their own performance (obviously with your input) every few months.
Criticise in private, complement in public.
Choose your customers wisely. You make a lot more profit when you start saying no to the wrong customers. (An easy way to say no is just to charge a lot, like 10 times more, than you would normally charge for a certain job)
Don't be afraid to make mistakes, well rather: try not to make mistakes, but expect them to happen occasionally and when they do, don't beat yourself up about it - recognise the mistake, try learn from it, and move on. It might also be an opportunity to impress your customers, by turning a bad outcome into something positive.
Make sure you set things up in such a way that can get some downtime without your company falling apart.
Good luck!
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#1671. Rust (again) to a high level of proficiency this time
2. Bringing my modern web stack skills up from indifference to high proficiency
3. Math
4. Houdini + Redshift
5. Compositing software (ideally Nuke but it's looking like AE or Fusion)
6. UE4, basic proficiency
7. Managing things like screenplays and design docs on a continuous basis, rather than just having these things exist in my head for years on end.
8. Any interesting medical/biology material I can get my hands on. I'm seemingly way more passionate about biomedical stuff than I am software these days.
9. Cooking things that aren't just nutritious but actually taste good to other people.
10. Effective time management for all of this.
The gist of it is pretty much find a bunch of things I enjoy and bounce between them to maximize efficiency, while maintaining some sort of ongoing goal system/structure to manage or otherwise guide myself through it all.
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#168In the last few months, one really fun and educational side project has been creating/designing my own programming language. It started by accident, by taking apart an existing mathematical expression evaluator, to learn how it works. This led to a deeper understanding of lexer/parser/interpreter, (pre/in/post)fix notations, stack machines.. Once I realized that what I was looking at was a kind of "virtual machine",…
Can you please recommend any resources for studying music theory ?
This might depend on your personal preference and approach, but I like books with high information density, with pieces that I can chew on for a long time - even if much of it is beyond my understanding at the beginning (or even at the end). Here are some of my favorites:
The Jazz Theory Book (Mark Levine)
Huge series of play-along books by Jamey Aebersold
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm (Godfried Toussaint)
Harmony (Walter Piston)
A Geometry of Music - Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Dmitri Tymoczko)
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (George Russell)
Augmented Scale Theory (Javier Arau)
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#169I'm not sure this relates entirely to tech but (to me at-least) it's a way of thinking better:
Algorithms to live by [0] - I am an engineer by training and product manager. I am always on the lookout to improve my knowledge of computer science. This book helps tremendously by showing a way to _look_ at problems. Certainly helps to have a better mental toolkit.
Inner Engineering - A Yogi's guide to joy [1] . Has really helped me get perspective on the issues that matter and how to lead a happier life.
I have been reading up on Physics (Richard Feynmann's books, obviously) and intend to continue this in the quest for better thinking. I do wish I had done this earlier in my life :-( but never too late!
[0]https://www.amazon.in/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decis...
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#170Haskell. 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.
Can you help me understand which kind of projects use Haskell language?
Do we have many long term jobs for Haskell developers?