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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

lobo_tuerto wrote: post #119

Elixir and Phoenix! It's been a long time coming, but finally doing it now. After coming to grips with functional programming concepts (introductory in Ruby, more advanced in JavaScript) I decided to explore Elixir and what I found really surprised me in the right way. So I've decided to dedicate myself to become very fluent in it.

Excellent!

If I may self-promote a tiny bit, I've made over 100 free Elixir screencasts on YT over the past couple years, with over 98% upvotes. Helping people in your situation was why I started the channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nKbzZiRtY&list=PLFhQVxlaKQ...

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Post by harshs08 »

EnderMB wrote: post #138

I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…

I would be doing the same thing if I was in your situation. Even though LeetCode is a grind, there's no way around it if you are targeting big companies.

Good Luck!

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Post by danpli »

_prototype_ wrote: post #122

Web app development using clojure/clojurescript. Also learning clojure itself. So far its been an absolute joy/blast. I'm really wanting to use this professionally but the amount of jobs using this tech stack is incredibly non existent. Hopefully that changes soon

If you happen to get stuck on setting up a ClojureScript dev environment (like I did when starting out with the official docs), check out this write-up: https://danplisetsky.github.io/posts/2020-03-26-getting-star...

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by narag »

Music edition/production with Reaper:

https://www.reaper.fm/

They've been so kind to issue a temporary free license to help with the isolation. Their license model is very liberal anyway, but the gesture was well appreciated.

I own a Yamaha E363 keyboard and a Stratocaster, now I've bought a Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD soundcard and an Audio-Technica AT2020 mic to complete the budget home studio. Amazon.es is working faster actually. However I wish they kept orders bundled, instead of delivering them apiece.

There are many videos linked from Reaper website, but as a Spanish speaker I prefer this guy, that's absolutely great:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEkUr7EAx4LwIv2gp2pwvPQ

I'm also going to learn to airbrush. I've had the gear for some time, but now I'm seriously putting the time.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by thomas »

Been spending a lot of my time geeking out about fountain pens. Shocking amounts of information out there! Like this cartridge guide https://unsharpen.com/fountain-pen-cartridge-guide/

Also learning about email parsing. Not something I had thought about before but there is a lot to learn and lots of edge cases.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by hhsuey »

dorchadas wrote: post #164

Right now, I'm learning math. I met a PhD via Discord who is giving me problems to work and checking my solutions. It's been quite fun so far, working on Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra. I'm also doing baking; baked my first loaf of bread yesterday. Really interested to learn (and eat!) more. I'm tempted to pick up a cheap instrument and learn one as well, or delve back into Python some more. Or drawing. My main i…

My advice would be to define in multiple realms what you consider to be strongly focused, while both realizable and healthy in the long-term.

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Post by epoch_100 »

I've been spending a lot of my time learning about how to do RegEx at scale. It's a surprisingly fun problem!

The impetus has been a media monitoring side project[0] that I've been trying to get off the ground. I should probably spend more time learning about marketing, but I just keep coming back to RegEx optimization.

[0] https://lensant.com

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