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Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?

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Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?

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Post by dcminter »

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t wrote: post #13
TylerLives wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will this help your software engineering career?

Have you seen the women dancing bachata? It will surely boost his confidence off the charts.

Not because of the women, but learning a (different) partner dance boosted my self-confidence to a remarkable extent (so far as one can identify causes with these things).

It's actually not a silly idea.

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Post by mmarian »

ringofchaos wrote: post #14

I already know software engineering and can code web applications and use genai sdk in my apps. But I still can't easily figure out to deploy my apps to a VPS. So far I have manually set up my server and database. I want learn more on devops to deploy it using containers. This will enable me to host mutiple service in a VPS and I don't have to use PAAS solutions. I can also easily switch providers too.

I use CapRover with Hetzner, and it's been a breeze - half a day max. Don't remember the last time I deployed one of my services on managed infra.

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Post by boogerlad »

wappieslurkz wrote: post #23

Touch typing... I'm embarrassed to confess I'm still typing with just 4 fingers while keeping my eyes on the keyboard instead of the screen. Although I doubt it would require 100 hours to learn.

If you're going to learn it, use at least a split columnar keyboard and a non qwerty layout. Learning to touch type on a regular keyboard will likely worsen your health compared to your four finger hunt and peck due to the bad uncomfortable qwerty touch typing enforces. Think about the awful pinky curls and reaches. Ouch!

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Post by quesomaster9000 »

zabzonk wrote: post #15

Are we talking something like two weeks continuous, or an hour here and there?

That's a good question, what if it's 10 hours per year for 10 years?

In that case, I'd probably choose first-aid & the basics of emergency medicine via a couple of half-day or a full-day course per year.

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Post by jamesponddotco »

As a software engineer, probably JavaScript, as I focus on back-end and don’t have many front-end skills aside from a good hand at design.

In general, though, since I believe I’ll lose my job to AI, I’d like to learn and become an electrician.

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Post by thorin »

I'd probably do either the aws or azure architecture exams. I use both fairly often but have a bit of a gap on the infrastructure side. Alternatively I might do some actual building in serverless technologies rather than just drawing pictures, I'm at a large company so often developers are picking up the detailed tasks.

If I wanted to do something completely new I might dive into more detail around security/pen testing although I've noticed that a lot of companies doing this just seem to run a lot of off the shelf tools these days.

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