Ask HN: What are you learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by blinkingled » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

Trying to learn some oratory and/or one on one communication skills and not having much of a clue where to start!

My problems - I feel like I fail to quickly assess the other person and fail to adjust my communication - so I am either way too technical in the lingo or way too much of a layman talk that makes it feel like I am being insincere!

I also fail to give up the 'problem solving' angle in communication - like I have to remind myself constantly that communication is rarely transactional or a means to an end.

I am realizing what I am missing is that I fail to take interest in other people and their viewpoints and with some concrete strategies and practice I could do better.

It's never been a problem as such - the few times it was a problem I managed to retry and resolve, but I want to bring joy and ease into my in-person communications.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by davidwparker » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:45 PM UTC

1. Woodworking / carpentry. Making custom slide out shelves for our pantry. 2. Flutter. Love it. 3. Cooking (I know how to cook already, but want to level up)- via Masterclass and a few books.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by maxioatic » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:45 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #60

p2detar wrote: post #2

I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.

Checkout the work of Alex Edwards [0] and his book on Go [1]. Great guy and he even helped me with a consulting project. [0] https://alexedwards.net [1] https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/

I bought his Let's Go book last week. Pretty good so far and if you're building a web app, I'll throw my recommendation in too.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by tuckerpo » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:45 PM UTC

I bought a used copy of the old dragon compiler book (written by Aho from Bell Labs and some others). Would like to take a crack at a C compiler.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by gerdesj » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

I'm learning how to keep my employees interested.

We are a small IT consultancy, 20 years books and always had three months loot in the bank just in case. I could never have predicted this thing but I've always wanted to sleep at night so insisted on a war chest. Damn I'm boring but as it turns out boring is quite handy now. We have furloughed (UK) a few troops. We top up the extra 20%.

The calls on the helpdesk are decreasing but at some point I will need to find more work for the kids. I see a major programme of updates in the near future. BIOS, switches etc etc etc ad nauseam. If it fails to move it will be updated. We do rather a lot of that anyway but to ensure that contracts are fulfilled, we need to be seen to be doing something.

Any other employers here like to pitch in (be careful for obvious reasons)?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by tunesmith » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

From being an enterprise programmer, I'm try to learn how to scale back and deploy single-author websites to prod. At work we do modern stuff, but I've got this 12-year-old LAMP website, a collaborative creative writing site, that I'm deploying to prod just by logging in to the linode and doing git fetch / git pull. It feels so wrong but it's so easy. Still too paranoid to make the site public though, for now it's just me and my friends.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by spurgu » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

Morse code. Started today by learning the alphabet in half an hour using a Google creative project[0] and quickly realized the challenge will be thinking in the sound/rhythm of the letters (instantly hearing/deciphering them) so I found a video[1] and then watched another video[1] which confirmed my hunch that it's better to focus on the sound than the notation.

Now I have GBoard w/ morse as my default keyboard on the mobile. Works well enough for short messages (and typing in URLs with autocomplete).

Edit: And I've been learning Spanish for months already so that's still active.

[0] https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qQZ92onhU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tPkb98Fkk

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by cortesoft » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

I am learning that I couldn't cut it as a stay at home parent.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by behnamoh » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

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…

I'm curious, how could someone find a PhD/researcher on Discord, esp. for this kind of purpose?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by paladin314159 » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

sunsetSamurai wrote: post #212

I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets,…

I built kfchess.com (https://github.com/paladin8/kfchess), which might be a helpful reference. It's by no means amazing code (I hacked it together quickly in my spare time), but it uses https://github.com/socketio/socket.io for real-time client-server communication. It's a relatively simple library to build on top of.

As for the backend, I would recommend whatever you're most familiar with. It doesn't make that much of a difference and you'll be way more productive in a language you know.

Love the idea of a Shogi site by the way!