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Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by jononor »

em-bee wrote: post #138
jononor wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you speedrunning life?

what are you trying to suggest? that they are doing to much already? and if they were to do less they would have time? wouldn't that then lead to the same situation, that they would like to work on some of the things they are working on now but could not because of lack of time? also we don't choose all our commitments. family, work, friends, etc are commitments we can't just give up. it comes down to choice and prio…

Just a quick prompt for reflection. I do not suggest anything how people actually live their lives. But many have said that they got caught up in being too busy to actually enjoy life. Don't fall into that by accident!

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by metabro »

giantg2 wrote: post #156

"What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?" A job where I can support my family and feel valued/respected. I think that would be cool.

Without knowing specifics like your current skillset, experience, location, income requirements it’s hard to provide advice.

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by jicea »

zikani_03 wrote: post #94

On the development side, I feel like I just don't have the "brain" for Rust even though I have built a couple of useful things with it and have also contributed to an open source project (checkout hurl.dev, great tool!) - I would love to get into low level OS development, VMMs and microVMs . It's probably just an issue of effort Outside of programming, I'd like to get into welding so I can make some things. I recentl…

Hi, maintainer of Hurl [1] here.

We're trying to write "simple" Rust as far as we can, without going into too much optimisation: very little lifetime usage, no async stuff (just classic multi-thread directly from the last sample of the Rust book), liberal usage of clone, no macros, reusing crates for C libcurl and libxml binding, limiting dependencies. We could certainly gain a lot of performances but with this first simple approach, the binary is already "fast"... The only advice I would give for someone going into Rust is to not try to optimise everything from the start to get a first "feeling" of the language.

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by giantg2 »

metabro wrote: post #233
giantg2 wrote: post #156

"What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?" A job where I can support my family and feel valued/respected. I think that would be cool.

Without knowing specifics like your current skillset, experience, location, income requirements it’s hard to provide advice.

I've already accepted that it won't happen.

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by abhiyerra »

noisy_boy wrote: post #168

I want to help small businesses in my area, those who want it, with technology solutions that can improve things (and in-turn learn about the needs of real small businesses). I can pretty much do full-stack (ranging from something basic that improves things for them to something elaborate like backend, UI, AWS, K8S etc). However, I don't have any idea how to identify customers, approach them, price my work fairly, de…

Most small businesses don’t need UI, etc. They need lots of integration work though. Like my friend who has a jewelry business needed help integrating Etsy orders to Asana which we did using Zapier.

So lot less custom code and more linking things software focused on their specific needs.

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by jonjacky »

avmich wrote: post #75
inhumantsar wrote: post #4

CPU design

For a very early beginning take a look here - https://github.com/cpldcpu/MCPU .

This is quite cool. The CPU has only four instructions, which can be applied to immediate arguments or run in sequence to get six more, which can then be used to write real programs!

Re: Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

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Post by wrboyce »

ManlyBread wrote: post #226

Reverse engineering. Each time I start I seem to get overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge required, then I decide to check if these skills might be useful in getting a better paid job... and there just doesn't seem to be that much jobs involving these skills, neither in my area nor remotely. And my motivation instantly evaporates because learning all that stuff just to sometimes poke around in some weird program.

I love reverse engineering, but it is strictly a hobby (fortunately? Unfortunately? Honestly I’m not sure!).

Anyway, I’d heartily recommend Microcorruption[1]. It’s really good fun, uses a fairly simply assembly flavour (msp430), and introduces new concepts at a nice cadence.

Shameless plug: I’ve written up a bunch of the solutions in “tutorial form” on my blog[2], but I am incredibly slow at getting new posts out (although I do have the next ~4 levels in nearly-complete drafts).

[1]: https://microcorruption.com/

[2]: https://lovesexsecretgod.com/

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