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Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?

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Post by hsn915 »

JimtheCoder wrote: post #149
lupire wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't explain why OP was able to learn and do bullshit before.

Bullshit is much easier to learn and do when you are young. I am not sure why this is, but a shift does seem to be common once you start to hit your 30's. This is why it is much easier to recruit people in their 20's to work super hard on problems that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Once people get older, they don't really want to spend all week optimizing a tiny button on an Android app that no o…

When I was young I didn't realize what I'm working is bullshit. I thought it's the coolest shit in the world. I used to be excited about new technologies. Now when I hear about "new technology" I just roll my eyes, because in %99.99 of the cases, this "new technology" is anything but. It's just a permutation of an existing tech with trivial differences that I'm interested in learning.

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Post by dehrmann »

omnicognate wrote: post #51

Down in the commments [1], OP has said they had COVID earlier this year. There's a strong possibility that the symptom OP is experiencing is "brain fog" due to post-viral syndrome. As a PSA: People are recommending exercise in the comments. If you are experiencing symptoms like OP's, do not start vigorous exercise unless you're sure that post-viral syndrome is not the cause. If you have post-viral syndrome, return to…

Isolation can also cause some of these symptoms.

Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?

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Post by valbaca »

rawoke083600 wrote: post #35

I know exactly what you mean. As a counter point to the many "burnout answers" here which I completely agree with by the way. It could also be an example of "neuroplasticity" (hear me out). I'm 40 and been coding like it feels forever, I find it "relatively easy" to learn new frameworks or languages. What is much harder are new paradigms; example OOP vs functional. The last few months I've started to learn Clojure. M…

I'm in my early 30s, been coding since I was 16. I've worked in half a dozen languages and learned about a dozen "just for fun"...and damn, Clojure is hard.

It took me 3 very solid attempts over effectively three years for it to really click. It's honestly why I'll probably never bring it to work unless I absolutely need the thread-safety for something massive and complex that only experts will work on.

It's just not approachable.

But all that said, when it did click, it was worth it. Knowing that I have this powerful (almost magical and forbidden) knowledge is worth having really struggled with it.

In other words, I've been there. It's very tough. Stick with it (if you want) and I wish you the best.

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Post by hattori31 »

germs12 wrote: post #163
trevormcneal wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notice the fast decline in the last 20 years? Even active X was less crappy than the most well-polished actual react project, and active X was crap. Even java applets did more and in an easier way than modern frameworks and JS shit. One simple page, with login, logout, some search, and navigation nowadays require a few plugins, router, state management, lib for requests, lib to handle cookies, lib for JWT, etc...

Rails does 95% of this out of the box. Companies need to understand how much their poor technology decisions cost them...

> Rails does 95% of this out of the box

This is always my thoughts when I start a project with something else .

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Post by readonthegoapp »

HigherPlain wrote: post #307
TomSwirly wrote: post #197

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Everyone could live _modestly_, like middle class Cambodians but with better healthcare, yes. The issue is a tiny number of wildly consumptive rich people.

Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans you know! More difficult is to acknowledge the huge middle-class that has been created as a result of globalisation over the last decades.

blaming rich people for the problems they create makes one a nazi. got it.

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Post by zfrank »

Maybe you're not living according to your own definition of "success". You may have been motivated over the years to fit in to what you thought you were supposed to be doing, climbing a ladder, mastering the field, making more money, etc. And now you've reached a high wrung on that ladder and you're realizing it doesn't feel like what you thought "success" would feel like. You don't feel fulfilled, you don't feel genuinely interested. Maybe take a look inside and see if there's something else you'd rather be doing with your one wild and precious life.
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