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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Diving deeper into Rust. It strikes me how this language is exactly what I want in the future. From building Webapps/services (good libs/frameworks will arise) to codify algorithms as efficient as possible, and so on.

I have some libraries that I tend to rewrite for every new language I learn, but once I wrote something in Rust, its written once and for all, highly efficient and considerably safe, and I can use it from all other languages (node, elixir, ruby, ...).

And I have high hopes for webassembly to replace the brittle and overcomplicated frontend stuff in the next years, Rust should be the ideal candidate to write enterprisey stuff which must not fail.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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I want to be more socially active in 2017. I graduated in 2013 , got a dev job and since then been living in a virtual world w/o any interaction whatsoever with people outside of professional environment. In 2017, I want to break this trance, get to know the real world and probably get a girlfriend. :)

Getting into some sort of sports is great for this, with obvious other benefits.

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I'd like to go even more back to the fundamentals. Hopefully finishing SICP, building a JavaScript interpreter/compiler and other fun experiments to get a better understanding of the foundation that we're building everything on top of today.

Then "Software Foundations" may be of interest: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html

It covers the foundation of functional languages with the simply typed lambda calculus, and also the principles of formal specifications and proofs. It's suitable for self learning, but is a significant effort so you need to have a strong interest in these topics and be ok with a very formal approach to software.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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I'm finishing up the CFA (hopefully), and when I'm done I want to expirement with learning how to teach motivated learners better. I've come to the conclusion that most resources aren't that good for quick learning. It may simply be human (my) limitations, but I suspect that there are better, unexplored ways. I also think they may not be monotizable, but that is ok. I just want to finish the cfa in June and in my fre…

You could reach more people with what you know by blogging. Have you considered doing this?

I'm assuming you already work in a firm managing investments and will likely have little to no free time already.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

#369
What: learn not to be so much caught up in thoughts about whatever happens or will happen - which in turn generates terrible anxiety and self-fulfilling prophecies - and to enjoy the present moment.

How: socialize, be more outgoing about who I am, get back into sports and reach back to friends I've been letting down, build new relationships, trust people again. Just keep on building, doing and enjoying things for what they are, not what they might fail to be.

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Confidence - never thought it would be an issue when you're leading your own company. I quit a great job on the east coast in 2012, went to grad school and moved to Silicon Valley after graduation (2014) to work on my startup. I've been learning and building constantly for the past 4 years. I would rather my work speak for me, so I don't draw any attention to what I'm doing or to myself until I have great results to…

My tip for selling a product you are perhaps too close to is to explain it to ordinary people.

I mean any random person, your Dad or Grandmother. Work out in layman's terms what problems your products solves, and how it is going to be a business.

Investors and even customers may not be at all interested in how GO is very quick at garbage collection...They want to know how your product will make them richer. Practice on laymen, practice a lot

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