Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

Post by leke » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:51 AM UTC

I was interested in Elixir and Phoenix, but as I am working as a PHP dev (with JS for the frontend), I decided to only learn technologies that I might one day use in my workplace.

So I'm learning Dart and Flutter. Flutter (which uses Dart), now has some full support for web in its latest version, so it's a real possibility I might get to propose we create some front end parts of our app in Flutter web, and even suggest we adopt it for the mobile version of our product.

We are going to do some kind of mobile version, but are currently thinking about a PWA using either React or Vue.

Apart from that, I really need to improve my knowledge of PHP design patterns.

Post by kragen » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

squintychino wrote: post #358

kragen wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yesterday I wrote a simplified outline of the orthodox economic account of the factors of production, how they relate to the historical process of industrialization, and how these relate to market incentives and cross-border capital flows, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639177 . The post is downvoted to -4 and has no responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502867 , where I explained some basic er…

I think you may be expecting a little too much from people. While this site and its comment section is a little more mature than say, reddit (full of memes and jokes for the most part), it's also not at a level of something like a professional conference full of PhD's where your comments will be received at the same level as they are given. From your comments you seem like a very learned individual, possibly with muc…

> Some comments may come off as racist or biased, while all you're trying to do is engage in discussion and present a different viewpoint.

At the point where it "may come off as racist or biased" for me to say that many Chinese people who grew up in China think the Chinese government is good and will be offended by attempts to demonize it, we've entered into some kind of toxic mental pathology that goes far beyond questions of whether I'm pretentious (I guess I am) or off-putting (undoubtedly at times, perhaps always), or whether HN is "something like a professional conference." God, let's hope that never happens!

HN can avoid being degraded into a professional conference without becoming the Salem witch trials. Those aren't the only two alternatives!

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