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Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
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#43I'm learning how to turn my life around. Much harder than OOP, believe me.
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#44Philosophy, Business/startups/entrepreneurship, psychology and how to actually get things done (not the framework, in general)/acomplish goals and not giving up in the try
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#45I’m learning how to interview well and face rejection. I’m graduating this year and I’ve been rejected at the final stage from numerous “big 5” companies and some startups, and it’s hard to keep going, but I know that grit is important, so I’m learning :)
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#46A lot. I'm in college, so Stats, Japanese, Communication, and History there. But that's just the surface. I'm also reading a lot of eBooks (mostly nonfiction books: Deep Work, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Models: Attracting Women through Honesty.) I also want to read Wilson's new translation of The Odyssey. Finally, I just realized I had feelings for a friend of mine when she started dating someone else. I de…
If you are reading Mark Manson I would also suggest: As You Are by Nick Sparks Good on you for being honest with how you felt, it's something I still struggle with.
Yeah, +1 for openly sharing challenging things. Working on that too.
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#48Elixir and OTP. Really enjoying it and writing some blog posts about it. My latest [1] was an experiment in creating my own simple supervisor. I am working my way up to having an Elixir application spread across many containers where the processes can pass messages to processes in other containers. [1] https://medium.com/@tylerpachal/let-it-crash-creating-an-exa...
What is OTP?
OTP comes from Erlang (which Elixir is built on) and it is a framework that is used for creating distributed applications (it originally stood for Open Telecom Platform). It has databases, a test framework, and debugging tools to help.
Down in Elixir land you mainly see it in the form of GenServer (generic servers that are essentially actors) and Supervisors for supervising those GenServer workers and other tasks/processes/
Re: Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
#49Elixir and OTP. Really enjoying it and writing some blog posts about it. My latest [1] was an experiment in creating my own simple supervisor. I am working my way up to having an Elixir application spread across many containers where the processes can pass messages to processes in other containers. [1] https://medium.com/@tylerpachal/let-it-crash-creating-an-exa...
What is OTP?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
#50A lot. I'm in college, so Stats, Japanese, Communication, and History there. But that's just the surface. I'm also reading a lot of eBooks (mostly nonfiction books: Deep Work, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Models: Attracting Women through Honesty.) I also want to read Wilson's new translation of The Odyssey. Finally, I just realized I had feelings for a friend of mine when she started dating someone else. I de…
If you are reading Mark Manson I would also suggest: As You Are by Nick Sparks Good on you for being honest with how you felt, it's something I still struggle with.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I’ll check it out.
Yeah, it’s a goal of mine to be both confident and vulnerable, and being honest with myself and other people is how I do that.