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Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
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Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#42If you are doing mainstream frontend work and haven't yet moved to TypeScript, that would be my first recommendation.
I'm just getting into frontend. Any recommended typescript courses/material?
At some point a few years ago I learned a lot from Maximilian Schwartzmuller on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/user/maximilian-schwarzmuller/).
Edit: I think I watched both the Angular course (after having used Angular for a while) and the React with TypeScript course (at the time I transitioned to React).
And with Udemy for the last few years, one can always just wait a few days and get the course at 90% off.
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#43Terraform, being Cloud-agnostic, low level programming
Cloud agnostic? Not really. All the resources are cloud specific. You can't configure anything of any complexity without knowing details about your specific provider. Low level? It's about as far from "low level" as you can get. I would barely call it a programming language. That being said, I do think it is a worthwhile skill to learn.
You're right Terraform is not cloud-agnostic in terms of resources, but I'd argue you wouldn't really want a truly cloud-agnostic configurator at the resource level as it would be far too leaky an abstraction to have any reliable value. On the other hand, in terms of a cloud configuration system as a whole, Terraform's state management and sequencing resolution is provider agnostic, which I think makes it a much better investment than any cloud-specific orchestration system.
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#44Open Ai and similar
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#45I think systems thinking is needed more than ever. There are way too many myopic decisions being made all across the board. For specific programming languages, I think Elixir is a great investment. Edit: Some systems reading if anyone is curious: * Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows * Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer. I also recommend anything by Stafford Beer. * Anything by Christopher Alexander * Systems T…
Also, Alan Kay has been speaking and writing on it recently, as in https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf.
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#46I think this is just the wrong way to go about learning things. There are 3 things to learn at any given time: 1. That which never changes i.e. humans, yourself and others 2. What you need to know to succeed right now i.e. deeper in your current tools and systems, or those you'll need to use next month 3. Whatever intrigues you. Maybe this is what you're asking: what's new to be intrigued by? To the latter, I would s…
What's the best way to learn machine learning without a real GPU or a budget for cloud time? There's lots of demos and stuff that can run on low end CPUs, but is that close enough in terms of skill to what you'd actually be doing on the job to be worth it?
I think you can go far quite cheaply. Get your code working on smaller/toy models, and then when you want to test it on larger ones you can ship it over to a machine at one of the cheaper providers (vast.ai/jarvislabs etc) to give it a run before pausing/killing the machine.
I've been porting Stable Diffusion (which isn't a small model) over to Elixir and as part of doing that have been starting/stopping my jarvislabs machine when I start/stop building. I've been spending about $1/day without trying to be efficient.
Also, fast.ai is a great resource for learning ML, I highly recommend it.
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#47I think this is just the wrong way to go about learning things. There are 3 things to learn at any given time: 1. That which never changes i.e. humans, yourself and others 2. What you need to know to succeed right now i.e. deeper in your current tools and systems, or those you'll need to use next month 3. Whatever intrigues you. Maybe this is what you're asking: what's new to be intrigued by? To the latter, I would s…
For 1. specifically, I like this quote from Jeff Bezos: > I very frequently get the question: "What's going to change in the next 10 years?" And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: "What's not going to change in the next 10 years?" And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two -- because you can build a business strate…
Betting on things that never change (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289541 (2021)
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#48I think systems thinking is needed more than ever. There are way too many myopic decisions being made all across the board. For specific programming languages, I think Elixir is a great investment. Edit: Some systems reading if anyone is curious: * Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows * Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer. I also recommend anything by Stafford Beer. * Anything by Christopher Alexander * Systems T…
Why do you think that Elixir is a great investment?
Re: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
#49Not so much a skill but I'm curious to see where the low-code scene goes and will be following it closely.
I feel like a low-code platform that can be stood up on infrastructure (cloud or otherwise) owned by a company could provide a lot of value. Many companies and especially local governments have unique infrastructure requirements that make using a random website for a business function a non-starter. If they could bring a properly supported low-code platform to their infrastructure i could see that being super productive for a lot of the simple use cases they encounter.
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#50I'm going to try and learn Rust (started and failed several times already), probably by building something with actix-web
My goal was to explore and learn Rust and/or Go in 2022... Not sure the remaining 2 weeks will cut it, so I'll have to carry the goal into 2023.