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Ask HN: What are you learning?
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#402I'm learning Mandarin and Web Development
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#403GCP and Kubernetes so I am better versed in talking a client out of using it.
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Oooh! Downvotes instead of answers. That is extremely helpful, thanks. So all the posts here about this BS are shills working for some marketing company pushing their shit. It's not anything real since today is the first time it's been mentioned here. Typical marketing Yale imbecile tactic is use robot army downvotes to make people who ask WTF is this seem like they are out of the loop. Reality is LeetCode is absolut…
I'm sure you're suffering in your world over there and I hope you're okay.
I'm doing great. I have a garden growing in size each day. I am taking a quinine derivative. I bought plenty of toilet paper and supplies starting back in late January. I posted about doing regressions on early factual and reliable Chinese data and was downvoted and rebuked by ignorant racist anti-asian people who are now holed up and desperate and lashing out. My chances of survival or not are not quite as bad as most others following the globalist stock scam cult.
I tried to get the word out using scientific and factual information, to save lives. Alas this is useless to the HN crowd. I even got flagged for saying weeks ago that all science shows that MASKS WORK. This statement of absolute scientific fact is anathema to the cultist thinking of HN fanatacists and cultists and their priest defenders like dang who will be responsible for the deaths of millions and is already responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands. Hey thanks guys. Hope this is satisfying to you to cause all this mass death by promoting ignorance.
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#405Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart an…
this is so cool, I've been meaning to get a bass guitar and start learning, but I'm always busy doing something else.
Pick one up! There’s no time like the present :) It’s a long-term learning thing anyway, definitely one of those “best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago” things.
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#406I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…
I use to hate the idea of studying leetCode and I still refuse to do it. But then I realized how hypocritical I was being considering all of the time I’ve spent “grinding architecture and infrastructure”, reading white papers and studying videos on TOGAF so I could talk the talk on an “Enterprise Architect” or a “Digital Transformation Consultant”. But if I have to play a game to get the next salary upgrade after I t…
Architecture is way easier than algorithms. I'm actually the opposite. I hate the idea that people are studying intensely for architecture because it just takes reading the wikipedia summary to get the main point.
Architects are usually just managers who are ex-engineers and have been out of the front lines for so long that they aren't technical enough to get back into coding. This is fine, but the idea that "architecture" is some kind of talent is absurd. Anyone can study a blog article about the latest architecture buzzword and understand the concepts front to back. Not to mention that the more physical nature of architecture makes it less flexible than code itself so "architectural" patterns are, as a result, significantly less abstract and complex than coding patterns/algorithms.
The true difference in ability is measured by who can actually Build an architecture, and usually its developers who build it, while architects (mostly) just talk about it.
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#407I wanted to do some simple tabulations on COVID19 data so I did some work with Excel and public datasets. Never used Power Query before, so learned that.
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#408Started learning more about AR. Trying to make an app for people to practice social distancing using AR. Basically to visualize how far 1-2m away is .
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#409I'm learning how to level up my more fundamental life skills: nutrition, exercise, and character. Character I'm learning through the study of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which I'm working through with a friend. For exercise, I'm enjoying learning a safe kettlebell program with the book Simple and Sinister . With nutrition, I'm just trying to cook/prepare all my own meals while keeping the ingredients heal…
I have been pursuing similar goals. Except for exercise I've been learning rope dart and also have the goal of being more clean and being better at organizing my spaces. I have also found that focusing on the fundamentals has done wonders for my health, energy levels, and mood. I wish I had taken time to figure this stuff out better years ago.
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#410Trying to develop (ha) some web development skills and I was studying interview questions. I've never done anything web-related outside of making API calls, so I'm reading "The Little ASP.NET Core Book" by Nate Barbettini. I appreciate that the author is focusing on presenting the things one needs to know to do $"{foo}" so far, other materials are either too wordy or are really childish/tasteless. I started doing Lee…
For ASP.NET Core check out Pluralsight. Got me up to speed in 2 weeks.