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Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by racktash »

rramadass wrote: post #47
racktash wrote: post #6

Cloud computing (especially AWS). I've spent the last decade working on application software and am increasing worried how many jobs expect cloud experience these days as I have none.

If you are just starting out, i highly recommend Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering by Ian Foster et al. - https://cloud4scieng.org/ It gives a comprehensive overview of the Cloud Architecture, the various pieces involved and how they all work together. The whole "Cloud Technologies" field is quite vast and overwhelming and this book provides a nice comprehensible roadmap.

Thanks so much for this. I've been finding it hard to separate useful resources from the salesy/hypefilled pieces so recommendations like this are very helpful.

I've never had a problem with programming languages – I'd pick up a book, do the exercises, play around with the language and get a feel – but I find "cloud" hard to get into for some reason.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by TheChaplain »

I don't know if it counts, but actually I will improve my physical skills.

Learning to lift heavy, improve balance and coordination.

In addition to that I want to become much better with my motorcycle handling in such as slow speed, dodging, balance etc.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by dustincoates »

swagmoose wrote: post #14

1) SQL As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects. 2) Woodworking After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).

I would love to pick something up off screen this year as well. When I was a kid, I would hang out with my grandfather in his shop, melting and casting metal. But if I wanted to pick that up now, I'm not even sure where or how I could. Most classes are about smithing, which isn't exactly what I want.

So, short of finding a time machine to go back to 1992, I suppose I'll figure out how to start on this goal.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by ewuhic »

mbork_pl wrote: post #9
HellDunkel wrote: post #7

Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp

Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)

Any chance to achieve similar results with goold old (new) PowerPoint?

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by rramadass »

racktash wrote: post #51
rramadass wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are just starting out, i highly recommend Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering by Ian Foster et al. - https://cloud4scieng.org/ It gives a comprehensive overview of the Cloud Architecture, the various pieces involved and how they all work together. The whole "Cloud Technologies" field is quite vast and overwhelming and this book provides a nice comprehensible roadmap.

Thanks so much for this. I've been finding it hard to separate useful resources from the salesy/hypefilled pieces so recommendations like this are very helpful. I've never had a problem with programming languages – I'd pick up a book, do the exercises, play around with the language and get a feel – but I find "cloud" hard to get into for some reason.

> but I find "cloud" hard to get into for some reason

This is because there are too many moving pieces in the System. Add the domain jargon and intentional marketing/sales obfuscation and everything becomes overwhelming. I have a background in Applications/Networking/Protocols and i still find the whole "Cloud" domain confusing/difficult. After doing some research i came across this book which was very helpful for my own study. It gives you the overall "big picture view" along with some short code/usage snippets for each component. You can then followup with specific AWS/GCP/Azure books as needed.

You should also study Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications along with this - https://dataintensive.net/

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by perihelions »

- Reading math textbooks effectively. Want to revisit postgraduate math, just as a goal in itself, with no specific endpoint; more productively this time around, with less yak-shaving and distraction. And, not just going through the motions of solving exercises, but getting better at thinking, formulating new ideas from scratch, and applying/translating things to computational software

- Profiling and optimizing software. To get better at using tools and efficient workflows, and to get better intuition, to be more efficient at finding low-hanging fruit

- In support of these goals: time management, and figuring how to live correctly, and avoid time-wasting neurotransmitter traps such as HN

- Skateboarding

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by aviandnuskii »

I want to level up my coding and work on really complex software projects. Gems like puma and async (ruby gems). I also want to learn more about compilers and more about the computer.

My plan is to read SICP and also start contributing to these projects that I mentioned above.

Re: Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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Post by thomashabets2 »

Now that I have a working GNU Radio-like base framework in Rust, I want to improve my understanding of DSP by implementing it.

Like my current question, what actually is the best way to "smoothen" the feedback loop in clock recovery? PID, IIR, FIR? And why?

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/rustradio

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