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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by dceddia »

zuppy wrote: post #266
jakeinspace wrote: post #262

Getting back into regular guitar practice (mostly classical). Also trying to broaden my musical horizons a bit: playing around with some virtual synths and my analog synth. I'm currently shopping for a hollow body or solid body electric guitar and amp, since I want to start getting into blues guitar. Hoping that I can meld some of the music production/synth stuff with guitar practice by laying down some backing synth…

Just ordered my first guitar and audio interface yesterday. Any tips for really starting from 0? I will be looking for some online courses, but there’s so much information online that it is hard for me to find out which is good for absolute beginners and which is not.

There’s a book called The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar [0] that I found to be helpful. It’s not at all about playing specific songs or chords but entirely devoted to the mechanics of how to practice, how to hold the guitar, how to notice and relax tension, how to build speed, stuff like that. It’s a bit meta but I think it’d set you up with a good foundation.

[0] https://www.guitarprinciples.com/shop/the-principles-of-corr...

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Post by crimsonalucard »

perfectspiral wrote: post #505
crimsonalucard wrote: post #482

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This is the reason that software engineers need adult supervision. The fact that you think that modern infrastructure is physical and static displays a lack of experience. There is nothing static about modern cloud infrastructure. Note how I said "more physical nature," meaning that it's closer to physical but not completely physical. Either way, all abstractions suffer from leakage from the physical world. Data and…

>Honestly, you think I don't know about docker? You think I don't know about the cloud? "Infrastructure as code" oooh buzzwords, you're just using a shittier domain specific language to write something that you can also do with Regular code (such as python, no buzzwords needed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Let's stay on topic rather than make passive aggressive comments on my intelligence.

You're implying that my comments are stupid and arrogant. Prove it if you can, let's get to the bottom of whether or not "architects" is a worthless specialty or not. I think you know I'm right and the only thing you have left are personal comments on my intelligence.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by huntermeyer »

wasi0013 wrote: post #5

Exploring Elixir & Phoenix. Solved some AOC & exercism problems with it, and wrote a BF compiler. So far, enjoying every bit of it. The language itself is beautiful! Codes are available on my Github[1] account :). [1] https://github.com/wasi0013/

Here's a great course from Udemy using Elixir and Phoenix: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by [deleted] »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #482
scarface74 wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. This is the reason that software engineers need adult supervision. The fact that you think that modern infrastructure is physical and static displays a lack of experience. There is nothing static abou…

>This is the reason that software engineers need adult supervision. The fact that you think that modern infrastructure is physical and static displays a lack of experience. There is nothing static about modern cloud infrastructure. Note how I said "more physical nature," meaning that it's closer to physical but not completely physical. Either way, all abstractions suffer from leakage from the physical world. Data and…

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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by dctaflin »

Two things: German and Differential Geometry.

German is just because it's fun and it's my best second language by far, so I'd like to get fully fluent.

Differential Geometry is a diversion from working through Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, et al. I found I needed more math. Now it has kind of become an end in itself, however. It's the hardest thing I've studied since college (which was a long time ago).

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by scarface74 »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #512
perfectspiral wrote: post #505

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Honestly, you think I don't know about docker? You think I don't know about the cloud? "Infrastructure as code" oooh buzzwords, you're just using a shittier domain specific language to write something that you can also do with Regular code (such as python, no buzzwords needed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Let's stay on topic rather than make passive aggressive comments on my intelligence. You're implying that my comments are stupid and arrogant. Prove it if you can, let's get to the bottom of whether or not "architects" is a worthless specialty or not. I think you know I'm right and the only thing you have left are personal comments on my intelligence.

Honestly, I also had a long reply but I thought why bother? You haven’t gotten past the first step to knowing what you don’t know.

We all thought we were the smartest people in the room at one point, you’ll grow out of it too one day.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by thijsvandien »

koeng wrote: post #80

Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.

As a great opportunity to learn, volunteers behind SWI-Prolog will very soon organize another round of the online class they did back in 2018: https://twitter.com/SWI_Prolog/status/1246440776470536192
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