Ask HN: What are you learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by Farbklex » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 6:47 AM UTC

strategarius wrote: post #438

Currently I'm learning video editing on Davinci Resolve. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ I collect examples of advanced C++. Noticed the lack of educational content at this subject, and planning a short course, something like "Exceptional C++" style, but on video. In our distributed team we have a practice to make video presentations for colleagues, so I have experience of delivering visual…

Video editing is a very usefull skill. It's rewarding to be able to quickly trim, stitch and edit some clips and maybe throw in some effects here and there.

Davinci Resolve is a surprisingly good tool and for a non-professional it would be my no. 1 recommendation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by bee123 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 6:48 AM UTC

thatwhinyboi wrote: post #582

mikro wrote: post #175

I am learning game development in Godot, specifically with the intention of making an Oculus Quest VR game. I just finished the initial tutorial yesterday: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/getting_started/step_by_... Alongside that, I am also watching Disney's Imagineering-in-a-Box, which describes how they develop lands and rides for their theme parks: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/03/enjoy-a-one-o.…

I'm learning Godot too. Although, my pace of learning is very slow, since I am also working from home. So I mostly learn on weekends or sometimes, for an hour at the end of the day. I started from this link: http://www.alexhoratio.co.uk/search/label/gitting%20gud%20at... These look good too: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/an0iq5/godot_tutoria...

thank you for these links, its really helpful bro

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by idoby » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 6:50 AM UTC

tomxor wrote: post #10

... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially e…

Why would I laugh?

I've done a lot of C programming over the years and I still consider it one of the most elegant languages I've had the opportunity to work with. With the right skillset, you can be as productive as a programmer of any other language or system.

And it's great to see where some of the things we take for granted in programming, come from.

If you want to draw pixels, give Cairo a try. It's fun to use!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by tomduncalf » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 6:54 AM UTC

Started working through the Coursera Machine Learning course By Andrew Ng. I’ve always wanted to understand ML better, and this seemed like the ideal opportunity to actually do it, especially as I might have some work coming up using ML.

So far, I’m very impressed, very clear presentation style and he does a good job of explaining the fundamentals and maths (which is good as I’m pretty rusty at maths!) while still keeping it fairly concise - my main issue with learning from video is often that it “waffles” a lot and I could get the same knowledge from text much quicker, but it doesn’t feel like that here.

I may switch to the deep learning specialisation or try to get my hands dirty with a more hands-on course after I understand the basic concepts but we will see, I’m actually enjoying relearning some maths more than I expected to!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by ublaze » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 6:55 AM UTC

edwinyzh wrote: post #593

ublaze wrote: post #586

I'm learning how to do web development again. I've only been working on infrastructure tools/services at my job, and I'm re-learning concepts like how to authenticate users, and my first time seriously using React, Django and Typescript. My project is a hosted blog platform where you can edit a Google doc & publish it as a blog post, which is useful for publishing rich blog posts with tables, while keeping features l…

Hey! Mine ( https://docxmanager.com ) is similar but for Microsoft Word on Windows :)

Super cool! That looks professional. I have a landing page up for people interested in the idea and want updates - https://simpleblog.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by idoby » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 7:01 AM UTC

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

Well, using general Turing-complete code languages for infra and config vs specialized templates/languages is a legit point of contention in the industry right now, although judging by the style, GP isn't considering the pros and cons of each approach, which include:

* Forcing users to learn a specialized language vs reusing knowledge of a general purpose language

* Inevitable Turing-completeness creep and increasing complexity in specialized languages

* Complexity and difficulty of reasoning about general purpose code (and analyzability)

So GP does have a point. He/she is just not making it very well, I think.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by shivekkhurana » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

niyazpk wrote: post #599

shivekkhurana wrote: post #464

I have lost my contract as a developer and am helping a non-profit [1] streamline their operations. The organization aims to provide food and heath kits to the marginalized. We have already distributed over 600 kits and are on track to reach a 1000 in this week. Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month. I was introduced to them by a friend who was helping them build an open platform [2], open in the…

>> For just ₹750, our food and wellness kit can feed a family for a whole month. 750 INR = 9.84 USD It would be nice if you can make it easy to provide donations from outside India.

We are working on that!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by nogridbag » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 7:06 AM UTC

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #541

troxwalt wrote: post #447

How to take care of a toddler from 5 AM - 8 PM while trying to manage work and phone calls. Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep.

>Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep. Try to take a ~30 minute nap in the evening somewhere that is quiet and comfortable but not the bed you sleep in. 4 hours isn't sustainable for long, but I've found a nap in the evening is sufficient to let me run effectively on 5-6 hours. I say somewhere that isn't your bed because I've found tha…

I'm in the same boat as the parent poster. Honestly it's hard to even find 30 minutes of free time and I only have one toddler. I'm the play person and my wife works multiple jobs (remote) so she's on calls most of the day. Seems the rest of our free time is is spent either cleaning or cooking.

If by any chance I do have time the only place to sleep that's not my bed is the floor. We sold all of our furniture and moved during the middle of this pandemic and all the dang furniture stores are closed!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by pyr0hu » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 7:06 AM UTC

Haven't been able to do some graphics programming with OpenGL so I tried to dust off my knowledge about that and started putting together a simple 3d scene with user inputs, animations, sprites, etc. To increase the fun, I also constrained myself to C99.

I really really like the graphical style of Pokemon Black (3d environment with 2d sprites) so I want to replicate that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by wexomania » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC

I am currently learning about Greedy Meshing and voxel rendering / editing. I want to make games with my nieces, nephews and younger siblings, and are currently working on a voxel editor / drawing tool, so that they can make their own characters and items for the games without having to learn 3d modeling and animation.