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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by spoiler »

echelon wrote: post #180
ericax wrote: post #78

World-building. After reading about storytelling, I realized that I'm as fascinated to a well-crafted world as good plots and characters. There's not much to read about, as a fiction world can contain as much detail as the real world. I'm spending time looking at the fiction worlds that I like and taking them apart. As an exercise, imagining places and races is also interesting. You'll be amazed by the amount of deta…

Would you be interested in doing that as a profession? Storytelling and world building is sorely underappreciated. I don't have much capital right now (I haven't raised - just personal savings), but I'd like to hire some folks to do this for my startup.

I've done a few world building workshop and magic-system designs[1] workshop in a "nerdy-community centre" a few years ago. The community and interest for this is generally pretty small.

I was thinking about doing an interactive online version now that we're all stuck inside.

[1]: Someone in another comment mentioned designing hard magic systems, but there doesn't a whole interesting world of different magic systems out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_magic_systems

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by straumat »

sfmau wrote: post #390
straumat wrote: post #265

I'm learning about trading bots. It allows me to learn new things about software développement (réactive streams forum example), mathematics, machine learning and deep learning I made it as a side project : https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot And i am writing a guide about what i learned : https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/

This is incredible - Thanks for sharing. Kudos for using the latest goodies provided in spring-boot. I had an older version but wasn't using reactive. Definitely, this looks promising.

Thanks a lot for your message :) I'm glad you like it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by straumat »

z023bs wrote: post #499
straumat wrote: post #265

I'm learning about trading bots. It allows me to learn new things about software développement (réactive streams forum example), mathematics, machine learning and deep learning I made it as a side project : https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot And i am writing a guide about what i learned : https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/

was your bot profitable? have you done real trading with it yet?

Hello :) Well, my bot in fact allows you to build your own strategy quickly so my bot does not include strategy. I'm starting to build a strategy with my bot and ta4j... using kucoin sandbox right now. For the moment, still learning, not yet profitable :)

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Post by scarface74 »

idoby wrote: post #606
perfectspiral wrote: post #505

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>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…

While I agree the pendulum goes both ways - for instance a AWS’s CDK builds templates using your language of choice. How can someone know the tradeoffs without a breadth of experience who thinks they can learn everything they need to know from Wikipedia? “There is no compression algorithm for experience.”

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Post by jfkebwjsbx »

tomxor wrote: post #325
jfkebwjsbx wrote: post #278

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Then you should be using X11 directly!

My goal is to attain a balance of least dependencies and boilerplate. From what I've read so far it seems that implementing xclient protocols directly would require considerably more boilerplate than using XCB, (and my understanding is that XCB is just that: a generic xclient implementation and nothing more). Please do elaborate if I'm wrong though! I would be delighted if it's possible to implement a simple subset m…

I meant using Xlib, the client library for X11, which is going to always be available if you are using X! You can of course implement the library parts yourself, but that is more boilerplate.

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Post by scarface74 »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #574
scarface74 wrote: post #517

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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.

>We all thought we were the smartest people in the room at one point, you’ll grow out of it too one day. Again with the insults. Why bother? Because you can learn and I can learn. I don't come here to trade insults. I come here to lay down the actual reality of what I see unimpeded by social norms. Yeah I'm sure I touched nerve here, but it's nothing personal, the internet allows me to talk about truths that are unco…

It isn’t intended to be an insult. This thread is veering way off topic but if you think you can learn everything that you need to know by reading a few blog posts and Wikipedia articles, what’s the point? Why ask on HN if as you say everything you need to know you can find from a few blog posts?

As software engineers, we tend to be told especially when we are young that we are all “smart people” (tm). We start to internalize it (believe our own bullshit). But the longer your career is, you realize that the world is full of “smart people” and that your coworkers also came up thinking they were the smartest people in the room.

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Post by wozmirek »

Gluing + painting models and miniatures! I've been bad at manual artistic things always, so I kinda combined my passion for the history of warfare with that thing I'm lacking and... here I am, gluing German tank models :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by scarface74 »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #584
scarface74 wrote: post #543

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Additionally your initial post implied that this is what you think, because this is what you study for interviews. Thousands of people study about how to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard and other needless leetCode to “work at a FAANG” even though they don’t do that everyday. What you study for an interview is unfortunately often only vaguely correlated with what you do on a job.

>What you study for an interview is unfortunately often only vaguely correlated with what you do on a job. Agreed 100%. Interviewing is hard. I would argue though that interviewing for "architecture" causes another issue. To give an analogy... it's like studying english for a programming job because english is used all the time on the job. Architecture is just too easy and too obvious and if you just happen to not kn…

Pro tip: anytime you think something is easy, be concerned. You haven’t learned it at the depth that you think you have. Keep living....

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Post by thomk »

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #634
liziwizi wrote: post #628

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most important is to come from a place of respect and to talk about the issue, not about the person. it should be about solving the problem together. never about pointing blame. when i was still stuck in relationships that didn't work, most discussions were always about "who did (or did not do) what and why that was terrible". these days we talk about what problems we face, what we tried, how they didn't work and ask…

First - this is an amazing comment! Solid, concise, and really highlights the important stuff. John Gottman has a number of books on this topic and I'd highly recommend them.

Thank you for mentioning John Gottman this looks helpful.
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