Making art with After Effects. If I really get motivated I'll move my experience into doing Interaction design with Lottie and bodymovin, but for now it's just a nice way to blow off steam during this difficult time.
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#682I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This is something of an experiment. Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I…
You might be interested in this chap's work. He came to prominence after his construction of a home was covered on a TV programme here in the UK. The link here is about that house - and the TV programme is well worth watching, too - and the rest of the site is about eco-building etc.
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#683I'm "learning"(calling functions) opencv(using cv2 with python3) to find the coordinates of a string inside image.
Even though it's useless in the industry: https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/axvjfb/do_i...
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#684Learning probability for strong foundation in ML. The books i am following are
"First course in probability by Sheldon Ross" and
"Probability and Statistics" Michael J. Evans and Je¤rey S. Rosenthal
This is the first time i am studying based on the topics rather than following syllabus. I wanted to understand covariance for calculating similar interest b/w users to suggest the posts viewed by a user in the app i am developing. This took me down the rabbit hole and forced to learn everything required to define covariance. Its talking a lot of time but i feel it's worth it because now i have a strong foundation. Also its nice to follow more than one book because i have no attachment to any of the books. When in college i used to get attached to my notes or the first text book i follow, but studying a topic from many books have no attachment to either and its liberating.
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#685how to cut my own hair :$
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#686Rails. And also presentation skills by recording myself to camera, replaying and repeating.
I'm about 40 hours into learning Rails myself, and talk about hitting wall. Learning from home on your own with no mentor is brutal, especially since there is a very specific thing I am trying to do, so the basic TODO apps just don't cut it.
Rails is actually quite hard in my opinion. I was working through "Getting Started with Rails" where you make a blog with posts they call articles and counting the number of ways the word article pops up in code. I'm up to 14 now, Article, article, articles, Articles @articles, articles_path etc, some of which you type in and some which are magically generated and pluralized, singalized, lower cased or whatever. I guess experienced rails devs know all that stuff backwards but there's a lot of not very obvious things to get your head around.
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#687Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.”
You don't even know how much experience I have. I'm saying architecture patterns can be learned from Wikipedia not 'everything'.
A devops configuration language (outside the domain of architecture) is not included in this category. Please don't be manipulative and please do not lie.
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#688Learning about recommender systems both for work-related activities and personal interest. I see a lot of people learning hard mathematics or physics concepts. This is somewhat related to machine learning but also has daily-life implications as it gives some insight into how these social media platforms shape their algorithms for building the social feeds or Netflix recommendations for example :)
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#689I really think the idea of constantly learning (something new) is pushed too much in our field. I think we should encourage mastery in fewer topics rather than shallow superficial knowledge of lots of things.
It's a balance I know, and we shouldn't be super focused especially early on in our careers. But at my current job we have a huge tech stack and a tiny team, I am constantly learning, but never in any depth, just enough to solve the last bug and then change to something different. It feels very like a very unproductive way of working. Very little of the new tech feels like it actually helps. Kubernetes while we don't actually need to scale for the foreseeable future. NoSQl when we don't actually need to scale. Asynch web servers when synchronous would be fine. A React monstrosity on our frontend, when server side rendering would be perfectly functional for the problems we are trying to solve. Google cloud - fair enough we actually do need that one or something equivalent.
Edit: On looking through the other answers I see that a significant number are not tech related which is refreshing to see.
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>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 in…
It's an insult drenched in the social politics that are an intrinsic part of our corporate politics. Some positions are useless and ultimately require more politics to stay relevant. Architecture is such a position and you seem to be good at politics.
You don't even know how old I am, you don't even know what level of intelligence I consider myself to be. Yet you make a bunch of baseless comments hinting at my personal character. That is the extent of what you're trying to convey, an insult through and through yet subtle on many levels. Politics, the only essential skill needed to become an architect.
When did I say you can learn everything you need to know by reading some blog posts or Wikipedia? I never said this. I only said that you can do this for 'architecture' and that's why the job role 'software architect' is complete bullshit.
Now let's get back on topic. You disagree with me. You think architects know something about 'architecture' that is beyond Wikipedia and blog posts. Prove it. You think they have some ability that sets them apart from normal engineers. Tell me what that is and why there exists articles like this:
http://www.realfreemarket.org/blog/2012/09/13/never-trust-a-...
I don't want to see another irrelevant comment because that just tells me that you got absolutely nothing left. Prove the worth of a software architect.