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Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by komali2 »

kragen wrote: post #707
danenania wrote: post #243

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I understand the need to keep adding resistance, though as my sibling commenter says, I think you're understating the potential of pure bodyweight progressions to increase strength. Exercises like one arm push ups, one arm chin ups, hand stand push ups, planches, pistol squats, nordic curls, etc. can be equivalent to seriously heavy weights and there are plenty of options for gradually progressing toward them. Lots o…

What's the progression for push-ups? I was doing 1½ sets of ten wide push-ups on Friday (to failure, thus the ½) and today thought maybe I'd try a one-arm set. Couldn't do a single one, even on knees. Then I tried a set of narrow push-ups with the hands moved a bit footward, and could manage, like, four. On my knees. Is there a good guide to push-up progressions and resistance ratios?

There's a good subreddit on it, a quick google should get you there

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by stakkur »

Havoc wrote: post #631
stakkur wrote: post #491

Marcus Aurelius' Stoic idea of winning the morning. This means doing your best to make the most of the first part of the day: arise early and jump into doing the most important tasks of the day. Practice good habits. Then, as the day expands and becomes less in your control, you've 'won' the morning. I use 'win the morning!' almost as a mantra, and just that single, simple idea been life-changing.

I don't recall seeing that? Do you remember what chapter that is in?

Book 5 of Meditations.

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by Uptrenda »

Work on your math skills. Math is at the heart of everything, and the more techniques you know- the more tools you'll have in your arsenal to build and invent cool things.

Practically there are many business reasons why you would want to develop mathematical knowledge, but I'll list only one: most of the ground-breaking research requires high level math knowledge to understand and so much of the knowledge in academic papers would work as a viable startup business.

There is actually a staggering amount of knowledge locked away in papers that is just waiting for entrepreneurs to take the next steps and bring it to industry. But this tends to happen very slowly! Part of the reason is a lack of qualified and motivated people willing to execute. Since the researchers themselves are more focused on research and tend to move on after experiments and PoCs.

It's up to us to take that work and build products that solve real problems!

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by ravenstine »

kls wrote: post #670
ravenstine wrote: post #413

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It sounds like it's the people around you doing sous vide wrong and you're actually doing it correctly(by virtue of searing the steak). I've never heard anyone suggest eating a sous vide steak without searing it or using a torch to brown it, render the fat, etc. A sous vide steak should still taste at least halfway decent without searing because of the amount of salt and seasoning used in the process. Your viewpoint…

In culinary school we where taught that a steak does not touch the flame until it is room temperature. The reason for this is it shocks the steak and causes it to draw up, it takes longer to draw out the moisture in the surface and it allows some of the organic decay of the fat. Most restaurants use sous vide to short circuit this process as they can hold them in immersion below rare temp and then take them directly…

Thanks for the insight! I didn't think that letting a steak get to room temperature would make that big of a difference!

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Post by mandelbrotwurst »

dwild wrote: post #623
sharadov wrote: post #509

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We are becoming one trick ponies, only defined by the work that we do. There is something about cooking, doing things with your hands that is fundamental to the human experience. I cook, but I also like to order in, sometimes I just microwave stuff. It depends on your mood.

> There is something about cooking, doing things with your hands that is fundamental to the human experience. I agree that doing more has plenty of avantage, but is there something specifically about cooking? Have you ever sew piece of clothes that you regularly wear? Most people never did... yet for something that will be used for hundreds of hours, we pay 20$+ for it instead of taking a few hours to do it. Why are…

It's more than that.

You can live without clothes (at least in certain climates) - you can't live without eating.

It's not just tradition, it's more core to our survival.

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by darkjedi_emacs »

Could people suggest something from technical aspect as well? Something which is a bit more specific than being abstract like the below points:

Picking up somethings from what's the buzzwords these days: 1. Rust (ownership concept and immutability) 2. Haskell Functor, Monads, Monoids and applicatives 3. AI ML (Not sure about this field)

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by graeme »

y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #683
relativeadv wrote: post #586

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There is beauty to the simple goal of "I want to lift x amount one day." Instead of worrying yourself to death over whether you are "functional" or not. I've seen so many regulars at my gym over the years still doing the same stuff, still looking the same, still lifting the same, still doing kettlebell goblet squats and farmers walks and step-ups and whatever else have you. I realize what an elitist knob this makes m…

"I want to lift x amount one day" is not for everyone, it's what lead me to destroy my spine. I went years without any problems and I was in the best shape of my life, but I never thought about the level of compression my spine was taking on. I ended up having multiple bulging discs from C5-C7, a severe disc herniation in T8-T9 (which happened mid workout, very painful), L4-S1 herniations and L4-L5 breaking away chun…

Yikes. What sort of loads were you lifting, if I may ask? Would possibly help make the warning more concrete to those of us reading.

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Post by komali2 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #602
tashoecraft wrote: post #202

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Not fully true, body weight can make you gain lots of muscle, but you do need to add resistance. However, resistance doesn’t need to be weight or bands, but do a more difficult version of the exercise. Push ups are easy for you? Do planche pushups or diamond pushups. Squats easy for you? Try pistol squats.

I drank a lot of the Reddit/HN koolaid that you can't get big/ripped on bodyweight fitness until I moved into a new place with an amazing back patio will full sunlight all day where I felt bad exercising anywhere else. Much less under the fluorescent lighting of my local gym. For a year I've been exercising in my backyard with a podcast in my ears, maybe during a group phonecall for work, while thinking between progr…

Well, I'm curious to hear out your experience, do you think the amount of time you spent bodyweight training was equal to the amount of time someone would need to do resistance training for similar results?

This is why I chose resistance training - the gym is on my way to work and I am willing to spare about an hour and a half daily to fitness. My research indicated I'll get better results with that time at the gym lifting weights than body weight training.

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by komali2 »

falcolas wrote: post #422
komali2 wrote: post #388

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Scientists better get their hypotenuses straight before they take on my stomach But, what science?

Hypothesis: Sous vide followed by a sear results in an evenly cooked steak (regardless of thickness) with an awesome crust. Experimental results: drool Experiment status: success.

Experiment needs to be duplicated before accepted.

Materials needed: more steak

Timeline: now

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