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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by ascii_homer » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 3:51 PM UTC

reallydontask wrote: post #547

nojvek wrote: post #540

How to raise a good human, be a good dad and husband. Relationships take a lot of commitment and effort. It took me a while to learn how to communicate effectively with my wife so we’re fighting problems and not each other. Babies really test your patience. They are hard to reason with so I have to keep my emotions in check and always be calm even if she is throwing a massive fit. But sometimes they really get your n…

> But sometimes they really get your nerves when they cry non-stop for half an hour. For no apparent reason ... sigh Are you using any resources that you'd care to share?

I found this useful: https://raisingchildren.net.au/ and Quebec has a guide for pregnancy to 2 years old: https://www.inspq.qc.ca/en/tiny-tot/consult-the-guide

For the first few months I found this book great: https://www.amazon.ca/Happiest-Baby-Block-Harvey-Karp/dp/055...

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by wigl » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

mikorym wrote: post #717

yoshyosh wrote: post #694

I'm learning how to make tacos starting with the tortilla. I'm originally from San Diego and have always missed Mexican food whenever I moved abroad. On a recent trip back to San Diego, I went to over a dozen Mexican shops to find particular flours to create tortillas from. I also went to Mexico twice just to find a specific brand of soft wheat flour. In total I think I experimented with atleast 5-6 different flours…

One trick for those that are not as advanced as you are: For whatever wheat you are using, add boiling water instead of cool water. I've found this trick worked (a few years ago now) for a couple of trials where I wanted to use just flour and water. I think the boiling water makes the flour more elastic.

Hot water encourages hydration of the flour and gluten development, resulting in a more elastic/homogeneous dough. IMHO, the hottest water from the tap should be good enough for that purpose.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by rmz » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

* Natural language processing (udacity nanodegree). * Spanish words (duolingo). * Random fields (reading random articles about it :-). * Anonymizing text (side project) * Photography (blogs, videos, and practice https://500px.com/la3lma)

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by timc3 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:00 PM UTC

I am learning Elixir and Phoenix. And to be honest I am not sure I like either. The lack of decent resources (I mainly use Python and JavaScript with some C#) so I am used to reading a lot of blog posts, I don’t really like the documentation and the answers in forums are over verbose. And then there is Ecto which gives me new respect for SQLAlchemy or even solutions in C#. Debugging is a bit rubbish as well and to top it off it’s not typed. Pattern matching is kinda cool though.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by whitehouse3 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:01 PM UTC

arvinsim wrote: post #437

whitehouse3 wrote: post #162

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I bought Omnisphere and a 25-key MIDI controller yesterday. I wanted for years to learn digital music production, but didn’t because I was busy. This quarantine gave me the chance to dedicate real time to it.

Any reason why you chose Omnisphere in particular?

I like those "Watch me make a beat" videos on YouTube. And the ones I enjoyed the most used Omnisphere for strings/pads.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by seneca » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

timc3 wrote: post #784

I am learning Elixir and Phoenix. And to be honest I am not sure I like either. The lack of decent resources (I mainly use Python and JavaScript with some C#) so I am used to reading a lot of blog posts, I don’t really like the documentation and the answers in forums are over verbose. And then there is Ecto which gives me new respect for SQLAlchemy or even solutions in C#. Debugging is a bit rubbish as well and to to…

The book "Programming Elixir" is by far the best resource I found for learning the language.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by wigl » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #69

I'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…

When you get around to milling the buckwheat, see if you can get some coarse ground flour from both the kernel and husk. With it you can make inaka (country style) soba, which is really quite special. Buckwheat makgeoli is also easy and tasty.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by whitehouse3 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

snarfy wrote: post #693

whitehouse3 wrote: post #162

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I bought Omnisphere and a 25-key MIDI controller yesterday. I wanted for years to learn digital music production, but didn’t because I was busy. This quarantine gave me the chance to dedicate real time to it.

What production software are you trying? I bought a seinberg audio interface that came with cubase ai, so I've been playing with that. Cubase has come a long way - I remember when it was new software. Even before Cubase I remember playing with trackers like fast tracker 2, so I also bought a copy of Renoise. If you are a programmer you might like making music with a tracker over a traditional DAW.

I bought Reaper after using its unlimited free version for years. My background is voiceover and podcast recording and Reaper is good for that. I'm sure it has limits but I haven't reached them yet.

It has a macro interface for scripting and many of their first-class plugins can bee configured with Javascript.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by kvimal13 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

Have started learning French language from duolingo.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by zikani_03 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

I'm trying to learn Blender for the umpteenth time. Years ago I prefered 3DS Max for 3D modelling and never put serious effort into learning Blender, looking to change that this year esp. with the recent UI/UX changes.

As far as programming is concerned; learning how to build Netty servers and navigating large open source codebases quickly.