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Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
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Same here. As Italian living in The Netherlands the difference with my everyday meal and the Dutch sandwiches always leaves some awe. Honestly, cooking and eating healthy is not hard, saves money and tastes better.
As a Dutch person, I find it hard to believe your cooking is cheaper than a piece of bread with some cheese on it. Better tasing, for sure though.
My two sentences were disconnected actually.
1. Cooking causes awe in Dutch people 2. Eating healthy is cheaper that eating out, and easier that many may think.
BTW, you Dutch guys should stop putting butter on everything, eating hagelslag by the ton, and drinking yogurt instead of water. It might be cheap, but terribly unhealthy :).
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In many cities in the us eating out is as cheap as cooking. I'm not 100% certain but someone told me it's because you have to consider economies of scale for an eatery and real estate prices and commodity level revenue streams for the supermarket.
Provided the workers scoop deep, a chipotle bowl is generally two meals for me, especially if I get a tortilla on the side to build a burrito with the remnants later. Lunch and dinner for ~$7, breakfast can be a cliff bar for another buck. So ~$56 a week to eat out every day, not too bad if a $50 weekly grocery bill is the rule of thumb.
You barely get two dinners for $50 here in Sweden unless you go for fast food which isn't an option if you're going to be eating out every day. A typical lunch is at least $10.
If I'd eat out every day both lunch and dinner I'm going to pay roughly $800/month compared to my usual $300/month for groceries.
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What do you think the ‘somewhere inexpensive’ restaurant uses for ingredients and equipment?
The main problem with restaurants is the shitty vegetable oils they use. It's horrible for you. Unless they're a REALLY high end restaurant, they're using junk industrial seed oils for all of their cooking. That stuff is what causes obesity and heart disease. At home you can cook with butter, olive oil, etc. But I guarantee, most restaurants do not cook with high quality fats.
I have heard this a couple of places. Can you elaborate on why it's so bad and share a source or two.
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If everybody knows kubernetes what is the point to learn it? You can't stand out with this skill if you wouldn't do it professionally. Just to get familiar is enough. I would go with bash, sed, awk.
But not everyone knows Kubernetes. "You can't stand out with this skill if you wouldn't do it professionally." But there are an increasing number of opportunities to do it professionally? And every developer should have bash, sed, awk in their toolbox, anyways, So yes, at least get familiar with those tools and learn to recognize when they are a good fit for a problem you're trying to solve. But after that it can sti…
Most likely in such companies you would have a separate devops team, separate sre team and so on. How can you use the skill if it's completely separate set of responsibilities managed by other teams?
The only way to give impact in this area is to pivot from writing code to managing infrastructure (i.e. writing code in yaml, pun intended). So, back to the question, what is the point to learn kubernetes above basic acquaintance?
You can use this time to pursue other endeavours like prepare talk to the conference, learn the tools better which you use every day, automate some of your daily workflow (i.e. explore your code editor, write extension to your code editor to automate some actions and so on). This activities will yield better results in my opinion and you'll use this knowledge everyday instead of deep diving into kubernetes without actual opportunity to keep your skill up to date on long distance without going full into devops and becoming less competitive in your main trade.
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#796Well cooking and woodworking definitely won. May I suggest: keep a tidy desk, cupboard, storeroom, backyard? I can achieve the first one, definitively not the others.
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#797Marcus 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 highly recommend watching this lecture about Marcus Aurelius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5897dMWJiSM
Thank you for this
Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
#798Starting conversations with strangers. Squat and deadlift. Eating healthier. Doing something kind for someone else every day. Honesty. Listening to people you disagree with. Driving safer (this is the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis). Meditation.
Starting conversations with strangers. But how? I have anxiety and it's really difficult to talk to strangers. Edit:I would also like to mention. I talk very less reason being whenever I tell people honestly about my feelings. Later or sooner they use it against me.
Remember that one time that one random person struck up a conversation with you and it was awkward and you never saw each other again?
Me neither. People generally don’t remember these things.
Strike up a conversation and it doesn’t go well? It may feel like the world is falling apart at that moment, but you can rest assured it will be forgotten, and sooner rather than later. And you may get a sense of accomplishment just from going through the motions and doing it.
Strike up a conversation and maybe make a new friend? Awesome :)
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Agree. Cooking works out much better when in relationships. I am surprised BlueApron isn't doing well as they taught me how to cook, what to get, in a relatively simple instructions.
That may be part of why they aren't doing well. Once you know how to cook, you don't really need the training wheels any more, and the cost of their overhead is just that: extra cost. I have a hard time imagining them beating grocery stores / delivery long-term. Maybe if they get enough customers to get economies of scale so large they can offer meals cheaper than grocery stores, despite their extra overhead (meal pl…
I could tell this "mail order meal kit" industry was doomed when local groceries tried to hop on to the trend (selling the boxes in their stores, with very little overhead: no need to ship an insulated box across the country), and it didn't take off.
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It’s like coding but with none of the frustrations. You can’t get stuck midway because you have an incompatible version of carrots. All you need is ingredients and a good repertoire of recipes to draw from.
Huh, I feel the exact opposite- it's like coding with a bunch of extra frustrations like shopping and cleaning, and the possibility of messing up in an irreversible way (burning something, for example).
Now I want to be able to git reset --hard my kitchen.