Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:02 PM UTC

iamben wrote: post #77

wallflower wrote: post #71

Going to a gym two to three times a week for small group training sessions. In terms of investment, it is not as expensive as private training and it keeps you on track. The real investment is in you. Your most important asset is your ability to produce income. Having a healthier body helps maintain that ability. The damage that I do through typing is only barely counteracted by these training sessions. I don’t take…

I'll second this for but for any kind of exercise. If you're not disciplined enough (yet) to exercise by yourself, as the parent says, classes are a brilliant way to stick with it and keep motivated. I get to the gym pretty much every day before work. The benefits are huge - more energy, better concentration, and of course just looking and feeling better in general. Edit: for the deleted comment - I'm late 30s, not s…

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Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by yorwba » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:04 PM UTC

faitswulff wrote: post #73

1. Learning Chinese characters with Anki. After a decade out of practice, I realize I would have done a lot better in my college studies if I actually studied. Wild idea, I know. One thing that prevented me from memorizing characters was the idea that it wasn't worth doing. However, this passage from the Self-Regulated Learning paper [0] that circulated around HN convinced me otherwise: "We need to understand, too, t…

For making Chinese flashcards in Anki, I can recommend this addon https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3448800906 (Anki 2.0 only, for Anki 2.1 there's a fork https://github.com/luoliyan/chinese-support-redux )

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

faitswulff wrote: post #68

neya wrote: post #20

I'm going to say something out of the blue - Building speakers. Building speakers look complex from the outside, but are pretty rewarding once you know the basics (Thiele parameters, enclosure design and tuning). You can put together your own speaker with just a couple of parts from eBay or anywhere else on the internet really and sometimes can end up with really high quality boxes that can outperform much more expen…

Would the barrier to entry for making working speakers be significantly higher if the aux port goes away entirely?

If it went away entirely, as in also from laptops, desktops and Raspberry Pis, without adapters being available, maybe.

But you're not going to be driving a speaker with a phone anyways. You'll need an amplifier, and if the aux port goes away, the amp will likely have whatever-alternative-input-there-is.

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by idrios » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:16 PM UTC

h1d wrote: post #76

mrcnkoba wrote: post #28

Learning English. It opened up a whole new area of the internet that I was excluded from simply because I didn't know the language. There are communities that I can actively participate in and learn from.

I wouldn't have been the programmer I am now without learning English. Everything starts in English. Every other languages catch up after a few years.

What's your native language? A year ago I started learning Chinese and I'm wondering if there will ever be a day that it helps me be a better engineer or programmer.

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by glass_of_water » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:18 PM UTC

MarkArts wrote: post #43

Learning to make/compose music. I's very rewarding to listen to your own music, mostly because you make the stuff YOU like. And being able to play whats in your head on an instrument makes playing allot more fun. And there are a some extremly valuable lessons to be learned from spending hours a day practicing. 1) I learned how to practice efficiently (which made learning porgraming languages and university for me all…

How did you go about learning to compose?

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by murukesh_s » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:22 PM UTC

beautifulfreak wrote: post #31

Learning Photoshop. My photo restorations: http://imgur.com/a/uzUzP http://imgur.com/a/BuwKp http://imgur.com/a/q61eH http://imgur.com/a/1lp9O http://imgur.com/a/OyMWI http://imgur.com/a/iVhUq http://imgur.com/a/4zv43

It's basically close to painting :) good job!

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by newusertoday » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

emacs, it has paid so much of dividend over the time. Sometimes i regret not having adopted it earlier.

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by noblethrasher » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

mmirate wrote: post #84

Why is it necessary to truly avoid exploiting the other party, instead of merely maintaining for them an illusion that they're not being exploited?

Because doing so desensitizes you to the pain and suffering of others.

Maybe a society full of sociopaths can get along just fine, but I'd rather not run that experiment.

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by quadcore » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #6

Programming (I feel like that might be cheating on HN...) I started programming about 16 years ago (I think), when my Dad bought a basic introduction to HTML for himself, which I ended up "borrowing". I super geeky teenage life followed where I learned various languages, including Python, Delphi and an obscure language called RapidEuphoria (honest, that is a programming language, with some interesting features actual…

I'm not sure but your personal website may be down.

Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

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Post by pergadad » Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

mmirate wrote: post #84

Why is it necessary to truly avoid exploiting the other party, instead of merely maintaining for them an illusion that they're not being exploited?

Most people are happier if they know that they are actively contributing to the world or at least to others people's happiness. Whether that applies to you is a question you have to answer yourself.

I wouldn't want to live my life knowing that I'm trying to pull everyone and everything over the table and that i make others miserable wherever I go.

If you want to find a business reason: long term relationships and trust both are valuable and build future business and new connections. But, really, the first reason should be enough.