Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by duiker101 » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #5

Mindfulness. JavaScript. How to have fun. Not necessarily in that order.

You might struggle mixing mindfulness and Javascript. Or Javascript and fun.

EDIT: yhea fine this was a bit insensitive and mostly a joke sorry, I wont delete as proof of my mistake. Javascript it's not that bad.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by DanBC » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

I want to learn to drive and get a UK driving licence.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by sergiotapia » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:38 PM UTC

I want to write a real, hand-holding example for using GenStage and Elixir for a real tangible feature.

The official documentation sucks and does nothing to illustrate how to use it in a real setting. I've tried to understand what it does and how it works about once a month for the past four months but I still don't get it.

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/

Hopefully I can understand it soon, and further cement my understanding by writing a real example for people to learn from. It sounds very powerful and useful but damned if I know how to use it lol.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by s_c_r » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:38 PM UTC

Vim. I'm a notepad++ and PHPStorm user but I've gotten curious about the potential productivity gains afforded by the vim power user functions.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by tixzdk » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:38 PM UTC

Pony! Seems like a very interesting language that doesn't get much exposure. Predictable GC, fine grained capabilities, actor model (concurrent by default), no deadlocks etc.

http://ponylang.org

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:39 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by handedness » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

Patience.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by Ocerge » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

I want to learn how to even start a side-project. I've been out of university since 2012 and have done basically nothing in my free time CS-related. Every time I start to even think about doing something, that "why are you working while on your free time" feeling comes up and I immediately do something else. Not sure if it means I really don't love programming and Computer Science after all (entirely possible) or if it means I'm just lazy. My goal is to find out one way or another.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by grzm » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:43 PM UTC

duiker101 wrote: post #11

petecooper wrote: post #5

Mindfulness. JavaScript. How to have fun. Not necessarily in that order.

You might struggle mixing mindfulness and Javascript. Or Javascript and fun. EDIT: yhea fine this was a bit insensitive and mostly a joke sorry, I wont delete as proof of my mistake. Javascript it's not that bad.

There's no need for this kind of uncivil, clichéd comment. Please be charitable when people are laying out their goals.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by feiss » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 10:43 PM UTC

How to balance family life and work