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

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I'd like to learn to leverage collaboration and the societal politics of my field to help achieve bigger and more impactful projects. Being a loner is only going to get me so far, I've realized. (I'm a grad student.)

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

(you're welcome)

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

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post #4

I'd like to learn to leverage collaboration and the societal politics of my field to help achieve bigger and more impactful projects. Being a loner is only going to get me so far, I've realized. (I'm a grad student.)

Good call.

You can be the best developer in the world, in a job that leaves you alone and lets you write code, and you might get several times as much done as another developer. Or you can spend a little less time writing code and have a few productive meetings and discussions, resulting in far more development than you could ever do alone. And you'll still get to write plenty of code.

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

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No need for patronosing either.

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

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I want to learn compiler development. My goal is to get enough of an understanding to be able to work on other people's compilers, such as SBCL.

I'd like to:

-Build a lisp that targets LLVM IR

-Build an HDL out of lisp that can be compiled into a simulation, as well as be compiled to a netlist for synthesis.

-Build a testbench toolkit out of that same lisp.

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

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I'm coming 20-30 years late to the "biology is the future" mindset.

In my case, personal health has left me no choice.

Some poor medical advice and treatment, combined with my adversity to the whole topic -- yes, strong squeamishness combined with fear/observation that thinking about adverse events seemed (seems!) to instantiate them. That all has left me with a substantial health burden.

Meanwhile, in my experience the current U.S. health care system seems to be -- technological "miracles" aside -- making getting effective treatment ever more difficult.

So... As with everything else, it seems, you can't rely on expert consult -- even when you can afford it -- but rather have to learn and do -- or at lease prescribe and manage -- everything yourself.

So... biology. In other words, I need to belatedly read up on the owners manual. And find some hacks that help me.

As an aside, we're about to the point of molecular programming. So, maybe this will coincide with the current leading edge in technology, anyway.

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

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I want to learn compiler development. My goal is to get enough of an understanding to be able to work on other people's compilers, such as SBCL. I'd like to: -Build a lisp that targets LLVM IR -Build an HDL out of lisp that can be compiled into a simulation, as well as be compiled to a netlist for synthesis. -Build a testbench toolkit out of that same lisp.

I have that planned for a long time. I've been making progress in recursive thinking and thus compilation and interpretation last year (thanks to a prolog book). I may attempt the LLVM thing in 2017. This or a bootstrapped forth, x86 64 or maybe AARCH64.

Do you have a blog ?

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