I want to be able to get independent and start my own business. I love to write, which I have started slowly over the period of time.
All the best to everyone for their learning goals.
Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
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#262My goal is to learn enough tech to build an end to end web based application. Planning to learn python, then html/css, MySQL and move onto learning deployment with AWS.... let's see how it goes !
There's many options for Python but check out CherryPy. If you can write a class, and a few methods that return text (or HTML) you can write a full blown website with CherryPy. It maps methods to URLs.
Just look at HelloWorld. As for templating, I personally use Mako:
Mako is used by Reddit. A few months back I was hired to code a back-end API and I chose Python and CherryPy for the stack, never done as much web dev as I have since. Got a fully working app. Can't recommend much for MySQL, except either SQLAlchemy or PonyORM.
You can make a simple website / web service in CherryPy, and yes RESTful services can be made as well. I say start with basics. Even if you don't use CherryPy in the end, you can start testing it right away with the hello world example. Just don't forget to pip install cherrypy
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#263Top priority: How to be Happy.
And also some Kubernetes, Docker in more detail, explore rkt and CoreOS, perhaps also get into details of linux kernel and finish a custom build from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Get more depth into system security
If time permits, would love to learn more about Quantum Computing and explore if I can contribute in any way.
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#264I 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…
Do you want to know the secret to starting projects for yourself? Don't buy or download any software just write it yourself. I've got a huge movie collection on DVD. Rather then use Plex I made my own website to do the same thing. I have a lot of PDFs of books I want to read, made similar software to allow me to keep my position in my browser I wanted to study for a HAM license general exam do I made this: http://ham…
This is one reason I installed ReactOS. They make their own framework for the OS, and they haven't made too many apps, so my idea is to add in the things I need for myself.
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#265After watching La La Land, I finally settled on the instrument I'd dabbled with for years - piano. So I enrolled in a music theory course and I'm gonna learn to play the piano along with it.
I'm no great pianist, but I've got a pretty decent grasp of music theory. Let me know if you come up with any questions.
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Have you tried any of the online freelance market places, like toptal, upwork, peopleperhour..etc ?
I have, but with zero success. I've read awful things about Toptal and PeoplePerHour, so I didn't really go for them. Upwork seems to be filled with developers from various parts of Asia where the low cost of living allows them to bid way lower than what I would charge. The quality of work also seems pretty bad, from what I can tell (one-sentence descriptions, bad grammar, crazy low budgets, etc.). I've seen advice l…
I just wrote a book about this. I cover 15 channels for finding clients, and only a few of them involve in-person networking.
Here's the website. https://www.breakingintoconsulting.com We have a signup for a mailing list at the bottom of the page. If you sign up, you will get the chapter that explains the fifteen channels in-depth. And no, they aren't channels where you are forced to bid with super-low cost overseas labor.
I think the chapters on closing deals could be especially helpful for you. If you're seriously super broke, just email me and I'll hook you up. But I am planning on raising the book's price in 2017.
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#2671. Learn Rust
2. Read books
3. Family and work balance
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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 ?
What is the name of that "prolog book" ?
It's Ivan Bratko's book. I think he only wrote one about prolog.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ?
What is the name of that "prolog book" ?
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#270How to effectively market my consulting skills. I've been a web developer for over a decade now and I'm still not confident in my ability to bring in consistent work. The work comes, but I'd like to have more potential clients knocking. From what I can tell, the best way to achieve that is by consistently offering to help others with my skills. So I'm making it a point in the coming year to make blogging a part of my…
It's a matter of planting seeds. Always be prospecting. I go into depth in this in my book, https://www.breakingintoconsulting.com ...
Doing work for free and blogging are just two of the channels I name. I also provide thirteen other channels, with in-depth description, including copies of ads I posted that generated results. That information is free if you signup for the mailing list. And the book itself contains myriad details, including sales 101, closing techniques & so forth.