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Post by markovbling »

cossatot wrote: post #179
jchmbrln wrote: post #76

GIS. I've been using PostGIS a ton at work in the past year, and I've read _PostGIS In Action_[1], but I've really just scratched the surface. I want to play around with making my own projections. [1] https://www.manning.com/books/postgis-in-action-second-editi...

Desktop GUI Gis programs like QGIS are pretty fun and there are tons of resources for learning the basics. You can download elevation raster data and highway vector data for the area around your city or somewhere more topographically interesting and start making maps or just some armchair exploring. Topography and hillshade data are gorgeous. And it's pretty easy to play around with projections, especially changing p…

Check out d3.js - building a GIS app myself on top of d3 and it's really powerful and runs in the browser. Will have to do the GIS calcs server side and just use d3 to render but that plays really well with PostGIS...

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Post by sixdimensional »

sudshekhar wrote: post #313
emdowling wrote: post #171

Career: Transition from engineering to product management (starting mid-January so getting that one sorted early) Personal: Mastery in something non-computer related. I've spent my twenties building a career in software, have built a startup, etc but want to end my twenties and begin my thirties with something new to "master" (even though we can't ever fully master something). Increasingly fascinated by freediving an…

> Transition from engineering to product management Even I am considering such a move. Though for me it will be to Associate Product Management (if I do get through) from SDE. Any tips/advice you may have?

If you can afford it, take courses from Pragmatic Marketing. Also remember that product management means a lot more than just software. I found it hard to break into pure product management without that coursework and more "business" experience.

However, technical product management is a different story than "pure" product management, and for me, was a more logical transition from software engineering/dev.

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sudshekhar wrote: post #313
emdowling wrote: post #171

Career: Transition from engineering to product management (starting mid-January so getting that one sorted early) Personal: Mastery in something non-computer related. I've spent my twenties building a career in software, have built a startup, etc but want to end my twenties and begin my thirties with something new to "master" (even though we can't ever fully master something). Increasingly fascinated by freediving an…

> Transition from engineering to product management Even I am considering such a move. Though for me it will be to Associate Product Management (if I do get through) from SDE. Any tips/advice you may have?

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sudshekhar wrote: post #313
emdowling wrote: post #171

Career: Transition from engineering to product management (starting mid-January so getting that one sorted early) Personal: Mastery in something non-computer related. I've spent my twenties building a career in software, have built a startup, etc but want to end my twenties and begin my thirties with something new to "master" (even though we can't ever fully master something). Increasingly fascinated by freediving an…

> Transition from engineering to product management Even I am considering such a move. Though for me it will be to Associate Product Management (if I do get through) from SDE. Any tips/advice you may have?

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Post by xpil »

bencoder wrote: post #324

Just bought myself a piano, so I want to learn to play - to a beginner level - I'm aware that probably even after 5 years one is still essentially a "beginner", so it's a long road.

Great idea. It took me some 2 years to realize that piano wasn't my favourite way of making noise; on the other hand though it gave me a solid base on the theory of music (intervals, notation, cleffs etc) so that picking another instrument became much, much easier.

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Post by juiyout »

d7z wrote: post #293

Confidence - never thought it would be an issue when you're leading your own company. I quit a great job on the east coast in 2012, went to grad school and moved to Silicon Valley after graduation (2014) to work on my startup. I've been learning and building constantly for the past 4 years. I would rather my work speak for me, so I don't draw any attention to what I'm doing or to myself until I have great results to…

I was in the mindset of letting my work speak for me. Then I quickly learned why technologically-inferior products can often get more sales than other superior products in my field(b2b). Without accurate product presentation or inspiring sales effort, I can watch companies with clueless devs outbid my product with their all-powerful sales people.

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Post by antrion »

abhimskywalker wrote: post #263

Top 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.

I don't know what your knowledge of quantum computing is, but I'm a complete beginner and I found this article [0] a very good read to begin with.

[0]: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s...

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