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Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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38 - learned from wife that it's my fault my 2 year old pooed on the floor downstairs while I was in the shower upstairs because 2 year old was calling me even though wife was downstairs with 2 year old at the time.

And therefore you learned that wisdom can be most obscure.

Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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Age: 45

Last thing I learned? Err... well, on Friday I spent some time learning how to deploy tasks to Amazon ECS. I've also spent the last week or so doing a deep dive into OAuth and setting up a CAS server so I can use OAuth + Token Introspection for service-to-service authorization.

Additionally, I work with a quite diverse team (in terms of nationality / ethnicity) so I've been leaning on some co-workers to help me learn a few words of Portugese, Spanish, and Tamil here and there.

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31. In Java, this code can spin forever if a different thread changes this.done, and it's not a "volatile" member.

while(!this.done){ Thread.Sleep(1000); }

The more I learn about Java, the more I'm shocked at how mostly-identical it is to C#. Except C# is clearly superior in the details. I expected to find something java did better, but I'm coming up short.

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33. Most guitar tabs for The Beatles' Norwegian Wood are wrong -- they have the intro accurate, but it's not the same as the part played under the lyrics.

And it's not just that the song is played on a sitar -- even the sitar isn't mirroring the intro to the song through the lyrics. Look at, for example, this tab (https://www.guitartabsexplorer.com/beatles-Tabs/norwegian-wo...), which explicitly says "Use same guitar pattern under solo voice". Now listen to the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYs02z35F24), which doesn't use the same pattern under the voice. It's a good accompaniment, but it is just different.

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