Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by 00117 » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

- Dove head-first into the fundamentals of distributed systems, applying all that I learned to solutions for scalability issues at work.

- Realized that the secret to promotion is that it’s all about making your superiors look good. This brought on even greater realizations about society in general and individuals in my life.

- The importance of work/life balance and that the “life” portion must involve taking good care of yourself.

- The value of being kinder to all those I see regularly. It’s easy to drop some of the positive interactions with those we’re comfortable with.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by superasn » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 6:14 PM UTC

Learned Vuejs and oh my god it is the best thing that has happened for web development (at least to me) in a very long time.

Before this I used to like Angular 1.x but it was quirky with all the boilerplate code, DI stuff, etc and then I was completely feeling lost and upset with v2 upwards. A friend suggested I try Vue and it turned out to be everything that was missing in Angular 1 and so much better. I feel so happy working with it everyday now!

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by vontman » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

I've started learning Rust, and I have to say, it is the most satisfaction I ever felt from a programming language. Hoping I could do something useful with it someday :D

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by sgillen » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 8:09 PM UTC

Seriously upgraded my python skills. Switched almost everything I was using matlab for to python/C++ and it has been working out very well for me.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by hluska » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 10:24 PM UTC

baud147258 wrote: post #32

hluska wrote: post #2

I planned to learn French, but je ne speakez it bien. Hopefully 2019 is the year.

As a French native speaker, good luck.

Thank you very much. 2019 is my year!

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by pizza » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 11:54 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #34

pizza wrote: post #6

That Django is neither the mental megalith nor archaic project I thought it was. It's actually a joy to program with and extremely flexible, without getting to e.g. Java levels of verbosity. I've not learned close to all of it yet, and have relied upon more glue code from blog posts than I'd like to admit, but it's actually pretty nice, and definitely Pythonic! Which reminds me, the Java I knew from 6 or so years ago…

It's worth checking out Two Scoops of Django for some best practices and just understanding how to use the framework well.

Cool, thanks for the rec

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by mortivore » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 12:14 AM UTC

thiago_fm wrote: post #17

Improved my German considerably. Can definitely deal with any situation by now, but I still have much to improve. Also learned a lot of Elixir. Both are things which in the past year I've commited to learn. Learning is a constant process, next year I expect more of the same, but a higher mastery level! Also learned a decent amount of management things, better organization skills etc, but that I didn't plan for.

I'm curious, what kept you motivated to learn German? I've tried learning languages multiple times in the past, but keeping up with it has proved difficult because I have no use case.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by mortivore » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 12:19 AM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #31

Meta question: What do people expect to get from this thread?

I want to know about what people pursued this year. I'm also the sort of person that enjoys reading resumes, and making new years resolutions. I find seeing what other people do can inform my own actions.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by mortivore » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 12:21 AM UTC

I didn't really plan to learn about anything specific. However, I did learn that I enjoy keeping journals/notes about everything I'm doing/want to do.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by schappim » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:12 AM UTC

h1d wrote: post #26

Finally had the opportunity to use Rails after not liking fat frameworks for over 10 years and kept using my own framework instead and learnt I never actually needed it. It attracts non decent programmers and code is usually not great when you inherit a project which causes performance issues later on and things in Rails are just odd. Variables and methods are predefined with unnecessary English plural/singular rules…

I have to say I had the exact opposite (with the exception of performance).

After 10 years as a Ruby developer I had resisted working w/ Rails (always opting to use Sinatra).

This year I embraced Rails for a large project and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. The documentation is great and the speed at which you can knock out features is second to none.