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Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#52its not too late to keep learning in 2018!
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#53Learned 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 hap…
Same here. Started off by trying to pick up React. Found React to be really complicated for a non-JS developer (I've done mostly server-side stuff). Someone suggested I try VueJS, tried it and had a much easier time.
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#54Ended up learning kotlin, advanced my python skills, acquired some basic ML knowledge, and journeyed further into the rabbit hole that is brazilian jiu jitsu.
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#55- 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 c…
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Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#56I decided to try my hand at hardware design. Just for fun, not profit. I expected to make modest progress because it has always seemed like some sort of dark art to me. I spent a small amount of money on some Chinese FPGA boards and I have been having a great time building things and doing experiments with logic gates instead of software.
Could you tell more. I get same "dark art" feeling when I think about hardware design. And simultaneously I want to play with them.
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#57Did not plan it as such, but trying to convert Perl one-liners to Ruby one-liners led to learning Ruby more than I expected. I tried my hand at translating "Think Python" to "Think Ruby" and by November, I even published a book on Ruby regular expressions.
For next year, I hope to continue learning various tools for text processing
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#58I decided to try my hand at hardware design. Just for fun, not profit. I expected to make modest progress because it has always seemed like some sort of dark art to me. I spent a small amount of money on some Chinese FPGA boards and I have been having a great time building things and doing experiments with logic gates instead of software.
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Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#59I decided to try my hand at hardware design. Just for fun, not profit. I expected to make modest progress because it has always seemed like some sort of dark art to me. I spent a small amount of money on some Chinese FPGA boards and I have been having a great time building things and doing experiments with logic gates instead of software.
Could you tell more. I get same "dark art" feeling when I think about hardware design. And simultaneously I want to play with them.
Honestly the hardest part I have encountered so far has been learning the lingo. So much of what I was reading early on went over my head because i didn't fully understand the terminology and I don't really have an electronics background. But with enough patience and reading it starts to become clearer. And there is so much material to learn from online.
The cheapo Chinese FPGA boards don't have much onboard except an LED or two, so you will need some components and a breadboard or two to start making stuff happen.
If you have any experience with micro-controllers like Arduino (IE: knowing how to connect to components on a breadboard), and are already familiar with Boolean Algebra and finite state machines, then you won't find the initial learning stages to be too challenging either.
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#60Learned Vue -> React
Go, Rails, Lambda/serverless, docker, java, python
Learned how to use dynamodb, google cloud datastore, bigquery, redshifts
I did this while working for startups which seen to use many different technology.
I work in ad tech because that's the only place i get to handle billion of clicks and challenges to deal with the traffic volume.