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

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Post by tmaly »

Zhyl wrote: post #8

Weirdly, perl. I found myself on a client site in a locked down environment with only the Windows version of GIT installed. Powershell disabled, no other programs allowed. I had to produce reports on the log files for this machine, but had to obfuscate information before taking it off the server. I discovered that git had bash installed quite early on, so my initial automation and reporting was based on UNIX pipeline…

My team has used Perl successfully for 13 years. We use modern Perl and the code is clean. In the process of switching new team members to Python as it is hard to hire people with Perl. I still think the meta capability in Perl is stronger than Python.

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

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Post by Dumblydorr »

In 2017, I was a copy editor and epidemiologist, but in 2018 I got a great full time opportunity to learn SQL and R on the job for a hospital. I've used these skills in real analyses of social work and food shortage amongst Veterans. In 2019, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of these two technologies and to add Linux and Python beginning skills to my knowledge. I also want to understand epidemiological theory, statistics, painting, Irish folk music, and piano technique.

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

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Post by jaabe »

closed wrote: post #79
jaabe wrote: post #57

My team started being more serious about our switching from .NET to a mix of Django, Flask and Vue.js this year, so I've been focusing on those. I personally played around with GraphQL (Apollo, Yoga and Graphene) for a while, but ultimately I didn't find a good use case for it in our setups and kind of left it at that. Our 2019 will be spent on building our AWS and Azure skills along with container setups, as we look…

When have you been using Django compared to Flask? I'm curious, since I often use Flask + vue, but haven't used Django much.

When we know the project is going to see a lot of end-users that'll need their own "profile" styled page and/or if we know we'll see a lot of database changes over time. Which hasn't been a lot of times yet, if I'm being honest.

One example that I can share, that would have also been a good Django candidate is our system for handling employee absence. When it launched it only let you report the two types of paid vacation we have, but being the public sector of Denmark, we actually have around 80 different types of legal absence, with various rules attached, and we knew we'd want to add more over time. We also knew every employee would need their own profile to keep track of their accounts, and we knew some managers would want to outsource the responsibility to secretaries and such. So that's what would be an obvious Django project to us, but it was build in .NET because that's what we were most comfortable with at the time.

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

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Post by technics256 »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #84

In 2017, I was a copy editor and epidemiologist, but in 2018 I got a great full time opportunity to learn SQL and R on the job for a hospital. I've used these skills in real analyses of social work and food shortage amongst Veterans. In 2019, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of these two technologies and to add Linux and Python beginning skills to my knowledge. I also want to understand epidemiological theory, s…

Curious where you got the data for social work and veterans food storage? Those are interesting datasets that i'd also like to look at.

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

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Post by aswanson »

robertAngst wrote: post #51

Real World Embedded Systems. Built a dishwasher that cleans and sets your dinner table. C++, Arduino, Electrical Engineering, and worked with a mechanical engineer on the design execution. Here is the story, skip to the bottom if you want to see the youtube video- Started this year working on a finance App, this one needed to be perfect. React Native, Laravel PHP mysql. The app is almost finished, and is worthy of a…

Impressive. And I say that as an experienced embedded guy.
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