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

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Post by scroot »

em-bee wrote: post #496
scroot wrote: post #488

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An operating system should be more like this

you are right! i didn't even think of that. i mean, i have been curious about lisp-machines and even smalltalk runnig directly on the machine, but i didn't look at my current setup in this way until you mentioned it. in fact, my home office is set up with dual monitors with gnome so that one monitor scrolls through gnome workspaces and the other is static with pharo maximized. then a few days ago i discovered a packa…

Check this out:

https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS

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

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Post by bsenftner »

I started using "Dear ImGui", the C++ "immediate mode" graphical user interface library. Which I like a lot. It's interesting because I'm one of the original Apple Mac beta developers from '83. I've been writing GUIs of every possible architecture thru my career. ImGui does a lot of things very well, in a very tight package; exposing capabilities usually only available in interpreted languages, the drudgery of UI construction is greatly diminished, while significantly simplifying the code.

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

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Post by andrewstellman »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #395

PHP and Wordpress Had to start over at the bottom after alcohol addiction destroyed me. Landed a job working with WordPress and started having quite a bit of with it. Naturally I just HAD to start tinkering and learned PHP to write plugins and manipulate the hell out of it. PHP isn't all that bad and is actually pretty easy to pick up. My only gripe with it is that quite a bit of the libraries aren't on par with othe…

This is such a great story. Congratulations on turning things around!

https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...

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

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Post by hnruss »

I learned some ES6 basics in 2018 and began the slow process of refactoring older JS to use it. I also swapped jshint for eslint, and chutzpah for karma. Oh and upgraded Bootstrap from 3 to 4. Hoping to have the chance to replace requirejs with something newer in 2019.

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

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Post by jherdman »

juhatl wrote: post #60

Elixir. The ecosystem has been steadily growing (and, more importantly, becoming more robust and mature) throughout 2018 with continuously improved tooling, libraries and frameworks. I'm excited for many of the upcoming things [1] in the Elixir world, and how those things can improve the way I build (web) software in 2019. [1] For one example, https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...

Elixir was definitely a highlight for me in 2018 too. I'm more than a bit fed up with Rails, so I'm hoping it'll be a good fit for me. I'm eager to see what I can pull off with more or less just the native stack.

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

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Post by em-bee »

scroot wrote: post #541
em-bee wrote: post #496

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you are right! i didn't even think of that. i mean, i have been curious about lisp-machines and even smalltalk runnig directly on the machine, but i didn't look at my current setup in this way until you mentioned it. in fact, my home office is set up with dual monitors with gnome so that one monitor scrolls through gnome workspaces and the other is static with pharo maximized. then a few days ago i discovered a packa…

Check this out: https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS

yup, that's the one i meant. or at least its predecessor. haven't checked on it for a while. very happy to see that this is still being worked on.

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

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Post by pimeys »

Dowwie wrote: post #32

Rust! :) I've been working full time with Rust this year for web development using postgres. The language and ecosystem have largely been sufficient for creating a robust platform. I have been working with the latest version of stable Rust all year and have never experienced breaking changes. Working with futures was unnecessarily difficult. Async/await is releasing next year, hopefully in Q1. This will simplify futu…

I've been using Rust professionally for web development almost four years now and on January I'll start a new job which allows me to continue with the language. It's been such a nice ecosystem to work with and I'm really happy it's getting more popular in the industry.

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

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Post by rahulnath »

I invested most of my time learning ML concepts. Learned and implemented SVM, decision trees, neural networks (CNN, RNN(lstm,gru),GAN), reinforcement learning(value iteration,Q learning) etc. Completed 3 ML courses in Coursera and read a few research papers.Also participated in a few kaggle competitions.The last few months , I spent learning react.

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

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Post by mminer »

Unreal Engine and C++. I've long worked with Unity, but as part of a new job I'm tasked with developing our Unreal plugin. Previously I only touched C++ on occasion, so I had a lot to learn — and have a lot to learn yet — of best practices, new features available in C++11, dealing with exceptions (Unreal disables them by default), and so forth. Likewise for Unreal. Like C++ itself, it's wonderfully powerful but sometimes painfully complex.

I also continued to deepen my understanding of databases and distributed systems. My favourite read this year was Designing Data-Intensive Applications which made me more familiar with the pros and cons of the various datastores and provided a better sense of the tradeoffs that each makes. It also gave me an appreciation for the guarantees that the battle-tested relational databases provide. One of my goals for 2019 is to improve my SQL knowledge — thus far any extra effort to understand it better has payed dividends.

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

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Post by elbear »

em-bee wrote: post #480
elbear wrote: post #157

I started learning Haskell again this year. And I finally got to work with it professionally. I'm also using PureScript in the same project, so it's really exciting. This year I also discovered R. I had to do a Python to R translation, so I got fairly familiar with R. I also discovered a few languages, but I haven't started learning them yet: red-lang and Pharo.

i started pharo a few years ago and finally found a killer app to make it worth the investment for me. red-lang is on my list to learn for quite some time now, but it probably won't happen until i find a useful application in red that i can use. same goes for haskell

What app did you find for Pharo?

What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.

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