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Post by elbear »

4thaccount wrote: post #555
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've played with Pharo a bit and have started to learn Red's ancestor "Rebol". All of these technologies are pretty great. I think Red will find that niche where it is super empowering to use and still fast enough with the Red/system dialect, multicore...etc.

Easily building cross-platform GUIs could be that niche.

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Post by somatic »

sebastienrocks wrote: post #526
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…

I would suggest you now focus your attention elsewhere. Wordpress is a great eco-system, but if you want to earn more, dive into Javascript with ES6. From there you can pick-up a UI framework (I would personally suggest Vue.js), and move onto exciting large-scale front-end applications, with a better pay-check. I've almost doubled my salary moving from a Wordpress developer to a front-end engineer in a years time.

If I may ask, where did you find a front-end job you liked?

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Post by madrafi »

throwaway89586 wrote: post #601
madrafi wrote: post #260

Polished my Golang skills and Python skills. Studied the Deep Learning Book Theory and toy examples with Keras and Torch. Some good ol C by implementing linear solvers. Understood the inner workings of bitcoin and started working on a better version of it. Most of all the month I spent pouring on Homomorphic Encryption literature was very useful. I also went trough some cryptography books (math from Koblitz book and…

> Understood the inner workings of bitcoin and started working on a better version of it. Said no altcoin developer ever.

Finally someone got that pun lol

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Post by wing328hk »

walrus1066 wrote: post #265
rockyj wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really liked Kotlin too. Which web framework do you recommend using with Kotlin (assuming you do webdev with Kotlin)?

Ktor, it's working really well, only downside is limited openAPI/swagger support, i.e. Schema first or code first code/schema generation.

Have you tried the `kotlin-server` generator in the OpenAPI Generator project (https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator)?

Disclosure: I'm the top contributor to OpenAPI Generator.

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Post by dominotw »

robertAngst wrote: post #519
wj wrote: post #273

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I'd love to hear about the finance app!

Thank you for the interest, would love to share the idea. I am considering its about 6 months from launching. I'll start with the story- Back when I was 18 and working at a clothing store, I asked my boss if I could be paid in NASDAQs instead of USD. The answer- No. I don't particularly like government currency, because the government prints more every year. However, the market grows at ~7%/yr. I still dreamed of get…

I have certain % of my USD salary get automatically invested in s&p index. Would getting paid in NSDQ be setting it to 100% ? also, Wouldn't the exchange rate of NSDQ constantly be fluctuating.

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Post by StevenForth »

Judea Pearl Causal Diagrams and analysis techniques. This will become central to a lot of AI and data analysis over the next decade. I also brushed up on Monte Carlo modelling, being able to understand and think in terms of uncertainty and risk and to have a probabilistic turn of thought is also important going forward.

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Post by thrownaway954 »

andrewstellman wrote: post #543
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...

thanks man!
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