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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by djhworld »

nikivi wrote: post #20

All the topics I want to learn are in my Trello board. https://trello.com/b/cu32qF3q The cards that I assigned to myself I am learning now. Trello is great as by pressing Q I can only see the cards I have assigned to myself and focus in on learning them.

How do you consider a card 'done'?

I've experimented with Trello in the past for this, but I always just ended up with a massive list on the board and spent an unreasonable amount of time antagonising over when cards should be considered finished.

Might be easy for "learn how to do X", but more difficult for broad topics like "learn rust"

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by aprdm »

Past 6 months- 1 year for me was a lot about reading about leadership and how to be a better lead. Also played a bit with Rust.

I've started learning clojure a week ago and want to continue in this path of learning / build something cool with it.

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Post by z3t4 »

I'm reading a Rachel or Joel post only to realize I've already read it before. And realizing that entrepreneurship is mostly about luck and timing. And that you do not earn money by making a good product, you earn money by buying something then selling it at a higher prize. eg. hustling.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by tiborsaas »

dijit wrote: post #23
tiborsaas wrote: post #18

I've started Rust a few months ago, because it sounded interesting and distinct enough so I decided to add it to my tool belt. So far, I've completed a few chapters from the official book.

Oof, same, coming from python/Go and having some knowledge of C, I can say I love it. But I work with C++ developers who are adamantly opposed to taking a jump because rust is harder for them to grok (as they suggest that they have to unlearn patterns).

I'm coming from a PHP, JS, Python background. I've used strongly typed languages before, but not to a great extent.

Rust feels like a well designed language and ecosystem so far and I think it learned the lessons where other have failed.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by istoica »

Using OSX on a laptop, Linux at work and Windows while playing. Tempted switching back to Windows now because of WSL.

Using gstreamer, creating gstreamer custom filters, performing graph changes on the fly. Awesome and a joy.

WebAssembly as target(compiling C stuff with emscripten and then enjoying it in the browser).

Playing Stracraft II, high impact of rapid decisions, dealing with complexity as some kind of reflex. Started one year ago, never waste more than 15-20 minutes. I am more focused at work, keeping myself in the zone for longer periods.

Not necessary tech, but being more tolerant towards people in industry not driven by passion, but by salary and day to day life chores.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by anderspitman »

Most of my time this year has been with browser streaming, async Rust, and vanilla JS. I think the last has been the most useful. I highly recommend really learning the DOM. Implement your own client-side routing. Make a view framework. See if you can make an app without a bundler/build step. Or even without npm at all. It's fun.

In general, I think it's very valuable to have a deep understanding of your platform, even if you don't need all that information on the daily.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by brunosan »

I'm surprised there was no mention (yet!) to fast.ai here. I've decided to learn deep learning this year, after many failed tries with other approaches. Their framework (built over PyTorch), their course, and their community around it are simply the best I've found so far. Very much recommend to anyone who knows a bit of coding and wants to learn Deep Learning quickly and pragmatically.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by moritonal »

corodra wrote: post #2

I started to learn machine learning relatively seriously. But I've always had issues with frameworks where the team goes out of their way to be clever rather than straightforward. ML frameworks to me are plagued with that. And I hate python. A lot. Mostly because of white space formatting. So, I decided to make my own neural net in C#. For fun, it'll never be released. I spent a solid month learning anything and ever…

Ooh, could you write up a piece on this? Few people really know how to write speedy C# code!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Post by istoica »

ganonm wrote: post #40

I'm a software engineer who has until now mostly worked on web applications (backend and frontend). I have recently been learning Unity3D which has been immensely satisfying. The breadth and depth of skills needed to tackle projects in this field makes for some really interesting work. I am currently awaiting approval to sell an editor plugin on the Unity store which I spent some free time working on as a side projec…

Is there a gradual path on learning Unity ? I mean, what is it ? A visual editor of 3D worlds, but not Blender / 3D Max, together with code editor and C# ?

It looks more like Adobe/Macromedia Flash as IDE, used to like that very much back in the days, till flash died due to plugin need / proprietary / security.

Would still prefer to ship an app in a single file, that progressively streams, just as SWF used to do. Now, in the web area, all is utter crap, one billion files to download, CDNs, fallbacks, signatures.... argh!

Heck, would choose VB or Delphi as IDE for building apps in no time against all this React / Angular / WebComponents tech salad with no substance and ephemeral lifespan.

I am still able to compile pascal code from 1997 in Lazarus / FPC.

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