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Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by oeuviz »

unlinked_dll wrote: post #28

How to properly wrap cables. A/V and cable techs are super anal about this and it takes just a few minutes to learn, it will change your life. Cables should never be coiled in the same direction. It creates kinks when unwound and make it extremely likely for knots to form (ever leave your headphones in your pocket?). If a cable isn't being installed permanently it should be "wrapped" using a technique called "over-un…

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Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by maccard »

sauravs wrote: post #98
aeternum wrote: post #11

Regular expressions fall into this category. While they might take longer to master, you should know the basics after an hour. I've been surprised at how often people convert long lists line-by-line. You can sometimes take what was a multiple-hour task and complete it with a handful of cryptic characters.

agree...regular expression is like magic to me

I spent an hour learning the basics - wildcards, whitespace, escape symbols and Character ranges are enough for them to be useful.

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Post by joemccall86 »

If you are on a unix system with vim installed, fire up "vimtutor" and learn basic vim usage. At worst you become at least more productive on the de-facto editor installed on most unix systems. Personally I find myself incredibly more productive using vim over most other text editors.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

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Post by ken »

harrisonjackson wrote: post #16

CPR/Choking/First Aid course is probably close to an hour. How to change your own oil - probably lots of other money-saving home and auto DIY things... Speed reading and memory tricks can be a multiplier on learning other skills. How to use automation tools like Zapier and IFTTT - again, a force multiplier. You might be interested in this book https://www.amazon.com/First-20-Hours-Learn-Anything/dp/1591... - the auth…

> CPR/Choking/First Aid course is probably close to an hour.

What can you teach in only an hour? I work with some people who teach basic first aid, and the shortest course any of them does is 4.5 hours.

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Post by lozf »

aamederen wrote: post #64

Basics of presentation skills like - Using voice, body and mimics properly - Not putting lots of text on slides and just reading them - Using bullets instead of paragraphs - Tell a story and use a less formal more friendly style (not always but applies to majority of technical presentations) A nice video about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2pl1QbY3I

Good call, reminds me to mention Julian Treasure on How to speak so that people will want to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI

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Post by Fnoord »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #188

If you've been married for a while, learn who your spouse is now . (I mean in a good way, by taking an hour to rediscover what his/her hopes and dreams are, what interests they've gained / lost, etc.) He/she is probably a pretty different person than the one you married. It's easy to overlook that.

I'd say that applies to being together, not necessarily being married. Nowadays, we don't all live in a religious dominant society (anymore) where it is required or normal to marry.

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Post by wawhal »

sjapkee wrote: post #292
smaddox wrote: post #12

Mindfulness meditation. Sitting with your thoughts and emotions, experiencing them, and understanding them, rather than avoiding them or distracting yourself from them can have a dramatic effect on your life. And 10 minutes a day for a week can get you far enough to see some real benefits, like reduced stress and increased awareness of unhelpful thought patterns.

>Mindfulness meditation Absolutely useless thing which for some reason is shoved into each thread.

1. Have you tried mindfulness meditation? 2. Which type of mindfulness meditation have you tried? 3. Why do you think it is useless when most people find it useful? 4. With what goal did you try the meditation that it seemed useless?

You cannot throw a word "useless" without emphasising the "use".

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Post by Fnoord »

ralusek wrote: post #278
DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #188

If you've been married for a while, learn who your spouse is now . (I mean in a good way, by taking an hour to rediscover what his/her hopes and dreams are, what interests they've gained / lost, etc.) He/she is probably a pretty different person than the one you married. It's easy to overlook that.

The implication being that you just don't communicate between the time you first met and now?

Actually, if you are together, you might not have taken changes into account as they happen gradually. What OP meant is a means of an additional self-reflection. Which happens on top of current communication (or lack thereof).

It is also not just that the person you're with changes. You change as well, and you might not be aware of that. I mean, we all age. Society changes, too. For example, we're all running around with a PDA with a bunch of radios these days. We weren't 30 years ago.

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Post by fellow_human »

nothis wrote: post #382
fellow_human wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that other cultural practices are dismissed as mystic bullshit by default, until a white man introduces it. That makes it more trustworthy other white people.

Wow. Rest assured, I still consider these cultural practices mystic bullshit.

What cultural practices are you referring to? Every non-white cultural practice? That would be proving my point.

I never stated there was value in every non-western cultural practice, only that the value that actually does exists is easy to dismiss away as "superstitious beliefs" (or mystic bullshit) until one of the "in-group" convinces us otherwise. No doubt, it's a good thing science now backs up meditative benefits to an individual, but it shows a certain level of arrogance if everyones culture is bullshit or backwards until [insert popular science guy] has confirmed otherwise.

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