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Re: Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

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Post by gwbas1c »

is_true wrote: post #132
gwbas1c wrote: post #119

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (Michael E. Gerber) What it taught me is that effective organizations invest heavily in training newcomers how to do their jobs / processes. I see this everywhere; when I walk into a business and something's "just off," it's almost always because management is dropping the ball on training newcomers how to do their jobs. In my specific…

I think the problem is that most people managing organizations don't see the value in processes.

It's a cultural thing. I've seen it in California companies, but not in Massachusetts companies. (In MA, people will talk about SOPs all the time.)

> In my specific case, I was having trouble getting good bug reports,

I just had to avoid the word "process."

What I've also observed is that some people in the startup scene think processes are restrictive. That's usually a sign of a company / leader that's too immature to effectively manage through high growth. (You can't have exponential startup growth without processes.)

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Post by digianarchist »

luuuzeta wrote: post #148

I've been struggling with wrapping my head around asynchronous programming with callbacks, promises and async/await in JS, however I think it's finally clicking after watching these YouTube videos and creating a document where I explain these concepts as if I'm teaching them to someone else: * Philip Roberts's What the heck is the event loop anyway? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ * The Story of Asynchr…

I liked swyx's talk on React Hooks: Getting Closure on React Hooks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP1E-Y-xyo

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Post by digianarchist »

keepquestioning wrote: post #216
olalonde wrote: post #139

"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Helped me gain a more intuitive understanding of economics. On a side note, the man is a machine. He's been writing close to a book a year since the age of 80 (he's 92 now).

I started to read this book but it seems to be full of political bile. How does it compare to Economics in One Lesson?

A former Marxist that is now an ardent Republican. Pretty er...interesting political jump.

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Post by BillinghamJ »

Admittedly, it wasn't a book or course.

But I remember really struggling to get my head around Obj-C syntax - I was trying to learn iOS development, but I hadn't been exposed to atypical syntax before, so it was completely tripping me up.

I left it a couple of years and eventually came back to it. At some point, I came across this page, and it finally made sense: http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/

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Post by philip_roberts »

luuuzeta wrote: post #148

I've been struggling with wrapping my head around asynchronous programming with callbacks, promises and async/await in JS, however I think it's finally clicking after watching these YouTube videos and creating a document where I explain these concepts as if I'm teaching them to someone else: * Philip Roberts's What the heck is the event loop anyway? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ * The Story of Asynchr…

Thanks for the shout out! I'm still amazed how well that talk struck a nerve and it's a real kick seeing people getting something out of it 8 (!) years later.

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Post by tinco »

silent_cal wrote: post #339
tinco wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it not fit in this framework because of something they claim?

Because the framework supposes that the claims of each religion are basically the same, and Roman Catholicism explicitly rejects this.

Yes, that they reject the framework doesn't really matter does it?

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Post by cwmma »

fullmoon wrote: post #163
cwmma wrote: post #74

I had so much trouble with English grammar until I took Latin, then it all clicked and made sense. I say this as a native English speaker.

I’ve only be learning for a year or so — will the mapping of tenses from Latin to English ever make sense?

I've never had much of a problem with that, Latin tenses have the perfect vs imperfect which maps pretty well to the ING ending in English and then past/present/future which maps well

One issue is that sometimes what's easy to say on Latin is a bit of a mouthful to say in English in a literal translation. But that's more of a, well you wouldn't express that thought the same way in English.

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