Go to Japan and take an intensive japanese course. Yamasa Institute in Okazaki is a great school.
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#22Go to Japan and take an intensive japanese course. Yamasa Institute in Okazaki is a great school.
Why do you specify that one in particular? There are so many there. Don’t know how to separate good from the bad.
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#23Go to Japan and take an intensive japanese course. Yamasa Institute in Okazaki is a great school.
Why do you specify that one in particular? There are so many there. Don’t know how to separate good from the bad.
For culture and not for business learning Japanese at Nara makes more sense but I suppose you need relationships in Society to get connected. Japan being a part of the dishonest decadent West has a fair share of charlatan.
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#24Learn the information model at Twitter Elon M characterizes as a Rube Goldberg fractal machine.
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#25From my past 5 military deployments it’s not what I would learn. It’s what I would write. On my last deployment I created a new way to perform test automation in the browser that is dramatically faster and more simple than the big tools. I also refined a tiered security model for decentralization. On the deployment prior to that one I made some refinements to my diff application and created a data model for stacked l…
Thank you for your service. Out of curiosity, are you doing software stuff in the military or is this just a side hobby? If the former, I'm curious to learn about what kind of work you do. If the latter, why did you not go full time into software?
I am a signal officer. I have performed a different job on every deployment. The military is largely allergic to writing software so all the software I write are just side hustles on GitHub. I am part time military and full time software developer in the corporate world.
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#26Another language in intensive in-person classes.
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#27Re: Ask HN: What would you learn if you would have three to six months free time?
#28A larger corpus.
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#29Algebra, the real one, with groups and rings and so forth
Is this out of curiosity or it has practical benefit for you? I practical benefit then which?
Abstract algebra has a strong crossover into type theory, it you think of types as sets. Maybe not strictly useful while bashing out python code but it's nice to have an elegant mental model
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#30AWS Pro level Cert.
This is what I would do as well realistically.