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Post by greenie_beans »

codazoda wrote: post #166
greenie_beans wrote: post #163

how to be a better fiction writer. i wrote a novel and i'm revising it for the fourth time. i accidentally ripped off 'as i lay dying' by faulkner. i started writing my story about a funeral told in the first person present with multiple narrators and realized that faulkner had already done that. while writing it, i avoided reading him because i didn't want to rip him off more. but now i'm re-reading the book very cl…

I haven’t had success writing fiction just yet but I just read The Snowflake Method and I hope to give it a go. It’s a really interesting read. https://a.co/d/gJrLsyM This also got me interested in Creative Nonfiction and I’m reading about that now, although the Snowflake Method book is something else — a fiction story that explains a nonfiction subject.

i recommend george saunder's substack: https://georgesaunders.substack.com/

with the free tier, he answers questions from students and that's valuable alone. with the paid tier, you get to learn the mechanics of a short story from one of america's best living short story writers.

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Post by javier123454321 »

Jazz Guitar, after spending years listening to jazz, decided to start down the path of learning to play it in my thirties. I already played some guitar, but over the past year, I've learned so many things about theory, chord construction, inversions, phrasing, time feel, and have been doing a concerted effort in improving my aural skills to lift other players' music by ear and transcribe their playing.

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Post by rkwz »

1jreuben1 wrote: post #15

Rust, CUDA and JAX - I'm guessing one or more of these will be in increasing demand with a relatively high barrier of entry compared to other software tech

> relatively high barrier of entry compared to other software tech

Sorry, what do you mean by this?

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Post by SeriousM »

sn9 wrote: post #76
maroonblazer wrote: post #55

Drawing/sketching. Apropos of the other HN article on the elder mathematician who credits his success by studying the simple things until he understands them really, really well, I'm practicing drawing boxes in any/every orientation in 3D space. This includes drawing two boxes connected by a common edge - imagine a box with a lid the same size as the box itself, slightly opened. For me this is profoundly difficult to…

I don't know if you're literally using this or you are unaware but coincidentally using similar methods, but this site is highly recommended [0]. [0] https://drawabox.com/

Also recommended: https://www.ctrlpaint.com/

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Post by SeriousM »

niklasmtj wrote: post #134

The ins and outs of the Deno runtime. Since I want to build my first text/video course about it. On the one side it could be a cool side project where I can help people getting their hands dirty with Deno and follow my passion on teaching interesting topics to folks. On the other side I want to push a project of myself over the finish line and maybe make a dollar or two with it.

Where do you want to publish the course to?

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Post by unsungNovelty »

I am trying to learn Erlang. The idea is to write a CRUD app which is a multi-user PWA app completely without framework. For front end, HTML, CSS and JS with reefjs for reactivity (these are are things I already know).

The idea is to experiment and stress test with the idea of write once run forever to the max. See how far can I get. Any resource for Erlang will be much appreciated.

Currently using exercism and Joe's book of Programming for the concurrent world 2nd edition. I guess beginner topics are covered. More interested in advanced erlang topics for which resources seems hard to come by. Specifically related to security since I would want to know how to go about the security of the backend using erlang.

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Post by mystickphoenix »

As someone newly diagnosed with ADHD (and likely/suggested, but not formally-diagnosed ASD), I'm digging into both to understand how my experience differs from others. This includes things like strengths, weaknesses, the usual stuff, but I'm interested in the common ground between "neurodiverse" and "neurotypical" brains (talking in general terms here) as well as how both "sides" can better work together. Use strengths to fill in the weaknesses, that sort of thing. Eventually I may start writing some of this down more formally, but as of right now, I'm just a guy trying to understand his own brain.

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Post by mystickphoenix »

teecha wrote: post #165

How to communicate with people and get through negotiations and all of those tiny little conversations that happen day to day in our personal and professional lives with more success. Started with Difficult Conversations last year and it was a total game changer. It has been instrumental in my professional and personal life. If I was going to share two key points for anyone it'd be to remember to listen and that you…

If you haven't already, I'd add Nonviolent Communication to that already very good list!
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