Ask HN: What are you planning to learn in 2013?

#1

Post by anujkk » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 5:54 PM UTC

A new year is about to begin. What are you going to learn in this new year to improve yourself?

Here are few things I would like to learn in 2013 :

1. UI/UX Design : I'm a hacker who can make decent looking designs using css frameworks. I know I have a sense of design and I would like to take it to next level and become an expert designer.

2. A functional language : I don't know a single functional language. I would like to learn one. May be Haskell.

3. The art of selling : I am building a SAAS app for a niche and hopefully I will work hard this year to learn how to sell it to customers.

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Post by chuhnk » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

I will try to learn:

1. A programming language.

2. A natural language.

3. Work/Life balance.

4. To enjoy my life.

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#3

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

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Post by kedean » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:19 PM UTC

As someone currently pursuing a CS masters degree, I've decided I'm a little burnt out on theory and implementation, so I'm getting back into my other love: history. With 6 or 7 new books about ancient history, hopefully I can get my brain to stop obsessing over the asymptotic running time of my roomba, and how best to get c0 coverage with cat toys as a variable.

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Post by paulgb » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:22 PM UTC

1. Enough Spanish to be useful for travel

2. Salsa dance

3. Bayesian Statistics

4. Julia (julialang.org)

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#6

Post by kragniz » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:22 PM UTC

I feel I'm running the risk of repeating the standard HN response for this type of question, but here are my goals for this year:

* Greatly improve my functional programming

* Learn Japanese

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Post by bgdam » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:22 PM UTC

As somebody on the verge of shipping software for the very first time and trying to make some money off it, I'm hoping I learn a lot about running a business and dealing with customers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you planning to learn in 2013?

#8

Post by lucian303 » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

1) Microsoft Bob 2) OS/2 3) Apple Lisa

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#9

Post by bennny » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:28 PM UTC

Node.js

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#10

Post by hdra » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:30 PM UTC

1. Japanese, at least enough to navigate some Japanese websites 2. Some design sense. So that my weekend projects doesn't look like crap without bootstrap. 3. More maths. I am rather surprised how lacking my math is for doing some serious programming tasks. 4. Python. there are more, but i think i should focus to these,