Ask HN: What are you planning to learn in 2013? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jeshan » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

chuhnk wrote: post #2

I will try to learn: 1. A programming language. 2. A natural language. 3. Work/Life balance. 4. To enjoy my life.

I'm sure you know that there is a psychological effect behind the word 'try'. Don't use it when talking about personal goals, my friend!

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

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Post by peteforde » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

I'm doubling down on EmberJS. Paired with rails-api and active_model_serializers, it hits a sweet spot for me.

I'm planning on doing some substantial renovations in my home so I'm excited to learn more about how things are built.

Finally, I'm determined to learn how to cook well enough to impress people.

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

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Post by privyfire » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

1. pipe welding, all positions 2. yoga 3. fingerpicking

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

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Post by clavalle » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:49 PM UTC

Vert.x

I want to solidify my Scala skills with real world projects beyond testing. I have one about 3/4 done. I am interesting in seeing how it goes when it makes contact with the real world.

Marketing, marketing, marketing.

That should pretty much take up this next year, at least.

In my free time, I will try and get my guitar skills beyond 4 chord songs.

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

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Post by sswezey » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:49 PM UTC

mtrimpe wrote: post #16

1. Dvorak 2. Emacs 3. Clojure 4. Testing from a keyboard

Unless you are dead-set on dvorak, look into colemak. It is much easier to learn vs dvorak and keeps many common keys. Mac OS X and modern linux distros have it built in as well.

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

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Post by fieldforceapp » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

Learn commercial hardware design & distribution, especially UL (TUV?) certification.

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

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Post by xiaoma » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

1. Web development - go from dabbler to very competent

2. Voice - I'm about 1/3 the way through a huge singing course

3. Empathy - I want to get better at really putting myself in someone else's frame of mind.

4. Maybe pick up basic conversational skills in another human language, but this one's at the bottom because I know how much time is involved.

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

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Post by thepumpkin1979 » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

1. German 2. Rust 3. UX/Design

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

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Post by freiervogel » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

Cocos2d-x and CocosBuilder. For making relatively simple iOS games that I could port to Android and Windows, is there a better choice?

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

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Post by Chirael » Tue, Dec 25, 2012, 6:53 PM UTC

I want to learn/do more with Ruby/Rails, Django, CSS. Would like to dabble with R as a way of getting familiar with "data science" tools. Would love to learn Haskell and Clojure but don't really have any specific projects in mind for them, which is usually a big impediment to successfully learning something. Same thing with Node. Also interested in Go and think there's a little more of a chance of actually doing something useful with it (maybe for a case where performance with Python just isn't cutting it).