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Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Any recommendations on learning them, e.g. tutorials?

Not helpful at all for learning, but I've found RegExper[1] is fantastic for visualizing existing expressions, particularly ones you haven't written but need to understand or edit. [1] http://www.regexper.com/

I like http://www.debuggex.com/

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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"Hacking", which has led me to start learning more about C, Assembly, and Networks.

Where did you start?

Started with Hacking, the Art of Exploitation. Finished, but realized I was in over my head. Taking CS50x through edx for C programming + a Udemy Assembly class. Ultimate goal is to make progress on https://microcorruption.com

I have a 9 month learning plan worked out with books, online courses, and other Hacking tutorials/projects.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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After interacting with a few lawyers I realized I am severely lacking in communication and people skills. Their emails were inviting but not over the top. My emails were either too curt or too verbose. When talking to people face to face, I also work on adding value without rambling. Breathing more helps a lot. And for fun I'm learning how to draw. Here is some of my work. http://www.redbubble.com/people/kelukelu htt…

How are you working on improving your written communication skills? I think that's something that I and others have lots of room for improvement in as well.

For writing, I am almost done with this book and it is great:

Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business by Roman and Raphaelson

Stresses clarity and writing how you talk.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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VHDL. I'm planning on making an FPV quadcopter using an FPGA + using analog signal transmission on a personal project.

Very cool. What tooling are you using? I've found the world of FPGA tools to be bewildering to the point that I've abandoned my projects and my Nexys3 languishes in a drawer.

I would suggest using myhdl (www.myhdl.org), and then plugging the verilog/vhdl it generates into your vendor's tools.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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I've finally decided that regular expressions are not witchcraft and that I need to learn how to use them.

Any recommendations on learning them, e.g. tutorials?

for JavaScript devs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

also http://overapi.com/regex

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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VHDL. I'm planning on making an FPV quadcopter using an FPGA + using analog signal transmission on a personal project.

Very cool. What tooling are you using? I've found the world of FPGA tools to be bewildering to the point that I've abandoned my projects and my Nexys3 languishes in a drawer.

It's still in the idea stages, why my original idea of sending an FPGA doing active video processing would be computationally and energy expensive, where transmitting a low-latency signal to a processing unit on the ground wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. I'm looking at a ZYNQ-7000 board because the free eBook by Xilinx looked very approachable to a newbie at hardware design. If optimized properly, I'd hope to be able to integrate the quadcopter controls onto a better fpga and be a single unit. It's gonna be an all-summer project.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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I've finally decided that regular expressions are not witchcraft and that I need to learn how to use them.

I spent an entire day trying to decipher how to replace spaces with tabs. Wish I had been better with regular expressions.

Have you looked at sed yet?

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you start?

Started with Hacking, the Art of Exploitation. Finished, but realized I was in over my head. Taking CS50x through edx for C programming + a Udemy Assembly class. Ultimate goal is to make progress on https://microcorruption.com I have a 9 month learning plan worked out with books, online courses, and other Hacking tutorials/projects.

I bought the first edition of it years ago and I realized I was in over my head too :(
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