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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

#213

Growth hacking. I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product[1] to businesses. I'd also like to explore content strategy and marketing. As a software developer joining a new 2-person startup, this is uncharted territory for me. Looking forward to the experience. [1] https://www.metriculator.com

My favorite growth resources are Brian's essays at http://www.coelevate.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

#214

I want to learn compiler development. My goal is to get enough of an understanding to be able to work on other people's compilers, such as SBCL. I'd like to: -Build a lisp that targets LLVM IR -Build an HDL out of lisp that can be compiled into a simulation, as well as be compiled to a netlist for synthesis. -Build a testbench toolkit out of that same lisp.

I have that planned for a long time. I've been making progress in recursive thinking and thus compilation and interpretation last year (thanks to a prolog book). I may attempt the LLVM thing in 2017. This or a bootstrapped forth, x86 64 or maybe AARCH64. Do you have a blog ?

What is the name of that "prolog book" ?

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I want to learn how to even start a side-project. I've been out of university since 2012 and have done basically nothing in my free time CS-related. Every time I start to even think about doing something, that "why are you working while on your free time" feeling comes up and I immediately do something else. Not sure if it means I really don't love programming and Computer Science after all (entirely possible) or if…

I have written a webapp in Go to sort photos, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/picsort

We had gone for a group outing, had million photos, less than 10 people in each photo, so didn't make sense to give the same photos to everyone, so wrote a basic app which would let me tag people and created eachone's folder and copied photo in it.

Starting a side project shouldn't be done by the goal of starting a side project, look around you, is there a manual process which you wish there would be a better way to do? sorting photos was one such way and I wrote an app for it. I did the same for a todo list manager, didn't have internet or any good todo list manager, so I wrote one and learned the Go language and the Vue.JS framework

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

#220

How to spend more time with my family, friends, work out, learn how to cook and less spend time plying with a new framework without a real business idea behind it.

This is me in a nutshell, that and get some early traction via hard labor on the marketing channels BEFORE code.
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