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

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Post by Raed667 »

xrjn wrote: post #57

I want to learn and play with LoRa. It's a 'IoT' technology that allows you to communicate over long distances using amateur (unlicensed) radio bands. Some of my friends have achieved distances of over 40km, and I'm curious to see what I can do with it. So far I've been able to get a ping between two modules over a 10m range. Next up I'd like to transmit some useful data over longer distances (temperature for example…

I have played with LoRa using Arduinos and an RPi that forwarded the transmissions to a web-service.

Going from the 'hello world' ping to data is an extremely easy step using the right library.

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Post by markx »

DigitalJack wrote: post #26

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.

Me too. I want to learn how to write a lisp, and I'll probably do it in Python.

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Post by ancarda »

sharp11 wrote: post #55
ancarda wrote: post #51

Spanish. But more generally, how to get into a routine for learning something. I have Duolingo and Memrise but I forget to open them every day.

Have to suggest my app: http://supercocoapp.com Would love to get your feedback. It's designed to give you practice actually using (speaking) Spanish. Totally different from Duolingo, Memrise, et al, which I find unbearably tedious.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

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Post by lj3 »

Webassembly, graphical design, sales and marketing. It's time to anti-fragile my income stream by making lots of side projects and getting some of them to make money. 12 months of 2017, 12 potential side projects.

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Post by rayalez »

_qbjt wrote: post #48

3D modeling and animation. I know this is a field that takes years to master but I'd love to be able to design my own characters and objects for games and video composites.

Great goal! I highly recommend to check out Nevercenter Silo for modeling, and Maya or Houdini for animation(Maya is the most popular, and Houdini is the most awesome).

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Post by developer2 »

My goal for 2017 is to fully figure out Docker.

The majority of information out there, including tutorials and blog articles about others' successful deployments, comes in the form of very high-level overviews. Everything I've found is an introduction to getting a basic docker instance running. There is very little useful information out there as to how to run a proper multi-host cluster.

There is core Docker. Tack on docker-machine, docker-compose, Swarm, and the dozens of 3rd-party cluster management abstractions such as Rancher - and the intensity of the headache never stops growing.

It sounds wonderful, but there is so much to learn to be able to tackle a full production stack. It's one thing to successfully launch a working cluster after hours of manual tinkering. It's a separate beast altogether to fully automate setting up a new cluster by issuing a single command, taking into account consistent configuration of: secure networking, persistent volumes with backups, deployment of container configuration and VCS codebases (ex: nginx vhosts and your code itself), etc.

My goal is to set up an entire project in such a way that there is a single suite of automation that can deploy all environments: development VM, staging, and production.

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Post by Razengan »

parthdesai wrote: post #25

Learn to have hobbies? Right now my life consists of Commute->Work->commute->gym->sleep. I actually don't look forward to weekends since there is nothing to occupy my mind.

Pick some books to read or gaming handhelds to play during the commute?

Once you like something you'll look forward to continuing it in peace on the weekends.

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