If you could go back in time and learn about a certain topic or skill what would it be (assuming you'd be in the same profession you're in now). Please also mention what field you're in.
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#2Organic chemistry. I now write chemistry software for a living.
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#3Logarithms as practiced on the slide rule.
Latin.
Software dev and QA.
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#4I don't think it's ever to late to learn something. I'm kinda on the fence about learning / trying to get into theoretical science and physics. I find a lot of the space science stuff happening lately to be very interesting and I'd love to try to prove (for example) black holes exist (or don't)
currently a programmer / sys admin.
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#5UX / UI. Solid usability and design chops.
Dev / Ops at the moment.
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#6- DevOps
- Encrypt
- Programming
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#7 - business
- negotiation
- some basic undergrad chemistry & biologyRe: Ask HN: What do you wish you learned?
#8Logarithms as practiced on the slide rule. Latin. Software dev and QA.
I took latin in middle and high school. I can't honestly think of any benefit it has given to me.
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#9Logarithms as practiced on the slide rule. Latin. Software dev and QA.
I took latin in middle and high school. I can't honestly think of any benefit it has given to me.
That's really interesting. I would've thought it'd be useful trying to understand more complicated texts in college.
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#10Wanted to wait on my own response so as not to influence peoples' responses. I'm a software developer and I've recently been thinking that one of the skills that I'd like to improve on is writing. Never late to work on, but it would've been great to put a little more effort into it earlier in life.